Matthew principle - Jordan Peterson

5:44 Technological revolution - online video and audio

10:12 I do believe that especially for the radical leftist types the whole notion of free speech among individuals is not only anathema but also something that is not possible within their framework of reference

10:37 If you are radically left and you are playing the identity politics game there is actually no such thing as free speech because you are only the mouthpiece of your group whether you know it or not

12:02 Mainstream media TV television dies

16:01 Equality of outcome is an absolutely deadly doctrine. Equity doctrine is at the top of the list of radical left mistakes

17:51 I certainly believe that there is space and necessity for a constant dialogue between the left and the right

18:46 No matter what you are acting out some people are way better at it than others. Doesn't matter if it's basketball or hockey or plumbing or law it doesn't matter. As soon as there is something valuable and you are doing it collectively there is a hierarchy

18:46 Left and right wings positions about hierarchy

18:04 Hierarchy is inevitable

33:34 The distribution of the idea of individual sovereignty and property rights and free market economies out into the non-western world is making the non-western world rich really really really fast

33:50 Between 2000 and 2012 the rate of absolute poverty in the world fell by half. It was the fastest period of economic development in human history

35:25 You have to pursue things of value. If you do it with other people cooperatively and competitively, then you are going to produce differential outcome because people will be differently good at it

36:45 One way to not do very well in any hierarchy is to have a low IQ. If you have an IQ of less than 85 it's hard for you to read well enough to follow instructions. that's about 10% of the population. Might even be higher than that

37:12 Low IQ is good predictor of poverty

37:33 Hierarchies are complex tools to attain necessary goals but they dispossess people

40:42 "everything you do dear is okay" - that's the terrible devouring mother from a psychoanalytic perspective. No! It's not okay!

41:59 Life is not a game, even a game is not a game. Because most of the time game is the beginning of a series of games. Let's say that you're on a soccer team. Winning a championship and winning a game are not the same thing. If you want to win a game the best thing to do is to let your star player make all the moves. But if you want to win a championship maybe the best thing is for your star player to do everything he or she possibly can to develop all the other team members. That's a different strategy and the reason it's different is because it iterates across time

42:41 What you should not tell your kid after he loses the championship game

43:55 Life is not a championship. Life is a whole bunch of championships. It's a whole sequence of them

46:36 You're not going to score on every shot. It doesn't mean you shouldn't take the shots. It doesn't mean you shouldn't try to hit the goal. But part of being able to continue to take shots is to have the strength of character to tolerate the fact that in that instance you weren't on top

46:51 The response is much more negative from the fans if you lose a fight and complain about it. It's ruthless because they understand that you've made a huge character error

48:27 The great athlete and the great person is not only someone who's exceptionally skilled at what they do but who's trying to expand their skills at all times and the attempt to expand their skills at all times is even more important than the fact that they're great to begin with because the trajectory is so important

48:09 What does the person who loses something important with grace do?

49:26 If you lost and blame referees

52:18 Victory is really the victory over the lesser you

53:09 Who should you defeat?

53:25 The question is - who should you defeat in the final analysis? The answer is - you should defeat your former self. You should be constantly trying to do that. And you are the right control for yourself to because you're the one who's had all your advantages and disadvantages. So if you want to compete fairly with someone then you should be competing with you

53:38 If you want to compete fairly with someone then you should be competing with you

53:49 If you are improving yourself then what you are doing is competing with your lesser self

53:54 What is lesser self?

54:19 What is personal responsibility?

54:28 Could you be slightly better tomorrow than you're currently flawed self?

55:17 What's the right way of being in the world?

55:49 Things are tragic and difficult but there's always some stupid thing that you could do or someone else could do that could make it even worse than it has to be. So, that's life

56:03 Tragedy combined with betrayal and malevolence makes life even worse. Especially if it's self induced. You need something to set against that so you don't get bitter and resentful. What do you set against that? Doing something worthwhile!

56:19 What's the best thing you can do?

56:39 Where is the meaning to be found?

59:13 How to prepare for the flood?

1:01:26 Your best strategic position is how am I insufficient and how can I rectify that. That's what you've got. And the thing is you are insufficient and you could rectify it. Both of those are within your grasp if you aim low enough

1:01:44 Aim low enough!

1:04:32 Matthew principle

1:04:55 Incremental steps to success

1:05:20 Results of watching Jordan Peterson's lectures

1:08:53 Are you okay the way you are?

1:09:48 You could be way better! You could be incompatibly better across multiple dimensions and in pursuing that better that's where you'll find the meaning in your life and that would give you the antidote to the suffering

1:11:32 Meta rule - you have to discipline yourself

1:11:49 I don't know what to do

1:12:33 Be honest with yourself about what you are doing

1:13:30 You have to face what you don't want to face in order to fix it

1:13:55 If you know that you're the one that can transcend your problems most fundamentally then you have the faith that would enable you to take stock of who you are

1:15:35 No one teaches kids these things in school

1:16:45 Why write?

1:16:54 When writing an essay pick a topic that matters to you

1:17:16 Something that matters effects how you make decisions in your life

1:17:43 How to write a good essay?

1:18:18 How do you know when you are incrementally self improving?

1:19:00 What's the antidote to the tragedy and malevolence of life?

1:19:30 Where is the meaning?

1:19:56 When are you sick of yourself?

1:20:43 Emotional story about one of the students

1:23:19 Deep online discussions with modern technologies

1:24:38 The fundamental measurement of unit is the individual and the fundamental task of the individual is to engage in the process of humble self-improvement

1:24:58 If enough people take responsibility for getting their individual life's together then we'll get wise enough so we won't let this process of political polarization put us back to the same places that we went so many times in the 20th century. I don't see another antidote for it. It's not political, it's ethical

1:25:26 Joe Rogan about Jordan Peterson

1:28:59 Your house needs a lot of work man. There's a lot of rot in the floorboards. The plumbing is leaking. The water's coming in. You're not the sage and Saint you think you are. There's so much work you have to do on yourself that it would damn near kill you to take a look at it, to do everything you possibly can

1:30:03 Noisy journalists generally driven by a very radical leftists progressive agenda

1:33:40 You are a young man and all the women are rejecting you. Who's got the problem? - It's not all the women, that's a bad road to go down. If all the women are rejecting you, it's you!

1:36:21 Women outnumber men so the men hypothetically have more sexual opportunity but that's not what happens. What happens is that a small minority of men have all the sexual opportunity, a fairly large minority of men don't. The women are not happy because they can't find a committed relationship. It's bad for most of the men and the men who have all the sexual opportunity gets cynical

1:34:03 Solution to the relationship between men and women fundamentally is monogamous social norms

1:34:34 To the degree that we deviate monogamy we tilt towards a more violent society

1:34:54 polygamous society

1:37:47 I'm not in favor of unbridled hierarches. The proclivity of a hierarchy is that all the spoils go to the person at the top and that can destabilize the whole structure. We have to have a dialogue about how to rectify that

1:39:38 The problem with hierarchies is that they can get too steep and destabilize everything. That does happen. That particularly happens in the sexual domain

1:39:51 The man who are winning should be allowed to win and the woman should be allowed to choose. Yes except that there's the problem of children

1:40:49 Women are high Pergamus which means they meet across a knop dominance hierarchies and so if you're a male who's successful in a given hierarchy the probability that you're gonna have additional mating opportunities is exceptionally high. It's an unbelievably good predictor of that

1:41:27 Women's market oriented sexual choice

1:42:24 Society's tilt towards monogamy across the world is human universal

1:43:19 Cheating is common but it's not the norm. It's still the norm not to do that. The norm is fidelity

1:44:39 The gender pay gap

1:43:47 What is enforced monogamy?

1:47:18 How much you make is not the only hallmark of success in your life

1:47:49 How much socioeconomic success are you willing to sacrifice to spend time with your kids before they're three years old? That should not be none!

1:48:01 Once you make enough money to keep the bill collectors at bay, additional money doesn't improve your quality of life. Other things do

1:48:35 There's a tiny percentage of men who are hyper-competitive along those single axis of competition and maybe they drive most things. They probably do. But that doesn't make them right. It also doesn't make them most people

1:52:17 A world of equality of outcome could not be achieved if there are actual differences between people

1:53:15 Main differences between men and women

1:54:26 Differences between men and women get more extreme at the ends of the distribution

1:56:00 As the societies get more egalitarian the differences between men and women get bigger. You make the societies more egalitarian men and women get more different

1:57:18 We have to have the hierarchy

1:57:26 If you get rid of the hierarchy you get rid of the value structure, you get rid of the tools that allow us to generate absolute wealth and stop people from starving it's catastrophe. You have to have the hierarchy

1:58:11 Soviet Union was motivated by the desire for equality of outcome

1:59:51 Who is in the 1% ?

2:00:44 You're not perfect man. There's hatred in you. And the probability that it's more powerful than love is pretty damn high. Look to your own viewpoint before you go out there and try to fix the hierarchies of the world

1:59:33 Agreeableness motivates aggression

1:59:38 The envious and the resentful can use compassion as a camouflage for their true intent which is to tear down anyone who has more than them

2:02:20 The biggest difference between men and women is an interest

2:04:46 The only thing that's worse than the pain of inequality is the pain of forced equality

2:05:26 We can't have equality of outcome amongst people with lower than 83 IQs

2:08:31 The norms around sexual behavior in the workplace?

2:16:24 Don't do interviews that will be edited

2:17:15 It's not necessarily a mistake to lay yourself open to attack because sometimes it reveals the motives of the attackers

2:28:41 Spoken word is now as powerful as the written word. That's never happened in human history

2:29:00 Maybe ten times as many people can listen to complex information as can read complex information in terms of their ability to process it

1:56:44 When you edit someone and take their words out of context and change them around you are being deceptive

2:38:38 Big things disappear when they get crooked and ideologically rigid

2:36:44 "New Your Times will die faster than you think"

2:39:28 Newspapers are dying so fast

2:40:00 Cable TV is dead

2:41:11 As the technology is supplanted the ideological polarization increases as the thing dies

2:44:09 One of the most deadly things for a fighter to do is to overestimate his own position

2:44:16 If you overestimate your abilities you're in deep trouble because you're gonna get a wake-up call. Objectivity is one of the most critical aspects of development. You have to be objectively assessing your strength and weaknesses at every step of the way

2:44:39 Ego is the enemy