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Lecture: 2017 Maps of Meaning 01: Context and Background

Jordan B Peterson

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Brain and nervesMental healthNeuroscienceDepression and anxiety

Jordan Peterson explores the psychological and evolutionary roots of belief systems, archetypes, and their role in maintaining emotional stability.

In this lecture, I discuss the context within which the theory I am delineating through this course emerge: that of the cold war. What is belief? Why is it so important to people? Why will they fight to protect it? I propose that belief unites a culture's expectations and desires with the actions of its people, and that the match between those two allows for cooperative action and maintains emotional stability. I suggest, further, that culture has a deep narrative structure, presenting the world as a forum for action, with characters representing the individual, the known, and the unknown -- or the individual, culture and nature -- or the individual, order and chaos. --- SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL --- Direct Support: jordanbpeterson.com/donate Merchandise: teespring.com/stores/jordanbpeterson --- BOOKS --- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life/ Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-meaning/ --- LINKS --- Website: jordanbpeterson.com/ 12 Rules for Life Tour: jordanbpeterson.com/events/ Blog: jordanbpeterson.com/blog/ Podcast: jordanbpeterson.com/podcast/ Reading List: jordanbpeterson.com/great-books/ Twitter: twitter.com/jordanbpeterson Instagram: instagram.com/jordan.b.peterson/ Facebook: facebook.com/drjordanpeterson --- PRODUCTS --- Personality Course: jordanbpeterson.com/personality Self Authoring Suite: selfauthoring.com/ Understand Myself personality test: understandmyself.com/ Merchandise: teespring.com/stores/jordanbpeterson

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nicolashahnin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?”

I like these ones (and even having attended Catholic high school, it was the first piece of media that made me actually realize how much human wisdom could be embedded in religious texts), but found his 2017 Maps of Meaning lectures more impactful, personally. He uses his archetypal lens on Pinocchio instead of Genesis for the first few lectures. There's a lot of content overlap but if you liked the Biblical series, definitely check out Maps of Meaning. link to this video
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nicolashahnin Hacker News • Recommends

On “What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?”

…y, neuroscience, evolution, and animal behavior, and show that variations of the same archetypal stories appear in non-Judeo-Christian societies all over the world." You can be a hardline atheist and still get tons of value out of these lectures. I also found his 2017 Maps of Meaning lectures particularly interesting, and personally more relevant: link to this video He does a similar thing with the story of Pinocchio instead of the Bible for the first few lectures, which might be more palatable for some. There's a lot of overlap with the Bible series as well.…
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RickSin Hacker News • Recommends

On “New Insights into Hikikomori – People Who Withdraw from Society for Years on End”

…at. So I did, in earnest. Eventually the mask became the face. We are what we repeatedly do. I lost about 6 years before I started doing that, and it took about another 6 to 9 months before I noticed that anything had changed. I have to give a lot of credit to a lecture series I was recommended on HN as well: Maps of Meaning, from Jordan Peterson: link to this video It's weird stuff. Took some getting through. I don't remember what the first guy said that made me stick with it, but I'm gl…
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kleer001in Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: Why the Hate?”

…more detail I can recommend over 120 hours of learning in the following (which I've watched and digested). They'll walk you through the details from the bottom to the top. - Watch Robert Sapolsky's lectures: link Watch Jordan Peterson's Personality lectures: link and his Maps of Meaning Lectures: (or read the book or listen to the audio book) link to this video…
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dagavin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Surviving Depression”

I highly recommend you listen to these lecture series. I cannot overstate the profound effect they had on my life, by giving me the tools I needed to turn my depression around and give me a sense of balance and control in my life. link link to this video
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Yan-solucracyin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: How to fix expectations and set up path for life?”

Watch Jordan Peterson's Maps of meaning course : link to this video , it won't solve everything but it will enable you to understand how to make sense out of life, and how your belief system works, so you can make it work for you.
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8vectorsin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: Will I Ever Recover?”

…great. It's your choice to either hide from it and whither away in regret or face it head on and extract all the value it has to offer. Growth comes from painful reflection on our mistakes. Studying Stoicism and this lecture series really helped me get through the failure of my startup (Which I spent 7 years building and then had to sell for $1). link to this video Note the lecturer is controversial politically now... but this series genuinely helped me put myself back together after my ego was shattered - I am way better off now (and more resilient) and years later building another company which is doing great so far.…
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diyseguyin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?”

news.ycombinator.com though I wish it had a way to collapse uninteresting conversations. Stephen Colbert: link and lately I've been binge watching the Jordan Peterson lectures: link to this video ribbonfarm: though I usually only read the articles by Venkatesh Rao: link also bingewatching lessons on 2x from link . It used to be link but their servers are sluggish most of the time.
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