Artificial Intelligence Podcast

Key Takeaways

The soul is the battleground between the forces of good and evil; it is your moral duty to constrain evil within yourself
Communism does not scale and it does not iterate – whereas religious thought is the record of those ideas that have scaled and iterated
If you follow the voice of adventure and make the necessary sacrifices to follow the path that takes you out of your comfort zone, then you will experience the following benefits:
- Your life will be a blessing
- Everyone will hold you in high esteem
- You will establish something of permanent value
- You will do these things in a way that is maximally beneficial to everyone else
There is no distinction between the truest adventure of life and taking on the maximal responsibility and burden
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today
Make the presumption that if you move forward in good faith, whatever happens to you will be the best thing that could happen – no matter what it is
Men should have a temper, but they should be able to regulate it; most of what passes for morality is nothing but cowardice
A good man has to be formidable: The capacity that could be the most potent force for evil can also be the most powerful force for good
Welcome the adversity of life as a redemptive challenge; the best parts of yourself activate when you voluntarily contend with challenges
After you go through a period of pain, you will have more gratitude for the ordinariness of life
We have an existential moral duty to aim upward and to tell the truth

Jordan Peterson is a psychologist, author, lecturer, and podcast host.
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(07:07) - Nietzsche
(14:48) - Power and propaganda
(19:54) - Nazism
(24:54) - Religion
(41:18) - Communism
(47:03) - Hero myth
(49:12) - Belief in God
(59:24) - Advice for young people
(1:12:02) - Sex
(1:32:00) - Good and evil
(1:44:46) - Psychopathy
(1:58:15) - Hardship
(2:10:31) - Pain and gratitude
(2:21:32) - Truth

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#448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning

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