001 Maps of Meaning: 1 Monsters of Our Own Making (TVO) 

At the age of 27 he helped me realise and articulate what I had always known: working in a retail store for my whole life was never going to let me know the true potential underneath. Nowadays I'm doing well on my degree in mathematics with the aim to go on to graduate school and pursue a worthwhile career whilst building a family with my partner. THANK YOU SO MUCH DR PETERSON

I started to listen to Jordan Peterson and it had a profound effect on me, I'm dropping out of art school to study Psychology instead, I'm in the midst of applying, with me luck

Young Jordan is soo chill.

Spent the day in chaos. This lock-down is hard. By evening, Jordan's Biblical series brought me back to order. Now I am back to work at night. Finishing my doctoral thesis. Listening to this for encouragement. Thank you for motivating me to improve my life Sir.

I never thought I'd ever take a university course. My life never took that path. Thank you for this.

Started with a speech on bill c-16 now I’m here

He had a movie star looks. Extemely good looking and he has got brains too. And he lived up to his potential. He deserves his tremendous success.

Oh my God. I have just officially had fhs biggest epiphany of my life right at the end of this video . I now know the answer to a question I been struggling with for years. God bless Jordan Peterson

I had an epiphany last night, born from decades of addressing my flaws. 1. Pain and suffering are not the same thing. 2. Suffering only exists as one of two consequences for desire. 3. Desiring someTHING is the first step towards suffering, but aspiring to achieve leads to greatness. 4. The happiness in aspiration is not in the goal of achievement and perfection but in the journey to get there. 5. An honest SACRIFICE (not begrudgingly) to somebody or something (God) is not for their benefit but for yours. 6. An honest sacrifice is the understanding that a desire for things that you cannot control (anything within the universe/reality) is foolhardy and causes suffering if you fail. 7. Therefore, the road to Heaven (nirvana, TRUE happiness, rapture, etc.) IS honest sacrifice because you are free from the clutches of desire-induced eternal suffering which is what Hell is desribed as. 8. God does not ask you to sacrifice for Him, rather, he asks you to sacrifice for yourself to free yourself from suffering. P.S. I’m struggling to stay agnostic as things are becoming clearer in my old age, and I used Christianity, mainly, because I was raised Catholic. I am most familiar with it. I still do not feel anything divine (I do feel psychological weights being lifted), per se, but some of the arguments against Christianity seem trivial in the illumination that hit me last night. Even if you remove God from the explanation, neurobiology even agrees with the assessment of desire, suffering, sacrifice, and happiness. The more energy you spend desiring something and not having the object of your desire, the more robust those neuronal circuits become making those feelings easier to activate. This is a positive feedback loop where the more you desire, the easier it becomes to feel that desire...and suffering. Sacrifice is the cognitive admission that that desire is destructive and is the root of your suffering; of your personal Hell. Not a sermon. Just a thought. I was listening to Rule #7, and your discussion about sacrifice was the final piece of a decades long adventure into myself. It rang a bell with me when it reminded me of a conversation I tried to strike up in regards to “gratitude” in regards to government welfare. As it was my first discussion in Facebook Poltiics, I wasn’t fully prepared for the back lash. I never had an opportunity to explain that “gratitude” is inconsequential to the benefactor (a true benefactor, not one seeking accolades), as the benefactor’s motive isn’t to illicit gratitude. Gratitude is for the beneficiary. It is a signal that society is not evil. It is a confirmation that people are good. Without understanding this, the beneficiary will remain trapped in the personal hell of resentment, entitlement, desire, and suffering of their own design. Hell isn’t a tangible place, it is an abstract concept that exists only within the mind.

What a blessing and gift to have this at your fingertips to enjoy and share. Thank you Dr. Peterson.

I wonder if I could listen to Dr. Peterson for an entire lecture. I think I'd get a crush on him and could barely follow the content. Is it just me or is he darn awesome?

Dr. Peterson, THANK YOU SO MUCH for making these lectures available.

Dr Jordan Peterson. I istened to your GQ interview recently. You want to be remembered as an honest man. You definitely are a very honest man. That is very beautiful to see. Have been listening to your interviews irregularly often. You are an exact man with your words. I would love to meet you.

Thanks for putting up so many lectures, Dr. Peterson. A mind needs education like a sponge needs flowing water.

I love Dr. Peterson's work. My only critique of this lecture is that the cosmology of the Medieval Church was functionally different. It was in error not because it followed a biblical view of cosmology, but because it followed an Aristotelian view. To that end the Earth and humanity at the center of the cosmos was not a place of honor or priority, but rather one of humiliation and baseness, thus why Dante viewed Satan as at the center of the Earth. The higher one rose into the heavenly realms, the nearer to God one came. It's right to criticize the cosmology of the period because it didn't correspond to reality, but the "science was settled," as the Church saw it, because the great minds of the ancient Greeks had already solved all the questions that people had.

Just wanted to echo the thanks! I wonder if the students who attended Prof J. B. Peterson's lectures then and now realise they are being taught by one of humanity's greatest minds of the day! Lucky so and sos, haha!

Man, this guys impressive. His intelligence , sincerity, principles, ethics, and ability to convey information is incredible. I understand most of what he speaks about, have many of the same ideas and beliefs, but wish I could speak and convey my own opinions, knowledge, beliefs, etc. as well as him. And, it's not just schooling or his educational background , I've grown up around many well informed and well educated individuals ( at 45 years of age), but absolutely none explains information and beliefs any where close to as well as Mr. Peterson. Its fascinating. I got into some legal troubles a couple of decades ago and, it through a wrench into my being a productive member of society. And, I was fairly intelligent and hard working. Did almost 9 years, for something I actually didn't do, basically came down to being accused and I wouldn't rat on my brother and some of my friends. It is what it is. My point that I'm going for, after doing those many years in prison, you learn ALOT of things about man, human nature, etc..If, hypothetically speaking, Jordan Peterson was given a prison sentence for say something he didn't do, whatever, he would be accepted by a majority of the inmates and, most would befriend him and protect him. Mr. Peterson might actually find that interesting, lol. The guy is fucking sharp, his sincerity and conviction shines through. On of the most impressive people I've ever seen. I'm not a fanboy type of person. If my favorite rock band, author, actor, whatever walked past me in the casino or hotel lobby, there would be a 98 % probability that I would absolutely not go up to the person and talk to them, or ask for an autograph, etc.. But, if I saw Jordan Peterson, I'd make a b line directly to him and introduce myself and thank him for what he does. I suffer from some depression, I guess we all more or less do but, I'm curious what makes him depressed? Anyway, love this fucking guy!!

FYI, this series was aired in 2004 on TVO.

🙏💙🙏 u are a great man for doing this work and putting it online so so many can listen learn and benefit. Thank u Jp🙏💙🙏

At 22:00 there's a mouse! :O

Jordan, truly thank you. Im not insecure or downtrodden in a fairly egalitarian Irish society but I'm fortified by your teachings, guided by sound, solid, accessible signposts to becoming a better man. Personally put you on par with Alan watts and Sopolsky of Stanford for cutting through the fog in my life. *tips the hat*

at least the trains run on time. thats what they said in germany at the beginning of hitler. Hey, has any one else noticed how brilliant this guy is.

This guy is nothing but a brilliant mind a product of great discipline and education of north America way back when, and I just admire him and all he has taught me for free

I remember watching this series on TVO in 2004. There were also some lectures of his on another program called Big Ideas. Thoroughly fascinating stuff. When his name came up in the news more recently I had a hard time believing it was the same person. Anyway, I miss TVO and I'm glad these videos are available.

I wish to god that I could hire you as a psychiatrist. I have had a serious distrust of psychiatrists since I was fairly young, I'd say four years old.. until I came across your videos on RU-vid and Facebook. I'm a 25 year old man. You're an amazing person and for some reason I trust you as a person and a psychiatrist. You're one of my top role models.

Started the book today. Thank you so much for uploading this video!

Thank you so much for uploading. This was brilliant.

I love listening to these lectures...and want to thank him for posting them! brilliant. (& btw, what a handsome man!) and another shallow observation... your voice reminds me of kermit the frog a little? but again, THANK YOU FOR AMAZING lectures!!!

Jordan is like miracle grow for my mind.

What a fantastic lecture. This is a really important and rare interest at this stage of the game, but I have a feeling that this is all about to change

Thank you for making this available sir. I enjoyed it.

I got this equalizer on my PC, and I actually made this audio to be the most coolest professors voice ever...I am listening in a comfort zone with a cig and my books and pdfs in an unbroken progress right now...paramount!!! But what monster have I created in my attachment to this moment????....My own illusion is the monster. The conditioning is the monster. Just to know it is to embrace the monster. Then the monster becomes the power of the new enhanced superhero....ME!!!!!!!

This is very genuine how Dr Jordan Peterson Connected Nietzsche’s supposition about god being dead and the existential crisis following it with the story of Frankenstein😲 thank you so much for these lectures sir!!

so he was young once :3 good to know.

Thanks so much for putting these online! For those like me who did not have the opportunity to learn from such good professors, this is truly a gamechanger. Have you ever read John Grey, "The Silence of Animals?" Just curious.

Unbelievable. So helpful and real empathy.

Yes I m so inspired to read more on psychology because of him....really

Thank you for your help JP

You sound so much younger, it's really weird. I also really appreciate the graphics that appear as you talk, it gives a great visual aid to concrete what you're saying into mind.

Have heard almost a 100 lectures of Dr. Peterson and have just got here, the first lecture of TVO series Big Ideas, the one that started the 12 rules of life book, as mentioned in the book. He has aged well..

No one can hide from the Truth. Truth, will never die. Thank you

Jordan Peterson is brilliant

Love this format. Really easy to understand the material. Seeing the slides on the split screen with the text underneath is really useful. Kind of like the Pageau video, I guess. With the newer lectures that are much more dense, this would work well. I also recommend this series for the basics of the theory.

Think every high school student needs to take this course

Brilliant. Thank you.

Thank you for posting this fascinating series of lectures! I see below that I'm not the only one curious about the opening and closing music. It's beautiful! We would all love to know where the music comes from!

I'm just seeing this earlier videos. This man is a miracle. Is just such a light...!!!! If I ever get to have a third son I'm naming him after this man.

Can't help but find the evolution of his voice peculiar. I thought he would've always sounded like he does now. I'm glad he tonned down his intellectual vocabulary in place of a (yes more rudimentary) more palatable one to get his message across to simpler minds like my own. Thank you, should you ever read this. My generation is in dire need of some direction

TVO is Canadian public tv. These videos are from the mid 1990’s , around the same time as his Harvard Lectures , which are more technical for undergraduates. I think these lectures are what we would call extramural classes in the UK. For the public, not for university students.

Brilliant...Worthwhile to listen to. I’m keen on reading the book. You should be too...

"Jordan Peterson explains Battle Angel Alita". THAT will be awesome.

"What is hateful to you do not to your fellow" Hillel, 1st century AD Jewish scholar

If you dont lose your fear,tha you will have it Losing the fear opens the doors of possibilitys. So if you want to be locked inside your room of fear,than keep the fear if you want to. Losing fear it means walking out of the room,freedom

So Good!

Magnificent

18:18 This brief interlude is brought to you by CHAOS.

Thanks to watching Jordan Peterson video’s I’m quitting my job as a dishwasher to become a ceramic hydration engineer

For the love of order and chaos, someone post the name of the goddamn music

Great lecture. Thanks for posting. I heard you on the Joe Rogan Experience. I plan to start consuming all of the content on this channel. I feel like you are doing incredibly important work. You are the Joseph Campbell of today when it comes to helping humans find meaning in life.

I would be interested to hear Jordan Peterson explore the themes of masculinity in the Oceans movies

so youthful!

It's great to watch Jordan before he was dragged in a sense into politics. Not to disparage his later stance on things, but it's nice to get away from the quagmire of the left and right battle and just listen to good philosophy.

Brilliant. What is the song at the beginning?

Jordan Peterson would you please tell me the name of the art piece used as your motif as i am sure i have seen this before and has meaning to me yet a cannot think why .

This must be from the early 2000's or "the oughts" because there are no laptops in front of the students. No gray hair on Jordan's head. He also speaks a bit slower. Just figured out this is from 2004, according to the copyright date at the very end. I find it interesting that he had the foresight to have these lectures recorded. This was before RU-vid got started. I wonder what he planned on doing with them before RU-vid gave him a platform or soapbox.

I know it was aired in 2004, but does anybody know the year it was recorded in?

"What is it about chaos, that's so terrifying?"

Its sad to see this is the series thats the least watched

I think, if the subtitles/closed captions stop working midst the video (and start at the beginning, though the video still runs towards the end), then one should not offer it at all, or deactivate it, if possible.. so its only annoying and clearly not helping, especially for the ones, who are not able to hear. Am I wrong ?

Very interesting lecture. I am stuck at 17:40 though.

Revisiting this lecture after a few years and the content seems different somehow, perspective?

@jordanbpeterson - Where's that bumper music from? It's beautiful.

Who's this young guy? He reminds me a bit of Jordan Peterson. ;) Seriously, when was this recorded?

Does anyone know when this originally aired?

Jordan Peterson Halloween Extravaganza Speciale!

This video may have been released in 2015, but it is clearly from much earlier; e.g., the program shows Solzhenitsyn as still being alive. That puts this video at least back to early 2008; but Dr. Peterson looks young like he did during his time at Harvard. However, as he is here identified as from UofT, this could not be earlier than Fall semester 1998.

When was that ?

I first heard Dr Peterson his podcast with Joe Rogan. And then I have been listening to his youtube videos, then I came to this and wondered how he looked when he was young. He looked gorgeous. I wonder if his female students had crush on him :D

This video supposed to be filmed in old days, students did not have notebooks...

Anyone know what this song is?

Can anyone please tell me which year this course was taught by Professor Jordan Peterson?

the subs are terribly, terribly wrong. but the talk is amazing

Day 1. First episode.

Looks a bit like young Jerry Seinfeld

One day, I will wake up and find that someone has told us what the name of the music is in the beginning.

Watching in 2017

OMG I just realized Jordan looks like my old Canadian boyfriend when he was younger with darker hair.

Man, I wish I could go back have a beer with Young JP…

Oh my goodness, he's so young here. How long ago were these taped?

I think that when we Make huge leaps in technology, that’s kin to throwing us into a large chunk of the chaos ( that we are actually only meant to have small scoops of). And if these period of time are accompanied by world leaders who aren’t capable of contorting that chaos into order effectively. We get lost in the chaos... makes me wonder.. Elon musk is trying to colonise worlds and we happen to have less than ideal world leaders.

What year was this lecture series presented?

does anyone know what the song/compositiion is that's heard in the intro of this lecture?

Looks very healthy here

The subtitles on this video are totally insane - it is better to watch this without them.

When I see the evolutionary origins of religion I can't help but feel foolish pondering atheism; it's kinda like when you first learn about Santa. Next it's time to put them in the balance and see what has weight.

what if one answered: NO, there is no such thing that "should" never be done regardless of anything?

Is this in a courtroom?

This is like taking bottle opener to one's psycho-spiritual codependency. " new wine and old skins"

Is it me or does he seem way more subdued in these older lectures?

I’d recommend adding some fading transitions.