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Solzhenitsyn
“Like I read in Solzhenitsyn, for example, that the Central Soviet authorities often had to make 200 pricing decisions a day.”
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Jordan Peterson
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A Billion Wicked Thoughts
“Naively oriented towards empirical truth to note when they’re being politically incorrect, they wrote a great book called A Billion Wicked Thoughts, which I really like.”
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What Jordan said.
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01 / evaluation
Yeah, I was walking like 10 to 12 miles a day, rain or shine, winter, didn’t matter, not good. And it was worse than that because as the day progressed, my pain levels would fall until by 10, 11 at night when I was starting to get tired.
“Yeah, I was walking like 10 to 12 miles a day, rain or shine, winter, didn’t matter, not good. And it was worse than that because as the day progressed, my pain levels would fall until by 10, 11 at night when I was starting to get tired.”
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- Jordan Peterson
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
02 / evaluation
I think all of that is right. I think the idea that that’s more likely to occur among young people, that’s clear.
“I think all of that is right. I think the idea that that’s more likely to occur among young people, that’s clear.”
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- Jordan Peterson
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
03 / evaluation
Yeah, struggle-free progress is not possible. And I think there are situations under which where you might be motivated to prove someone in your immediate circle wrong, but then that also implies that at some level, for some reason, you actually care about their judgment.
“Yeah, struggle-free progress is not possible. And I think there are situations under which where you might be motivated to prove someone in your immediate circle wrong, but then that also implies that at some level, for some reason, you actually care about their judgment.”
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- Jordan Peterson
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
04 / evaluation
It’s extraordinarily ancient. And the exploration story is something like go out into the unknown and take the risks because the information that you discover and the skills you develop will be worthwhile, even in sating the basic motivational drives.
“It’s extraordinarily ancient. And the exploration story is something like go out into the unknown and take the risks because the information that you discover and the skills you develop will be worthwhile, even in sating the basic motivational drives.”
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- Jordan Peterson
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
05 / evaluation
There are things I’m interested in that I felt as a moral compulsion. And so you could think and I think the way you can think about it technically is that something pulls you forward so that you move ahead and you develop.
“There are things I’m interested in that I felt as a moral compulsion. And so you could think and I think the way you can think about it technically is that something pulls you forward so that you move ahead and you develop.”
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- Jordan Peterson
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
06 / evaluation
You could call that yourself. But it was Jung’s contention, for example, with regards to such terminology that the reason we use the term self instead of God is because when God was dispensed with, let’s say, by the processes Nietzsche described, we just found the same thing deep within the instinctive realm.
“You could call that yourself. But it was Jung’s contention, for example, with regards to such terminology that the reason we use the term self instead of God is because when God was dispensed with, let’s say, by the processes Nietzsche described, we just found the same thing deep within the instinctive realm.”
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- Jordan Peterson
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
07 / evaluation
Part of the way… See, that problem is actually resolved to some degree in the notion of… in the developing notion of sacrifice that emerges in the western canon over thousands and thousands of years. So one of the suggestions, for example, and this is something exemplified in the passion story, is that you can tell the valid holder of an idea because that holder will take the responsibility for the consequences of his idea onto himself.
“Part of the way… See, that problem is actually resolved to some degree in the notion of… in the developing notion of sacrifice that emerges in the western canon over thousands and thousands of years. So one of the suggestions, for example, and this is something exemplified in the passion story, is that you can tell the valid holder of an idea because that holder will take the responsibility for the consequences of his idea onto himself.”
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- Jordan Peterson
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
08 / evaluation
You have potential and maybe plenty, and hopefully that’ll be made manifest, but you shouldn’t be all upset because you’re the same loser as everyone else your age has always been since the beginning of time.
“You have potential and maybe plenty, and hopefully that’ll be made manifest, but you shouldn’t be all upset because you’re the same loser as everyone else your age has always been since the beginning of time.”
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- Jordan Peterson
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
09 / evaluation
One of the things I think — who knows if this is true, because things are changing so rapidly, I’m not sure that we are more polarized than we were five years ago — but I think that one of the things that’s happening is that the illusion of polarization is being driven by the death of the mainstream media because these new media forms have emerged: video killing television; podcast killing radio; the net, for written content, killing print journalism.
“One of the things I think — who knows if this is true, because things are changing so rapidly, I’m not sure that we are more polarized than we were five years ago — but I think that one of the things that’s happening is that the illusion of polarization is being driven by the death of the mainstream media because these new media forms have emerged: video killing television; podcast killing radio; the net, for written content, killing print journalism.”
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- Jordan Peterson
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- Conversations with Tyler
10 / evaluation
The reason that I’m able to speak fluently, I would say, and to lecture the way I do is because I spent a tremendous amount of time writing.
“The reason that I’m able to speak fluently, I would say, and to lecture the way I do is because I spent a tremendous amount of time writing.”
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- Jordan Peterson
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- Conversations with Tyler
11 / evaluation
The first problem we ran into was that — because the original idea was to build an online university — but as soon as we started thinking about that deeply, we thought, “Well, that’s like building a horseless carriage.
“The first problem we ran into was that — because the original idea was to build an online university — but as soon as we started thinking about that deeply, we thought, “Well, that’s like building a horseless carriage.”
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- Jordan Peterson
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- Conversations with Tyler
12 / evaluation
Some of them are of very high quality because the Russians kept the intense training characteristic of late-19th-century European art academies open throughout the entire 20th century.
“Some of them are of very high quality because the Russians kept the intense training characteristic of late-19th-century European art academies open throughout the entire 20th century.”
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- Jordan Peterson
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- Conversations with Tyler