Why would you not want to make the most out of every possible moment?

There's no difference between making the most out of every possible moment and aiming up with as much vision, love, hope, and faith as you possibly can.

And if you look up towards the highest possible heights, every step you take will have the firmest of all possible foundations underneath it.

If you did that, you would set the world right.

The fool is the precursor to the savior.

That's one of the things I learned from Jung. It's so amazing that that might be the case.

Why? Because you are a fool when you start something new. If you are not willing to be a fool, then you'll never start anything new, and you will not develop.

The willingness to be a fool is the precursor to transformation—that is the same as humility.

If you are going to write your destiny, you can do a bad first job. Because you're going to get smarter as you move forward.

I am pleased to announce some new dates for my ‘We Who Wrestle With God’ tour.

New Dates Added:

May 14th - Phoenix, AZ - A second show has been added after the first sold out.

The Presale for this show goes live tomorrow at 10:00am PST.

Use Presale Code: JORDAN.

Ticket link: https://concerts.livenation.com/dr-jordan-b-peterson-we-who-phoenix-arizona-05-14-2024/event/19005F88AEC72940

June 18th - Sao Paulo, Brazil.
June 20th - Porto Alegre, Brazil.
June 22nd - Santiago, Chile.
June 25th - Mexico City, Mexico.

The Presale will go live for the above shows on Tuesday, March 12th, 2024.

Kierkegaard talks about the idea of being a knight of faith.

He puts forward a proposition that I think is akin to the idea that undergirds marriage, which is:

You cannot find out whether creation is Good or Evil without being all in on your bet. Just like you cannot be married without saying, “I am shackling myself to you and I am not going to run away no matter what. So we better get to know each other and get along because this is how it is going to be.”

Without that, you cannot be deeply committed enough to the marriage to make it work. So, it seems to me, that at the forefront of faith, you have to act in the world with courageous trust—not naïve trust, but courageous trust—in the potential goodness of being to discover whether or not that faith is justified.

And that is partly why it is faith; you have to put the cart before the horse.

Romance requires trust—and the deeper the trust, the deeper the possibility for romance.

Treat Yourself Like Someone You Are Responsible for Helping.

Jung wrote about the biblical idea that you should treat your neighbor as if he were yourself.

It's often read as something like, “You should be nice to people”.

That’s not what it means at all. Nice is a very low-end virtue. It means that you should treat your neighbor as if he or she is someone you wish to encourage and develop.

But you should also have the same attitude towards yourself. Regardless of what your opinion is of yourself, critical, hypercritical, let's say.

That's often the case with people who are anxious or hyper-conscientious.
You have to give yourself the same sympathy that you would extend to someone you cared for. You have to come to treat yourself as if you're someone that you care for.

On my upcoming tour, I will discuss ideas that are closely related to my 2017 Biblical Lecture Series—ideas I've been working through in my forthcoming book.

Tickets can be found here: https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/events/

You have to be willing to be a fool to advance.

When you're learning anything new, you'll feel like an imposter.

That's a very useful thing to know. You'll feel like a fool because you are. And you'll think, “I'll never get there”.

The destination might look very distant, but if you take a small first step and get the ball rolling, you can cruise along at a pretty good rate.

What happens when you expose people to small but challenging tasks is:

1. It makes them more skilled because now they're dealing with the problem. They're acquiring new perceptions and new behaviors that are mastery.

2. They see themselves as actors who can change the direction of their lives.

I've never seen anyone unable to progress if they made the task small enough.

That can be pretty humiliating. But the upside is that once you've taken that first step, you'll start progressing exponentially.

If you're not willing to be a fool, you cannot become a master.

Tell the Truth—Or, At Least, Don’t Lie.

Lying is very powerful because you can manipulate the world with your language. And you can get what you want often; or escape from things you don't want.

So, why not lie all the time?

Well, there are many reasons, but one of them is that you can't trust yourself if you lie. And there will be times in your life when you have no one to turn to except yourself.

So, if you've stuffed yourself full of lies, you're going to be in a crisis one day, and you're going to have to make a decision, and you're going to decide wrong.

You won't have the clarity of mind necessary to make the proper judgment because you have filled your imagination and perception with rubbish.

Then, you're in real trouble.

Five hundred small decisions, five hundred tiny actions, compose your day, today, and every day.

Sometimes the reason that you're suffering is because you won't let go of the thing that's biting you.

You have to be willing to give yourself credit for small achievements.