Jordan Peterson: STOP LYING TO YOURSELF! How To Turn Your Life Around In 2024!

Sometimes it can feel like men and women in relationships want entirely different things, like they're struggling to communicate and connect on the same level about the same set of priorities. Jordan will now explain exactly why that is. But outside of the context of a relationship, all of us struggle in our lives for a variety of different reasons, and what Jordan's particularly good at is telling anybody who's right now listening to this that is struggling in some way or finds themselves in a situation where they're struggling to get out and climb out of that situation step-by-step how to do that, how to turn that situation into the greatest success of your life. And that's why I loved this conversation, and why I think you're gonna love it too. And before this episode starts, I've got a ten-second favor to ask you that are listening to this right now. 62%, roughly, of people that listen to this podcast haven't yet hit the subscribe button. If you could do me any favor at all, it would be just to hit that subscribe button. It helps this channel immensely. And if you do that for me, I promise, with my team, to do everything we can to make this show better and better and better for you. Do we have a deal? Enjoy the episode. (instrumental music) Jordan, we had a conversation before, and it reached tens of millions of people, and as I went through the feedback and the comments of that conversation, I found one that really stood out to me. Someone said, "I had just days of will left in my body. I felt like a failure. I hadn't reached the potential I knew I had in me. Despite effort, I couldn't become the person I was so desperate to become. And then, I found Jordan, and his unfiltered words pulled me from my darkest moment just in time. Now, my life is in my hands once again, and I've built a career and a life I'm proud of. So thank you, Jordan. We may never meet, but you've saved my life, and my children still have their father because of you." It is one hell of an impact that you've had on just that single person's life. How do you receive such incredible feedback from a stranger you've never met?

Well, when, when you were reading that, you know, I mean, it, it's obviously a very positive thing to hear, but my mind immediately went to why that's the case. See, I've been in the fortunate position of being able to synthesize and then communicate a century's worth of clinical research and experience gathered by very many extremely intelligent and careful people, and then on top of that, whatever I've managed to gather being reasonably educated in the broader sphere of the humanities and sciences, let's say. And the effect that this individual is attributing to me is a consequence of that, right? I've been successful because I've been a conduit of good ideas, and I have the ability to synthesize a lot of information and to communicate that to people in a way that's understandable. The o- the, the person who made that comment, you know, they were struggling for one reason or another, and one of the things you do with people who are struggling is you make this simple even simpler, because then they can get a toehold. You know? Like, if, if they're really barely able to move... I had one client, you know? He was, uh, he had a hard life, man. He was like 85. He'd fallen off a ladder and broken his neck, and they had to permanently fuse it, so he was basically like this. He could hardly move. He was so depressed. He literally couldn't get out of bed, you know? It was awful. And he was in chronic pain because of his broken neck. And so, you know, the first thing I did with him was get him to sit up for like 30 seconds. That was it. That's where he had to start, you know? And after, I, I worked with him when he was in the hospital. After two weeks, he was walking down the hall and able to sit up and read for, you know, five or six minutes, and he got out of the hospital. He went home, and, but he had to start with the simplest possible steps, and hey, man, you start... This is, the definition of humility, in some ways, is that you start progressing where you can start.