Fix Yourself | 5 Minute Video
Want to make the world a better place? Start by bettering yourself. Best-selling author and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson explains how incremental daily changes can lead to a better life and ultimately a more harmonious world.
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Script:
Blaming others for your problems is a complete waste of time. When you do that, you don’t learn anything.
You can’t grow, and you can’t mature. Thus, you can’t make your life better.
In my three decades as a professor and clinical psychologist, I have learned that there are two fundamental attitudes toward life and its sorrows. Those with the first attitude blame the world. Those with the second ask what they could do differently.
Imagine a couple on the brink of divorce. They’re hurt and angry. The unhappy, bitter husband recalls the terrible things his wife has done, and the reasons he can no longer live with her.
The harried and disillusioned wife, in turn, can describe all the ways her husband let her down. Each has a long list of necessary changes—for the other person.
Their prospects for reconciliation are grim. Why? Because other people aren’t the problem. You’re the problem. You can’t change other people, but you can change yourself. But it’s difficult. It takes courage to change, and it takes discipline. It’s much easier—and much more gratifying to your basest desires—to blame someone else for your misery.
Consider the youthful activist, making a “statement” against the “corrupt” capitalist system by smashing in the storefront of a local business. What has he done, other than to bring harm to people who have nothing to do with his real problems?
The guilt, doubt and shame he will inevitably feel in consequence will have to be suppressed so his beliefs can remain unchanged. And that suppression will do nothing but foster his anger and alienation.
In the play “The Cocktail Party” by American-English poet T.S. Eliot, one of the characters is having a very hard time of it. She speaks of her profound unhappiness to her psychiatrist. She tells him that she hopes her suffering is all her own fault.
Taken aback, the psychiatrist asks why. Because, she tells him, if it’s her fault, she can do something about it. If it’s in the nature of the world, however, she’s doomed. She can’t change everything else. But she could change herself.
Now, there are people who seem to be consigned to a terrible fate. But most of us aren’t. Most of us have a chance to make our lives better.
But how?
Start small. Ask yourself a few questions: Have you taken full advantage of the opportunities offered to you? Are you working to your fullest capacity at school or at work? Have you, in other words, set your own house in order?
If the answer is no, try this: stop doing what you know to be wrong. Stop today.
Don’t waste time asking how you know that what you’re doing is wrong.
Inopportune questioning can confuse without enlightening, and deflect you from action. You can know something is right or wrong without knowing why.
Start paying attention: Do you procrastinate, show up late, spend money you don’t have, and drink more than you should?
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I had forgotten that Peterson used to not scream his head off 24/7. Guess that COVID-induced coma and all the drugs and meat diet really wrecked his brain just like that RFK Jr brainworm.
The prime of Jordan Peterson.
Thank you! I can’t change the world but I can change myself. Stop today. Fix it
Modern western governments like to make their populations feel like they are victims (conquer and divide strategy) which instills blaming your neighbor for your problem.
Clean your room already
Straight forward, brutal truth spoken by a brutally honest person. ❤❤❤❤❤
When I see the war in Ukraine , and I think of this video…
How can you apply this if you are Ukrainian?
They can't change the world , they can't change Russia
They can't change Putin
They can't change the terror and war crimes that is happening
But they could change merely themselves.
If Only they can do what is right, is going to war Right?
Is stopping them by themselves doing these crimes possible by fighting them off? Can't they stop Russia commit these crimes in the process by themselves to prevent more harm?
Do they need to ask what is right or wrong what is happening?
Because then i realized I cant do anything about it.
You could literally apply this to Social Justice.
People often are blaming others for being racist. But never reflect themselves being racist.
What a very simplistic view from a naïve person
Good advice now I'm trying change .
Clean your rooms mferz
How can JP be simultaneously be a complete moron and yet articulate and highly qualified. To world never ceases amaze me.
you can see this guy is a dangerous right wing extremist.
He gives people hope and solutions.
Why is Peterson on prageru lol
The only good prageru video
I just love this video because it makes so much sense but I would also like to add that fixing yourself can take a bit of work and the help of someone directing your thinking is vital. For example; If there is a pattern of broken relationships in one's life, in order to really "fix it", one needs to understand how that happens. Finding someone that will ask the right questions & direct thinking will help aid in breaking the painful patterns. But it is a practice not for the cowardly, but the brave!
why tf is this weak man propraganda showing tf up on my page .. bye crazy clowns
You cant even fix the world when you cant first fix yourself proper enough before doing so.
No matter what you do, or try to do, systemic power structures still stand in your way, and thay will thwart your efforts.
If you are raped . Don't care about what others think or did . Keep on life.
If you are the rapist. Correct and fix yourself never to be one ever again . Don't care what others do on you. You know yourself best to correct you.
You be asking : what if another thinks there is nothing they need to fix off ?
Don't care. And If you feel you don't need to fix off , that's fine.
But if problems happen to you or others , don't blame others . Think for yourself how to fix yourself.
I have myself.
I can rely on myself.
This was the first time I ever heard Jordan Peterson and this message is for me and it's still for me to this day it is such a great message in Jesus name. Amen
Thank you very much! God bless you all!
Good.
99% TRUE 👍👍👍