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

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