Quote from Jordan Peterson's Video #2017

1:44 This is why YouTube is going to kill TV

4:35 I can't imagine anything we could possibly strive for in our society that would make it into hell faster than equality of outcome. Historical evidence for the pathology of that root is so strong. You have to be historically ignorant beyond belief or malevolent or resentful beyond comprehension in order to think that that's a good idea

5:44 Hard work

5:14 If you have real true freedom, you'll never have an equality of outcome

5:07 Even if you don't know the history but have a complete understanding of human beings, you would say - well, equality of outcome does not make sense

7:06 Law of nature - Pareto distribution with stars and cities

12:24 Title IX

14:10 If you took a random woman out of the population and a random man and you had to bet on who was more temperamentally aggressive, if you bet on the man you'd be right 60 percent of the time

14:41 Let's pick the one in a hundred most aggressive person from the random population. Well, they are all men. And that's why all the people in prison are men

15:08 Differences at the extreme are where the differences really start to manifest themselves. So you can have a small difference at the level of the average but out at the extremes it starts to make massive difference

15:08 Differences in interest between men and women are big

15:34 Men are more interested in things generally speaking and women are more interested in people

15:56 Almost all the people hyper focused on things are almost all men and all the people who are hyper focused on people are almost all women

17:26 Relatively small differences in the average can produce walloping differences at the extremes

17:48 For people who talk about gender differences

17:48 Unfortunately many of the people who are talking about things like gender differences they have no idea what they are talking about. They don't know the literature. They don't know there is a literature. They don't understand biology

24:46 Experiment on child chimpanzees

36:13 Equality of outcome is a powerfully anti-capitalistic. It's powerfully anti-western. Why you would let that into your company? It's a big mistake

42:53 What the people who are agitating for equality of outcome don't understand is that you have to cede so much power to the authorities to the government in order to ensure equality of outcome that a tyranny is inevitable

44:05 "Nobody can have anything that everyone else doesn't have at the same time" - that's the ultimate outcome of equality of outcome

45:02 Necessity of the left wing

46:50 Age - one of the big drivers of inequality

50:52 The best game to play

52:52 There's an idea in Christianity that you should pick up your goddamn cross and walk up the hill. Dramatically that's correct. That's the right answer. It's like you've got a heavy load of suffering to bear and a fair bit of it's going to be unjust. So, what are you going to do about it? Accept it voluntarily and try to transform as a consequence. That's the right answer

56:07 Power of negotiation

56:23 A fair bit of your political preference is determined by your biological temperament. It's strongly influenced

56:30 If you are a creative type, who is kind of disorderly, then you are likely to be on the liberal left end of the distribution. And if you are a non-creative type and orderly, then you tend to be on the right wing end of things

56:54 Liberals and the conservatives need each other

58:06 We need each other / we need to talk to each other

1:00:32 Path to becoming an individual

1:02:59 There is a hole in our culture where there should be a discussion about maturity, truth and responsibility. No one is talking about that

1:04:59 Take care

1:03:12 What should you do with your life?

1:08:08 You should be a monster, an absolute monster and then you should learn how to control it

1:07:32 Those who have swords and know how to use them but keep them sheathed will inherit the world

1:07:50 You should be a monster!

1:08:12 It's better to be a warrior in a garden then a gardener in a war

1:09:52 One definition of a winner is someone who never let losing stop them

1:08:58 Benefits of martial arts

1:10:18 Life is not a game, it's a series of games. And the right ethic is to be the winner of the series of games. And part of that means that you have to learn how to be a good looser because you are not going to win every single game

1:10:31 Losing is important

1:12:07 To be a winner...

1:12:40 You want to have a life that's so engaging that you think despite the fact that I am limited and that we are mortal and that life is tragedy and there is evil in the world, despite all that this is worth doing

1:13:47 In order to be happy you have to feed those things

1:15:19 It's a stupid game to betray your future self to gratify your present self

1:17:09 Confront chaos voluntarily Establish and revivify order Constrain malevolence That's a good three-part for life

1:17:41 It's not like what's coming isn't dangerous, it's dangerous, but your best bet is to be dancing on your feet and ready for it, pay attention and be awake

1:18:45 Speak the truth because your life turns out better if you speak the truth

1:20:08 If you tell the truth, you transform the potential of being into a habitable actuality

1:18:20 How do you make the world better?

1:22:25 You should treat yourself as if you are valuable, especially in potential. But you should concentrate on who you should become, especially if you are young

1:22:49 You should understand how much potential there is within you to set that straight and then you should do everything you can to manifest that in the world and then it will set it straight

1:23:18 No matter how bad your situation is, if you stand up and face it, with a noble vision, with discipline and intent, you can go far farther to overcoming it than you can imagine. And that's the principle upon which you should predicate your behavior

1:24:01 Truthful conversations redeem people

1:23:58 We know two things in clinical psychology

1:24:44 If you are afraid of talking in front of a group

1:25:23 If you confront the world forthrightly, if you speak the truth and you expose yourself courageously to those things that you are afraid of then your life will improve and so will the life of people around you

1:25:42 Go out there, find the dragon, confront it. It's a dragon, it might eat you, it's dangerous, but it's worse to cower at home and wait for it to come and devour you. Go out there! Confront it! Get the gold! Share it with the community

1:27:16 It's painful to understand how much of what you are doing is not productive

1:27:31 Quit wasting time

1:29:20 Reasons of procrastination and depression

1:30:47 If you are not a disciplined person it's uncomfortable, it's going to be painful, it's frustrating... You have to force yourself into this things. It's a muscle that has to be developed. These patterns have to be developed in your mindset. Incrementally

1:31:14 Clinical psychologists don't stick with high level abstractions, especially the behaviors, they are really practical

1:34:24 Hell is a real place

1:35:24 There is evil in the world of all sorts and some of it's the evil in other people. And some of it is the evil in your brother's heart. But part of it that you can really do something about that's the malevolence in your own heart. You can actually do something about that and that's actually way more useful than you think. Because if you can face it in you, then you start to understand it and that also makes you strong enough to identify it and to fight it when you see it in the external world. Plus you don't do any harm

1:36:21 Stop saying things that make you weak! Stop telling lies that you know to be lies! Stop doing things you know to be useless and counterproductive! Aim high! Adopt some responsibility and then see what the hell happens!

1:37:04 You are much more inclined to let other people live their lives if you are living your life in a satisfactory manner. That's exactly it

1:38:01 How positive monster is?

1:38:16 What does "no" mean?

1:40:17 You want to lay your life out so that it's providing you what you need to not be bitter and to work for your best interests and for the interests of everyone else

1:40:02 You need to organize your family with a certain amount of discipline and a certain amount of structure so that you get to do what you want, so that you are happy to have your kids around, so that you won't take revenge on them

1:47:40 The thing that sustains people through life really is the lifting of a worthwhile burden. We are evolved to be useful to the people around us

1:48:06 The world is full of darkness. Each of us have a little bit of light. If we release that light, if we shine properly... The world is a lesser place if you don't reveal from within yourself what you have to reveal

1:48:30 If you are not everything you could be more people will die, more people will suffer, more evil will be unconstrained, more tyranny will reign, more chaos will remain...

1:48:52 Your family is more messed up than it could be, if you were less messed up than you are. So if you just got your act together like ten percent more your family would be one percent better. Do it!

1:49:48 When you do something that you should not do, it's worse than you think and when you do something that you should do, it's better than you think

1:50:01 It's not that easy to cleanup your room. You want your room to be set up so that when you walk in there it tells you to be better than you generally are. It's organized, it has got direction, everything is in its place. You try to do that in your chaotic household

1:51:20 Everything around you is full of potential. Everything! Maybe more potential than you could ever possibly utilize

1:51:28 Maybe all you have is this little rat hole of a room in some run-down place in the world. Fix it up! There is more there than you think. See what happens if you fix it up. And you'll fix yourself up simultaneously because you have to get disciplined in order to fix up the room. Then you have a fixed-up room and you will be a more fixed-up person. All hell will break loose as a consequence of that

1:53:19 Rippling effect on the things around you

1:52:11 "I am fighting with my kid"

1:56:48 Archetypal stories have power

1:00:33 There is more to you than you think, there is more than enough potential to go around. There is definite suffering and malevolence in the world. We could fix it. You haven't got anything better to do

2:00:47 We are not going to run out of potential

2:01:12 You are not living up to your potential

2:01:38 What would happen if we stop making the world worse?

2:02:00 Aim at heaven!

2:03:39 How to monetize social justice warriors?

2:08:02 TV is dying / Television compared to YouTube

1:12:01 Whatever they are, ignorant superstition is not a right category

2:10:42 Different way of lecturing

2:18:12 Reason of becoming overweight

2:21:09 Power of lecturing online

2:22:35 Fun fact about YouTube / YouTube is a university

2:24:10 Best way of writing books

2:27:12 Best way of writing books