Quote from Jordan Peterson's Video #1980

3:45 Post modernism

14:22 There is something extraordinarily dangerous about having people revert to identification with their racial identity. It's really not a good thing

16:00 Something can have evolved as a virtue in some circumstances and still be of the type that if magnified beyond its proper limits becomes pathological

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 pathogens there's a real possibility that you and everyone you know are going to be dead in no time flat

18:48 Disgust sensitivity is associated with orderliness and you need order in a society in order to maintain it and the Germans are very orderly and that was actually a canonical part of their civilization and part of actually what makes them great and powerful

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 to be disagreeable. Because you have to go to your boss and say - give me some bloody money or something you don't like will happen to you

43:22 Agreeable people overall make less money in the same positions and it's because they don't negotiate on their own behalf very well

50:18 Get your act together! Have a vision! Straighten our your life! Say what you think! Stay away from the ideological idiocies and simplicity and oversimplifications and try to put yourself together!

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 position to be tormented by a problem, you are not going to put in time and effort to take the risk necessary to be creative

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 catastrophes of life but if you keep yourself morally oriented and you make the right sacrifices then you can transcend the catastrophe of being and prevail

1:06:36 "Let's just destroy the past" - No! That would be like saying well you don't need a body anymore, because your body is the collected wisdom of the evolutionary process across three and a half billion years

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 order. That works for every single environment for every person

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 interpretation is unbelievably constrained and I think that constraint system is what we regard as ethics

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 nihilistic. And that's not good because people can't exist without a purpose

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 consideration

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 if you take the ten composers and you take a thousand of their songs, thirty of those songs which is the square root of a thousand roughly speaking are played fifty percent of the time

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

1:35:44 When one good thing happens to you it makes you a little more powerful and attractive and so that fractionally increases the possibility that another good thing will happen to you

1:36:49 If you put more effort and more time and focus into your work whatever it would be whether it's a podcast or your YouTube videos or whatever if people enjoy it they gravitate towards it and then over time it exponentially increases the amount of people that are exposed to it

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

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 get some more

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 untrammeled space so that they can innovate

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 the market but to leave it alone completely means that it wanders randomly through an indeterminate landscape

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 competitive landscape with a correlation of about 0.6

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