Dr. Scott Kaufman and I sit down to discuss a variety of topics in the area of cognitive science, behavioural study, and Humanism. We diverge and touch on many points such as I.Q. tests, personality traits, aggression in the hierarchy, dating intelligence, self-actualization, long-form media, and more.

Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman is a cognitive scientist exploring the limits of human potential. He hosts the very popular podcast, The Psychology Podcast. He is an author, editor, and co-editor of nine books including his newest, “Transcend: The New Science of Self Actualization”.

You can watch my conversation with Dr. Kaufman here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4xZUQmmMuI&t=2sv

A clip from my latest podcast with Scott Barry Kaufman covering competence, generosity and aggression.

You can listen to the full conversation by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4xZUQmmMuI&t=2s
Listen here: https://direct.me/jordanpeterson

Why we feel positive when we remember doing difficult things in our past.

My latest Q&A is now live on my YouTube Channel for you to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_luzlgqYz0&t=626s

My podcast with Yeonmi Park has just reached 1,000,000+ views on YouTube. Here is a clip from our 2-hour conversation together.

I recommend you watch the video in its entirety to get a true insight into what it was like for Yeonmi in North Korea.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yqa-SdJtT4&t=1316s

Audio: https://direct.me/jordanpeterson

What you most want to find will be found where you least want to look.

There's this old story from King Arthur: King Arthur has these knights, and they're off to find the Holy Grail.

The Holy Grail is the most valuable object - That's what it means. So they're off to find the most valuable thing, but they don't know what it is, and they don't know where it is. But they know that there is such a thing. They don't know where to look... Well, there's a castle in the middle of the forest. So each night each one of them decides to start looking for the Holy Grail by entering the forest at the point that looks darkest to him.

What's the idea there? Well, imagine some things come easy to you and that you're happy about pursuing, you found those things and followed them, and you've mastered them. You know all that. But then there are other places you don't want to go to, you haven't been yet, and you haven't mastered them. They have this monstrous aspect to them.

There will be a lot of things in your life that you're afraid of that you don't want to face. But if you want to put yourself together, that's precisely what you have to do.

It is frequently the case that what you want to find is to be found where you least want to look.

I am taking questions on Thinkspot for my next Q&A to be released on July 1st 2021. Compact questions are appreciated. I look forward to answering what I can. Please submit questions by Tuesday, June 22nd.

Click the link below to submit your question: https://thinkspot.com/online_content/jordan-peterson/recorded-q-a-5-please-submit-questions-by-6-22/5WuW07/Event?live=yes&t=watch&re=y

The Impossible Anti-Racism Discourse

“The word “racism” has almost become meaningless: the people who use it the most, they throw it around so liberally that I never believe it when I hear someone brand it that way. I assume it’s someone not being honest and not being truthful.”

Andrew Doyle and I sit down to discuss a variety of topics including his new book, “Free Speech and Why It Matters, the hate crime law in Parliament, the attack on free speech and its importance, Twitter attacks, creativity, and more.

Watch here: https://youtu.be/aoH1g5GYhPw
Listen here: https://direct.me/jordanpeterson

Bring out the best in your child.

"I would almost be in dereliction if I didn’t mock it. It would be an act of self-censorship if I didn’t go after these targets. A lot of comedians think this stuff is ridiculous. They won’t go near it, because they know that if they do, they won’t get on the BBC, and they won’t get booked by certain clubs. They just leave it well alone."

To watch the full conversation with Andrew Doyle, visit my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/aoH1g5GYhPw

You can also listen to the podcast here: https://direct.me/jordanpeterson

Gaslighting the Meaning of Racism

"They gave the word to us: gaslighting. When they gaslight all the time and say, “The culture war is a right-wing myth.” Or, the chief practitioners of cancel culture saying that council culture doesn’t exist." When they say the opposite of what is the observable reality, I don’t know how to break through that, how to break through those arguments, because not only have they constructed a pseudo-reality in their own minds."

More of this conversation can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoH1g5GYhPw

You can listen to it here: https://linktr.ee/DrJordanBPeterson

What qualifies as a hate crime?

“I've never been good at anything when I started it. I'm not a natural at anything... It's a combination of persistence and foolishness... Also, paying attention to how I feel after I have done something.”

I had the pleasure of inviting Samuel Andreyev onto my podcast. Samuel Andreyev is a Canadian composer who has sought his fame and fortune in Europe. He writes music for orchestras, soloists, chamber groups, singers, and other ensembles throughout Europe and the world.

We sat down to discuss the skills needed to be successful as an artist, where to start if you want to compose music, the hierarchy in western music, the relationship of music and language, the importance of genres, and more.
You can watch more of this conversation by clicking the link in my bio.

You can watch more of my conversation with Samuel here: https://youtu.be/rNcqLN42l8s

How do you know who you are?

You are complex beyond your own understanding; more complex than anything else that exists, excepting other people; complex beyond belief. And your ignorance is further complicated by the intermingling of who you are with who you could be. You are not only something that is. You are something that is becoming— and the potential extent of that becoming also transcends your understanding.

Everyone has the sense, I believe, that there is more to them than they have yet allowed to be realized. That potential is often obscured by poor health, misfortune, and the general tragedies and mishaps of life. But it can also be hidden by an unwillingness to take full advantage of the opportunities that life offers— abetted by regrettable errors of all sorts, including failures of discipline, faith, imagination, and commitment.

Who are you? And, more importantly, who could you be, if you were everything you could conceivably be?

"It’s difficult for me to go too much beyond three hours. It starts to be a question of diminishing returns after that point. When I’m working, I want to be in a state where I’m razor-sharp, where I’m completely present. I have all of my forces marshalled and ready for the task at hand. You can’t be half there and checking your email. You really do have to be focused on it."

Our full conversation can be watched or listened to here: https://linktr.ee/DrJordanBPeterson

"Here’s a good hint for anybody who wants to produce anything: the first thing is overproduce, let yourself go. You can produce a tremendous amount, you learn the editing end of it, which is to throw away everything that isn’t good. That’ll be a lot, but it won’t be everything, and that’s okay. You can throw away a lot. If you do that over and over, you get better at it. You start to have to throw away less."

More from my talk with Samuel Andreyev. See it in full here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNcqLN42l8s&t=2704s

Over the last year, my team and I have been working on translating my most popular videos and ideas into several foreign languages. Today we're launching channels in 7 additional languages.

I would like to continue enabling the free propagation of my work - in the hope that it will encourage more people to take responsibility for their lives and reduce the amount of suffering in the world.

We've built a website dedicated to each language, with an overview of my work, the new rules from Beyond Order, videos, and links to the translated social media channels, which will be updated frequently with new content. The languages released today are as follows:

- Spanish
- Japanese
- Swahili
- German
- Serbian
- Indonesian
- Hindi

You can find all of the links to each language here: https://linktr.ee/JBPTranslations

What level of intense concentration can you sustain while working? A clip from my podcast with Samuel Andreyev.

Watch or listen here: https://linktr.ee/DrJordanBPeterson

"You want to immerse yourself in the work of masters. You risk losing your own creativity for a time by doing that because if you come across someone who’s very powerful at what they do, that can overwhelm you. But you need to be confident that your own voice will come through eventually... You don’t want to make the mistake of thinking you’ll do an apprenticeship, and all your originality will be hammered out of you. It will come back in a more developed manner."

Another clip from my podcast with Samuel Andreyev.

Click here to watch or listen to it: https://linktr.ee/DrJordanBPeterson

“Look, if you are going to be a realist, you have to admit into your metaphysics: relationships between things that do not depend for their existence on us being aware of those relationships. Things have to be able to influence and disclose each other in a way that is dark to us."

John Vervaeke is a colleague of mine who has been an associate professor in the teaching stream at the University of Toronto. He teaches courses in the Psychology department on thinking and reasoning, with emphasis on insight problem solving associated with creativity, cognitive development on the dynamic nature of development and higher cognitive processes on intelligence, rationality, mindfulness, and the psychology of wisdom.

You can watch my full conversation with John here: https://youtu.be/DLg2Q0daphE

Or listen here: https://linktr.ee/DrJordanBPeterson