Dr Jordan B Peterson
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What does the oldest sibling feud in the Bible have to do with the argument you keep having with the person you love most? In this lecture, delivered improbably in the city of sin, Jordan Peterson takes the story of a twin who cheats his own brother out of everything and uses it to map a single idea he calls aiming up. Starting from something as ordinary as a fight with your spouse that never seems to resolve, Peterson descends, level by level, into what he argues is really going on underneath: a buried betrayal, a broken trust, and a choice between the desire to win and the harder work of peace. Along the way he explains why the cynic is not the intelligent one in the room, why the wealth of an entire nation rests on something as fragile as a handshake, and how a crook with no reason to hope becomes the father of nations. What he arrives at is not a sermon but a description, of the one decision available to you in any moment, no matter how far down you have fallen, and of the strange acceleration that begins the instant you make it. This lecture was filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 19, 2024.
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What does the way your attention moves across a crowded restaurant have to do with why civilizations collapse? In this lecture, Jordan Peterson opens where you’d least expect a talk about God to begin—with Richard Dawkins, a problem in cognitive science, and the uncomfortable fact that there are infinitely many true things you could attend to and only a handful you ever do. From there he moves through why you’ll pay money to watch a villain on a screen, what a sleeping lion has to do with your paycheck, and why a man who spent seventy-five years in his father’s tent was the one who finally got the invitation. What he’s building toward isn’t an argument for belief in the conventional sense, but something stranger and much harder to dismiss: that you have already placed the wager, every single time you decided what was worth looking at. The only question left is what you’ve been aiming at all along without admitting it. This lecture was filmed on March 4th, 2024, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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What does a punk rock concert full of sneering nihilists have to do with the oldest question about how to live? In this lecture, the final numbers of a long tour, Jordan Peterson begins somewhere unexpected: a Ramones show decades ago, where a room full of people who claimed life was meaningless could not stop moving to the music. That contradiction becomes a thread he pulls until something enormous comes loose, a case that the meaning you insist isn't there is woven into the way you perceive, the way you listen, and the aim you set without realizing you have set it. Along the way he takes apart the fantasy of a life without struggle, asks why a seventy-year-old man asleep in comfort is the least enviable figure in the Bible, and arrives, in the quietest moment of the night, at a piece of advice about love so simple and so practical that you will wonder why no one ever told you. What begins with a joke about slam dancing ends with a question you answer every time you decide what to look for. This lecture was recorded on February 5th, 2024 in Manchester, New Hampshire.
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What does a nervous man on a first date in a crowded restaurant have to do with the darkest impulses a human being can harbor? In this lecture, Jordan Peterson takes a scene so ordinary you have lived it a dozen times and slows it down until something unsettling appears underneath. Every glance across that table, he argues, is already serving a hidden aim, and the direction of that aim quietly decides whether the person sitting across from you is a partner to love or a tool to use. From the biology of why we pair bond, through the four dark traits that psychologists spent fifty years mapping, to the story of two brothers and a sacrifice gone wrong, Peterson traces how ordinary desire curdles into something monstrous, and how the same attention, aimed differently, becomes the foundation of trust, marriage, and everything worth building. What begins as dating advice ends somewhere you will not expect, with a burning sword, a fleeing prophet, and a question you answer without meaning to every time you look at another person. This lecture was filmed in Phoenix, Arizona.
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So, an update on our challenge to the legacy universities: Peterson Academy. First and most immediate: we are pleased to announce the release of our latest course, the Historical Reliability of the Bible, taught by none other than the great Wes Huff, whose popularity as a podcast guest may (should) have made him familiar to you. The trailer is super cool. It's well worth a minute of your time. This course suits our broader purposes extremely well—our determination to showcase and promote what the modern universities have decided to abandon: the greatness of the West; the irreplaceable necessity of the free market; the criminal catastrophe of Marxism; the inestimable value and beauty of traditionally classic literature and art; and absolutely unapologetically, the treasure-house of our Judeo-Christian heritage. I originally promised to produce a world class liberal arts bachelor's degree equivalent curriculum available to everyone for less than the cost of a single university course. We're very near to delivering on that promise, with the more than 100 politically-incorrect 8-hour courses we have produced—and in a mere two and half years. We have gathered the best lecturers in the world. We have produced their courses to a standard reached by no other comparable institution. Our 60000 students are thrilled with our constantly improving platform and its widening social network. Join the education revolution.
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What if the self you keep trying to serve isn't actually you at all? In this lecture, the final stop of a 60 city tour, Jordan Peterson begins with an unlikely admission from the world's most famous atheist and follows it into the two shortest, densest paragraphs in the Bible: the story of two brothers and the offerings they make. From there he traces a single thread through the whole architecture of a human life, why the child who insists on his own way ends up with no friends, why a marriage cannot survive on getting what you want, and how a thousand quiet hours of resentment turn an ordinary person into someone capable of the unthinkable. What he uncovers is not a rule about religion but a question your own conscience has been asking you all along, one that decides whether the world opens up in front of you or closes in. The answer has nothing to do with belief in the usual sense, and everything to do with what you're willing to give up. This lecture was filmed on June 25, 2024, in Mexico City, Mexico.
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I am pleased to release the fourth lecture from my We Who Wrestle With God collection. We plan to make this a Sunday ritual, far into the foreseeable future. Today's topic: How can you become a good person? We're all dreaming up how we should act, and we produce our theories. Our great storytellers aggregate those theories and portray them back to us, in dramatic form. We imitate the heroes of our stories. Thus we move ever closer to being good. We can do this consciously, too—explicitly—and aim at becoming the heroes of our own personal stories. Lectured filmed in Abbotsford, Canada on April 1, 2025
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What does a 75-year-old man leaving his father's house for the first time have to do with the darkest question a human being can ask about themselves? In this lecture, Jordan Peterson traces a single obsession — how ordinary people commit extraordinary evil — from a teenage encounter with books about Nazi Germany and the Soviet gulag, through unsettling visits to a maximum security prison, to a startling personal reckoning with his own capacity for darkness. What he found waiting at the bottom of that question wasn't despair, but something far more unexpected: an ancient story about calling, sacrifice, and the kind of adventure that makes the weight of being alive feel worth carrying. The story of Abraham turns out to be less about faith in the conventional sense and far more about a question you already know the answer to — whether you're listening.
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I sat down with a couple whose young son received a devastating diagnosis. What followed was a powerful conversation about resilience, responsibility, and the mindset required to lead your family through adversity. Watch my new series, Parenting, all episodes available now on DailyWire+
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The newest course on Peterson Academy releases tonight at 8pm EST, Dr Jordan B Peterson's nine-hour course: Personality and Its Transformation. In this course, Dr. Peterson presents a comprehensive exploration of personality psychology, integrating perspectives from psychoanalytic, humanistic, existential, and neurobiological traditions. The lectures weave together insights from classical thinkers like Freud and Jung with modern psychological research, examining concepts such as the unconscious mind, personal transformation, and the role of dreams in psychological development. Through discussions of the hero's journey, personality traits, and the integration of various psychological frameworks, the course offers a unified understanding of human personality development, combining ancient wisdom traditions with contemporary scientific findings to illuminate the processes of personal growth and transformation.
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