Quote from Jordan Peterson's Video #1965

3:45 Post modernism

14:22 There is something extraordinarily dangerous about having people revert to identification with their...

16:00 Something can have evolved as a virtue in some circumstances and still be of the type that if...

16:21 Your political belief is strongly determined by your temperament

16:51 Orderliness is associated with sensitivity to disgust

17:52 If you are a group of isolated humans and you meet another group of isolated humans and you trade...

18:48 Disgust sensitivity is associated with orderliness and you need order in a society in order to...

21:23 Could you be a concentration camp guard?

40:12 On average women are more agreeable than men

40:59 Agreeable people don't make as much money and the reason for that is to make money you actually have...

43:22 Agreeable people overall make less money in the same positions and it's because they don't negotiate...

50:18 Get your act together! Have a vision! Straighten our your life! Say what you think! Stay away...

50:39 Well-developed individual is the antidote to the tyranny of society and biology

51:08 Many people don't want to bear the responsibility of developing themselves as individuals

52:00 Move forward courageously!

55:06 If you are going to be creative it's because you are tormented by a problem. If you are not in a...

57:32 Bible is the documentation of the emergence of the idea of the divine individual

59:38 Get the hell out of where you are safe into what you don't know. You are going to find the...

1:06:36 "Let's just destroy the past" - No! That would be like saying well you don't need a body anymore,...

1:07:07 Your moral duty is to realize the archetype in the confines of your own life

1:09:44 It's extremely useful to represent the phenomenology of your experience as a domain of chaos and...

1:09:56 Your task between domain of order and domain of chaos

1:10:33 The point of maximum proper being is right at the center of the border between chaos and order

1:15:30 Truth and objective truth

1:24:01 If you operate according to the wisdom principle

1:26:01 The landscape of interpretation is almost infinite but the landscape of applicable functional...

1:27:24 People can't exist without a purpose

1:27:15 Post modernism is a dead end from the perspective of applicable wisdom. It leaves you bereft and...

1:29:52 You can't be post modernist and Marxist at the same time

1:32:59 The square root of the number of people under consideration have half of whatever it is that's under...

1:32:26 Pareto distribution in production

1:32:54 If you have ten thousand people, a hundred of them have half the money

1:33:06 If you took a hundred classical composers ten of them produce half the music that's played. And then...

1:33:31 To those who have everything more will be given and from those who have nothing everything will be...

1:35:44 When one good thing happens to you it makes you a little more powerful and attractive and so that...

1:36:49 If you put more effort and more time and focus into your work whatever it would be whether it's a...

1:37:40 If you let a monetary system run, all the money ends up in the hands of a very small number of...

1:38:31 Biggest predictors of success

1:38:40 Smart people who work hard are disproportionately likely to succeed

1:39:11 If you don't have any money, it's really hard to get some. Once you have some, it's not so hard to...

1:40:51 Motivation driven by necessity

1:45:54 In order for society to progress you have to allow the individual to compete in a relatively...

1:46:27 Economic inequality drives crime

1:48:47 Men who are men don't need money, they need function

1:48:23 Human beings need to accept social and individual responsibility

1:48:58 Not every job is for everyone

1:54:53 The reason that some people have more than others

2:04:53 University is actually not a business. It's like a church is not a business

2:06:16 To direct the market means to impose the heavy hand of the state and it's potential pathologies on...

2:08:38 Difference between intelligence and conscientiousness

2:09:20 If you have good measures of conscientiousness and IQ, you can predict someone's success in the...

2:13:56 Twins IQ score in adopted out families

2:23:28 A bunch of things that you can't say about Hitler

2:29:47 White lies and black truths

2:39:26 You can be anti radical left without falling all the way into the far right