Jordan Peterson EXPLAINS How To Find Your TRUE Purpose..

There is this idea in union psychology called circumambulation and Jung had the idea that you had a potential future self that would potentially be everything that you could be and that manifests itself moment by moment in

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present life by causing you to be interested in things and The things that interest you are those that would guide you along the path that would lead to maximum development. Now it sounds like a metaphysical idea or even a mystical idea, but it's not, it's not a really deep idea. biological idea the idea is something like well, you are wired to automatically be interested in those things that would fully expand you as a well-adapted creature well, there is nothing radical about that idea how well could the In this case, unless If there is something fundamentally defective in you, that would be the situation, it is interesting to think about how that would manifest moment by moment, but the idea is something like

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interest is captured by those things that lead you along the path. of development well, it better be that way, okay, then there is some usefulness in pursuing those things that interest you, that is the call to adventure, let's say it, and the call to adventure takes you to all kinds of places, now The problem with the call to adventure is like what the hell do you know?

You might be interested in things that are a little warped and bent, and it is often the case that when new parts of people come forward and catch their interest, they say they do it very poorly and of poor quality. and then you stumble like a fool when you try to do something new, that's why the fool is the precursor to the savior from the symbolic perspective because you have to be a fool before you can be a master and if you are not If you are willing to be a fool, then you can't be a teacher so it's going to be a process riddled with errors and that's also established in the Old Testament stories because the first thing that happens to all these patriarchal figures is when God kicks. taking them out of their father's house when they are 84 years old is that they get into all kinds of problems and some of them are social and some are natural, others are a consequence of their own moral insufficiency, so they are stupid and but but What it is So interesting is that even though they are dumb, they are supposed to still go on the adventure and are able to learn enough as a result of advancing in the adventure to be able to right themselves. time and then it's something like this, this circumambulation that Jung talked about was this continuum will come back to this this continuous circle in some sense of who you might be, you might notice, for example, that there are themes in your life that you know when you come back across You see your experiences, you have your typical experience that repeats itself and there may be variations like a musical theme, but it's like you're going around in circles and getting closer to yourself as you move through time, that's the circumambulation now. remember for a second we'll come back to that, okay, so imagine something shining before you, it's an interest that's arising and you decide well, first of all, you're paralyzed, you think well, how do I know if I should move forward?

That's probably a stupid idea and the appropriate response is: you're right, it's probably a stupid idea because almost all ideas are stupid and therefore the probability increases that as you progress in your adventure you'll get it right eventually. first. time is zero, it's just not going to happen, so then you might think, well, maybe I'll just wait until I get the right idea and what people do well, so they're like 40 years old and 13 years old, which is not a good idea. So they wait until Godot finally got it right, but the problem is that you're too stupid to know when you got it right, so waiting won't help because even if the perfect opportunity manifests itself. presented to you in your incomplete form the probability of you recognizing it as the perfect opportunity is zero, you might even think it's the worst possible idea you've ever heard of somewhere, very likely, very likely, so Nietzsche called that will of stupidity, which I really liked because he thought of stupidity as if it were something that you have to fundamentally be aware of and work with it and so you can take these tentative steps on your way to destiny and you can assume that you're going to do it wrong. and that's really helpful because you don't have to beat yourself up, it's pretty easy to get it wrong, but the thing is, it's much better to get it wrong than not to do it at all and that's a continuous message that resonates through these historical stories in the genesis, It's like they're flawed people, they should have left home long before they did, and they go out and stumble into tyranny, hunger, and self-betrayal. and violence and but it's so much better than just rotting at home and that's great, that's good, so why is that okay?

So you start your path and you think you are heading towards your star and then you go in that direction and then because you are here the world looks a particular way but then when you move here the world looks different and you are different as a consequence of having You've made that trip and what that means is that now that thing shining in front of you will have changed its location because you weren't very good at specifying it to begin with and now that you're a little sharper and more focused than before, it's going to reveal itself. more precisely for you and then you have to take an almost 180 degree reversal, but it's not because you know you've done it, I mean, you've come this far and there's a long way to go to get that far, but that's a lot further than you would be if you just stayed where you were waiting, so it doesn't matter if you continually overdo it, because if you overdo it, even if you don't learn what you should have done, you will continually learn what you shouldn't keep doing and if you learn enough about what you shouldn't keep doing, that equates at some point to learning at the same time what you should be doing, so okay, so now it's like that, but the good thing about it is that What I think is that as you progress , the degree of overshoot starts to decrease and we know that there is nothing hypothetical about that, as you learn a new skill, like even playing a song on the piano for example, you go crazy overdrive, you are doing everything.

To begin with, there are types of errors and then the errors disappear. There's a great Ted Talk. I think it was about this guy that he installed a very advanced computer recording system in his house and recorded every expression his little son made while he was learning to talk. then he put together the child's attempts to say certain phonemes and put them on the list and you can hear the child wandering madly at first and then after hundreds and hundreds of repetitions he just zeroes in on the exact phoneme so you know that maybe I don't know this, but when children babble, because they start to babble when they are very young, they babble all human phonemes, including all kinds of phonemes that adults can't say, and then they die in their language, so after learning To say English, everything remains. types of phonemes that they can no longer hear or pronounce, but to begin with, everything is there, which is actually quite interesting, but they see that when they learn a particular language they concentrate on the correct way to pronounce it and their mistakes are minimized and each time you learn something like it is and it's really useful to know that too because it means it's okay to wander around stupidly before setting your destiny now you see that was echoed in the exodus because what happens is the Egyptians or the Hebrews escape from a tyranny which is kind of like what you do personally and psychologically when you escape from your previous set of stupidly ignorant and stubborn axioms is like being away from that tyranny it's great, I freed myself from that well so what do you think?

Well, now I'm in the way that no, now you're not, you're in the desert where you stupidly wander, knowing and worshiping the wrong things until you finally organize yourself morally again and go in the right direction, so it's worth knowing too because you think well. I got rid of a lot of things, excess baggage that I didn't need in my life and now everything is fine, it's like no, it's not. You've gotten rid of a whole set of scaffolding that kept you in your place even though they were pathological. now you have nothing and nothing really turns out to be better than something pathological, but you're still stuck with the problem of nothingness and that's exactly why the exodus is structured the way you escape motherhood, hooray!

You are no longer a slave, yes, well, now you are nihilistic and you are lost, it is not necessarily an improvement, but it is, but it is the fore-seeing. It's also helpful to know that because you can also dilute yourself into the idea of ​​imagining that you're trying to become enlightened, which might mean activating all those parts of you that could be activated, you think well, that's just a linear uphill path, you know that's just from one success to another, no, it's not like you're here and you're not there. you're doing it very badly and the first step is a complete bloody catastrophe, it's worse and then maybe you can pull yourself together and you get to a new level and then it falls apart and shakes and explodes, it's worse again, and it's part of The reason people don't get enlightened is because it's marked by intermittent deserts, essentially by intermittent catastrophes, and if you don't know that well, then you're basically screwed because you keep going with your forward movement and you collapse and you think that didn't work. . collapsed is like no, that's par for the course, it's not an indication that you failed, it's just an indication that it's very difficult and when you learn something you also unlearn something and what you unlearned is probably useful and unlearning it actually is painful, you know, let's say.

If you have to get out of a bad relationship, there is no relationship that is 100 percent bad, so when you get out of it, you may be in better shape, but you are still alone and disoriented, and you don't. you know what your past was and you don't know what your present is and you don't know what your future is that's not why people stay with the devil they know instead of looking for the devil they don't know So anyway, the The fact that you are full of failures does not mean that you have to stop and thank God for it, that is a really useful thing and the fact that you are full of failures does not mean that you cannot learn and then you can set an ideal and you will wrong about it, but it doesn't matter because what you are right about is postulating the ideal and moving towards it if the real ideal is conceptualized perfectly well first surprise surprise because, what?

Are you going to do that? It's perfect, so it doesn't matter that it's imperfect, it just matters that you do it and that you keep going, so as far as I'm concerned, it's really positive news because you can really do it well. You can do it wrong, anyone can do it so that's useful, okay, if you were an efficient person you would have just done that, but you're not, but who cares, you know you still end up in the same place and maybe the trip it's even more interesting who knows probably too interesting um jung I began to understand the objective of psychic development by which he means psychological development or spiritual development is the self there is no linear evolution there is only a circumambulation of the self approaching it is how it is how you are falling into spiral into something like that and the thing that you're spiraling into recedes as you go towards it and becomes more and more sophisticated and well developed as you go towards it because you're not going to run out of goals, right?

No matter how much you act together, there are probably, without a doubt, 30 dimensions along which you could act much more together and some of them are not even conceivable to you when you are in your initial uncarved state, let's say.