"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

Canada Day is around the corner. In honour of the anniversary of the Canadian confederation, I'm hosting a special discount on my Discovering Personality course for $70 (50% off). It is a brilliant opportunity to learn more about your strengths, weaknesses, how you can leverage them in life, understand those around you, and other valuable insights into your personality by using the "Big 5" personality model.

You will have access to 8 video lectures that will cover the five traits: Extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience - as well as what they mean and how they serve you day-to-day.

More than 20,000 people have joined the course, and their feedback is overwhelmingly positive. The overall rating is 4.5 out of 5, and the exclusive members-only community is active with students sharing stories, helping each other grow, and offering support in any way possible.

Click here for your course: https://courses.jordanbpeterson.com/personality/canada-day

#CanadaDay

"There are aspects of me that withdraw beyond my consciousness, but nevertheless shape and make an impact."

A clip from my podcast with my colleague John Vervaeke.

Click the link to watch the full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLg2Q0daphE

Listen here: https://linktr.ee/DrJordanBPeterson

Was Heidegger Contaminated by Egotism?

"That’s a very dangerous thing for a thinker, because the first thing you should think if you’re a thinker, is that what you don’t know is a lot more than what you know, and you almost know nothing."

Another clip taken from my latest podcast with John Vervaeke.

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLg2Q0daphE

Can you be racist without intending to be racist?

Andrew Doyle | The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast | S4: E32

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoH1g5GYhPw&t=2573s

Happy Canada Day, everybody.

I hope you all have a great day and share the occasion with those you love. It's certainly an occasion to be celebrated.

As I previously mentioned, my Personality Course is discounted by 50% ($70) to celebrate Canada Day. The discount is available globally and not just to those of you in Canada. If you had planned on purchasing the Discovering Personality course at any point in the past, now is a great time to consider it.

With an in-depth view of each personality trait in the form of 8-video lectures, it will help you understand yourself and those around you more clearly by using the Big Five personality model.

You can get started here: https://courses.jordanbpeterson.com/personality/canada-day

"CNN, Fox, or ABC: whenever they do these egregious things, they just pretend they never happened all along, or say, “You can’t listen to the conspiracy theories on the internet.”

A clip from my conversation with Michael Malice.

Watch it here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9HqHzA3atQ

IQ tests are the most reliable and valid measures we have in the social sciences.

Podcast clip with @sbkaufman.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4xZUQmmMuI

Teaching and learning simultaneously.

A clip from my recent podcast with Samuel Andreyev.

Available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNcqLN42l8s&t=2628s

4chan Is the Wild West of Free Speech.

"If you just ban one address, the amount of effort it takes to shift to another one could not be more minimal." - Michael Malice

Find the podcast on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9HqHzA3atQ&t=3737s

How 4chan Is Different From Facebook.

"People who have that bureaucratic mindset, people who have this managerial elite running things, they can’t even conceive of an organization, a location, or a website which is decentralized. There’s no big, bad vampire to kill."

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9HqHzA3atQ&t=3737s

“I think people who do what they have an aptitude to do are much happier than unfortunately a very large amount of people who are stuck in occupations they don't like.”

Conrad Black is a Canadian-born British peer, and former publisher of The London Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Jerusalem Post, and founder of Canada's National Post.

Lord Conrad Black and I discuss his life, how he got into history, education, the newspaper business, living in Britain, his experience with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, incarceration, becoming a tutor, and much more.

You can now watch this conversation on YouTube, or listen on Apple and Spotify, by clicking here: https://linktr.ee/DrJordanBPeterson

"What we learned was that if we gave up something we valued in the present, and so that could be a false idol, that’s one way of thinking about it, if we gave up something in the present we valued, the future would improve."

This clip is from my podcast with Stephen Fry. If you'd like to watch it, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFFSKedy9f4&t=965s

"I was actually pretty close to the centre in Britain, because it was my first trip there as the chief shareholder of the Telegraph Company. The prime minister invited me to lunch on Saturday at Chequers, and she said, “We need you, we can’t win without you. Are you with us?” I said, “Oh yeah, I’m with you all.”

Lord Conrad Black shares many more interesting insights and stories about his time in Britain and Politics. Click here to catch on YouTube or listen on Apple or Spotify podcasts: https://linktr.ee/DrJordanBPeterson

Life is short. Create a sense of urgency.

You get older a lot faster than you think. So pay attention. Attention is an underrated faculty it's not the same as thinking. It's watching to see what's in front of your eyes. To guide yourself as a consequence of what you perceive. It's the faculty that transforms thought if you let it.

And your conscience alerts you, as well. It lets you know when you're wasting time. And very few people are happy with that. No one escapes that voice of conscience.

This is a clip from my podcast with Chris Will.

Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJg9wd8agQY&t=4084s

Learn to write because writing is thinking formalized.

First, you need a problem. A problem that grips you so that you feel a desire to investigate. The next thing you need to do is have something to say about the issue. And reading is brilliant for that. You should read as much as you can about how to address the problem you have.

Now you have new information at your disposal, and it’s your job to elegantly formulate that - while being precise in your word choice. You then organize your sentences correctly. And your paragraphs. Hopefully, now the whole thing is coherent enough to make sense.

While this is happening, you are sharpening your tools. You’re learning to think. And you improve your ability to think by learning to write. Pick some severe problems and learn to write very, very carefully.

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

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsZ8XqHPjI4&t=1s

Learn to write because writing is thinking formalized. If you can think, and speak, and write, you are absolutely deadly.

From my podcast with Jocko Willink.

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA4Bkybx1ps

"Margaret Thatcher was very courageous and very admirable, also a wonderful person in small ways. The staff at Downing Street and Chequers loved her: she was terribly polite to these people."

More of this conversation is available here: https://linktr.ee/DrJordanBPeterson

It's almost unbelievable the effects that consistent incremental progress can have on your life.

Straighten yourself out. Fix the things you can fix. Keep it up for 10 or 20 years and you will transform your life in unimaginable ways.

From my podcast with Chris WIlliamson.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJg9wd8agQY&t=4084s