How to Think and How to Speak | Jordan Peterson and Lex Fridman

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  @Red_AIert · 4 years ago

  “Voluntary exposure to that which freezes and terrifies you in measured proportions is curative.”  Head explodes. Best yet terrifying advice ever.

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• JA

  @jagotiberan2181 · 4 years ago

  “We’ve been great friends, and we’ve never met.” Wow, that’s a beautiful sentiment.

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• NI

  @nicksonscovers1835 · 3 years ago

  So speak truth, choose your words carefully and voluntarily face your fears. Thats the great way to live..

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• JO

  @Jonnyarm209 · 2 years ago

  “Some of my best friends don’t even know I exist” <br>I feel you Lex. Love you brother

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• JA

  @jackrode6105 · 3 years ago

  Lex’s story about losing faith in the understanding of his own words mid sentence is amazing! It really shows the man’s dedication to truth and his genuine curiosity to understand the universe.

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• TU

  @Turkeyburger123 · 1 year ago

  Wow, just realised working at a door-knocking job, that the ability to verbally articulate and express your thoughts in a confident tone is so important as other people subconsciously view you as more assertive instead of stumbling over your words which makes you look the opposite

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• AW

  @AwokenEntertainment · 4 years ago

  This clip broke down these concepts so well.. saved

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• FI

  @fintanboyle1190 · 4 years ago

  The humility Lex demonstrates constantly astounds me , the man is successful in his own endeavours and never allows in to cloud his own curiosity and intuitive questioning , Astounding .

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• ZS

  @ZsS911 · 4 years ago

  This clip is properly one of the best ones ever.

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• SA

  @sailorgreen5285 · 1 year ago

  Question- What is the meaning in what I&apos;m trying to do? Is anything I&apos;m doing purposeful? More so than whether this aligns with my values or not, the question is, what is the point of doing what I&apos;m doing? What is it that I&apos;m trying to do?<br><br>What I&apos;m trying to do is not completely my own decision or choice but rather a product of several influences, whether parental or from people or society or value metric systems or things I watched. Essentially, It is a product of my conditioning, experiences, and interests. <br><br><br>Why am I here? I saw people who were smart. I wanted to be like them. They were doing this. As a byproduct of that, I wanted to do this. Why? Because I directly related smartness to this field and I wanted to be smart.<br><br>What is smart? Why do you want to be smart?<br><br>People who went to war with words and dominated that battle. It was a life changing observation that your thinking, something you can build improve upon something entirely internal, can be so powerful such as to reshape dialogues and conversations. Its like history has had a lot of thinkers. I wanted to join the game and change that narrative, being revolutionary in it. So its not about law, but thought and the reshaping of what it means to be human, achieved by way of conscious creative expression. Ideas are powerful and the ability to discover, invent and re-invent- That is what drew me and my curiosity to this field. If done correctly, I could potentially change the very nature of society and how we operate.<br><br>Is this important to me or is this another mental construct that is an extension of my conditioning and fantasy?<br>Experimenting with the fabric of reality, exploring what we do not know, the power of the unknown and bringing that back and transforming the unknown to the known would greatly reshape and guide efforts of humanity in a more productive direction. Why is this even important to me?<br><br>Because if you do not do something beyond your own self-centred existence, what is the point of your existence? But I experience life through my own self centred existence. I experience everything through my eyes. I will never escape myself, and so my efforts to do this end with me. But that is the whole point, If I am finite and my thoughts end with me, It is important that I do something that is a remnant of my existence, even if it slightly changes how we live. So that the next person who comes after me can live in a better world. And so on and so forth. I might not be able to bear the fruits of my efforts, but the next person will.

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• DI

  @discopantsoprano · 4 years ago

  Related quote: &quot;Never work for other people...always, always remember that the reason that you initially started working was that there was something inside yourself that you felt, that if you could manifest it in some way, you would understand more about yourself and how you co-exist with the rest of society... And the other thing I would say is that if you feel safe in the area that you&apos;re working in, you&apos;re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you&apos;re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth and when you don&apos;t feel that you&apos;re feet are quite touching the bottom, you&apos;re just about in the right place to do something exciting.&quot;<br><br>– David Bowie

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• PH

  @PhilosophicalGospelPodcast · 4 years ago

  I don&apos;t think this would have made any sense to me about 6 months ago. But now it seems intuitively true but I can&apos;t say why.

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