Don't let what you are stop you from being what you could be.

Rule #4 from 12 Rules for Life.

When you're 17, this kind of social comparison is appropriate - to some degree. When you're 30, your life is idiosyncratic. It's multidimensional and unlike anybody else's. So it's not reasonable to compare yourself.

You only see one dimension. You don't have the whole picture.

Strive to aim at the best.

That has to be your fundamental ethos despite all of the calamities of being - for you and others.

The Ben Shapiro Show - Episode 114.

Today, the Honorable Maxime Bernier, leader of the People’s Party of Canada, former MP of Beauce and candidate for the Prime ministership of Canada, joins me on my podcast.

Maxime shares his involvement in Canadian politics, the founding of the PPC, and his vision for the future of Canada. There is also discussion on “common sense” policies, free markets, governmental overreach, the dismantling of classical conservative ideals, and the upcoming Canadian election on the 20th of September.

Tune in to this exclusive podcast here:
https://youtu.be/ltZ7iGrF4BM

Theo Von "I can respect that I’m a victim of some things, but if I only see myself as a victim, it’s going to make the rest of my life pretty tough."

Theo and I delve into victimhood and what it means in this clip from our podcast together earlier this year.

Available here: https://youtu.be/NSjEqM7USgA

Everyone has the sense, I believe, that there is more to them than they have yet allowed to be realized.

Who could you be, if you were everything you could conceivably be?

The Complexities of Pricing.

A clip from my podcast with Dr. Robert Murphy discussing my Self-Authoring suite and the complexities of pricing it (and pricing in general).

The Female Dilemma of Fecundity and Career.

"Many 19-year-old girls, I’ve talked to many of them, believe that their career is going to be the most important thing in their life. Very few 30-year-old women believe that, even if they have high-powered careers..."

My podcast with Rob Henderson will go live tomorrow on YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Rob Henderson joins me on the podcast today.

We sit down to discuss the idea of luxury beliefs, polyamory, the concept of the patriarchal institution, psychopathy and it's relationship with dating apps, pornography, elitists and more.

Tune in here: https://youtu.be/-6ZyQKiwMQw

Two pieces of advice if you're being mobbed online and you're having difficult conversations:

1. Be careful about what you say; or what you have said in the past. And it may be too late for that.

2. If you haven't done anything wrong, do not apologise.

If you are a competent writer, speaker and communicator - you have all of the authority and competence that there is.⁣

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"There are two things that every society needs to control: one is female fecundity because of its high cost, and the other is male aggression."

Rob and I discuss fecundity (the ability to produce an abundance of offspring), male aggression and monogamy.

If you'd like to watch more, click here: https://youtu.be/-6ZyQKiwMQw

The world Is dangerous. But you're tougher than you think you are.

In my clinical practice, it isn't that my clients became less afraid. They become braver. And they realised there was more to them than they initially thought there was.

#JordanPeterson #Psychology #BehaviourTherapy #Philosophy #CBT

"...there is this feeling among more blue-collar, working-class people that, “The elites over there, they look down on us. They view us in a certain way. They treat us like we’re stupid, backwards, evil, or racist. Really it’s just not true."

From my latest podcast with Rob Henderson. Tune in here: https://youtu.be/-6ZyQKiwMQw

Andrew Schulz: "When did masculinity become something bad?"

Maybe when we, as men, accepted that characterisation of it.

You can find more of this talk on YouTube on Andrew's "Flagrant U" podcast channel.

"If you are a graduate of a top university, and you are economically comfortable, you can have whatever set of beliefs you want, and in all likelihood, you’ll be just fine."

My talk with Rob covered elitist, pornography, Tinder, polyamory, reproductive technology and more.

Watch more here: https://youtu.be/-6ZyQKiwMQw

You can be wise and smart, but there's no relationship between being smart and being wise - and there's no quick pathway from smart to wise.

Here lies the arrogance of the intellect.

"It's unbelievably adventurous to only say what you think is true right there and then, to be in that moment, and to have decided that there's no agenda, "I'm just going to say what I think, regardless of the consequences."

"Under The Skin" Podcast with Russell Brand. Available here: http://luminary.link/russell

To treat yourself as if you were someone you are responsible for helping is, instead, to consider what would be truly good for you.

This is not “what you want.” It is also not “what would make you happy.”

You need to consider the future and think, “What might my life look like if I were caring for myself properly? What career would challenge me and render me productive and helpful, so that I could shoulder my share of the load, and enjoy the consequences?

"What should I be doing, when I have some freedom, to improve my health, expand my knowledge, and strengthen my body?”

"...you can’t move ahead without axiomatic presuppositions. The issue is they have to be, it seems to me, and maybe this has to do with the Christian idea that you’re supposed to look for the evil within: you’re destined to operate with a set of axiomatic presuppositions."

Watch more of this here: https://youtu.be/RsmSBJMSRQk

If you work as hard as you can on one thing, you will change. You will start to also become one thing instead of the clamoring multitude you once were.

That one thing, developed properly, is not only the disciplined entity formed by sacrifice, commitment, and concentration. It is that which creates, destroys, and transforms discipline itself— civilization itself— by expressing its unity of personality and society.

Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens.