How to Organize Your Life for Success | Jordan B Peterson 

Terrific advice that reminds me of a quote from Gustave Flaubert, "Be as regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be as violent and original in your creative work."

Listening to a 3min video of this guy is 5 times as valuable and practical than listening to 15min of ANYBODY else expressing the same topic. Hes incredible!

In this one Jordan really wove a detailed and nuanced guide for achieving creative success, each sentence is packed full of info. This took me almost 3 hours to write. Summary: Are you thinking about messing around with complicated and dangerous matters? Before you begin, get your multi-faceted life stabilized by protecting yourself from instability in each area. This stability allows you to seize more risks and opportunities. (Leading to success) How to increase stability by decreasing instability: -Decrease neuroticism by increasing conscientiousness. -Organize life with traditional/conservative values. Ways to increase conscientiousness: 1. Clean room. 2. Organize life. 3. Get a routine. 4. Wake up at the same time. 5. Go to bed at the same time. 6. Establish disciplined habits. 7. Use a schedule (Hold to your schedule not rigidly like a tyrant but consider it as a confidant and adviser.) 8. Design a 7 day week. 8. (Expanded) Schedule items that: - Are meaningful and productive. - Make life feel justified. - Make progress towards goals daily. 9. Discipline. Note: Daily progress, made easier with habits and discipline, adds up over time, especially a lifetime. ____________________________

Three things for happiness - someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

I have been doing this for one month. I wake up at 6 a.m. I put my running shoes on. Go out for a walk or a run. Come home shower, clean my room. Each day or so I add something new to my routine. These simple steps have changed my life.

So I'm a musician and my parents died, I inherited the house and did noting. Then I let a mate move in who's a film maker - suddenly having this crazy person in my house set me into being my father and caring about everything and being more ordered. I've achieved more in the last year than the previous 50. Sometimes you need a sparkplug.

The answer is always clean your room

Thus is true. I learned to break my day into increments of time for a whole year. Each hour had four sections of 15 minutes each. I even scheduled in down time. It waa a turning point in my life. I'm highly creative.

Something I've been focused on lately is the idea that I am not just the artist, I am also the steward of the artist. I need to provide the artist what she needs to feel safe and secure enough be creative.

For neurotic people wanting to be more hard working etc. Three rules for me are you should be doing something productive, going somewhere to do something, or thinking about something worth while. And those really helped me get myself together

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1. Clean your room 2. Organize your life - Schedule productivity (progress in goals) so your life is justified 3. Routine - get up and sleep at same time 4. Establish disciplined habits

Wow, so simple... i wish my parents had tought me some of this, oh well, never to late...thanks Doc.

This is what I'm trying to do. I'm creative and neurotic, but low in conscientiousness. I keep a list of to-dos that I tick off everyday to make-up for that low conscientiousness. So far so good. I still get distracted a lot, but seeing that I'm able to tick off more than half of my tasks, I think that's decent progress. It's hard to go back to routine when something interrupts the schedule like vacations and meet-ups though. )':

Systematically attack your goals & fears with discipline.

“Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.” Norman Podhoretz

My routine will start w watching this every morning till I can follow it :)

This is spot on. I don't think this necessarily only applies to the extremely creative people but also just to people looking to do something creative with their time i.e. Blogging, RU-vid, Dancing, Furniture Making, Acting. Your chance to make money specifically from those endeavours is very low however they can benefit yourself and your financial success in many ways. The importance of being structured and setting aside specific time to just focus on those thing cannot be stressed enough. If only for the potential social aspect of being part of something creative and learning something new, I think everyone should make some time for these things, it gives non-creatives a voice where they perhaps wouldn't have one aside from their career/profession.

God bless Jordan Peterson

Couldn't agree more about: Creative people are blasting out laterally & simultaneously. I stood up to create a startup & I've ruined all dimensions of life by not having close friends, Being not very social. I may be wrong, May be its just me & it's my understanding of his words.

Really glad I cleaned before I saw this. That guilt would have followed me around for days.

This is brilliant. Thanks for sharing.

See also, Jocko Willink, discipline equals freedom

".. Radical reconstruction of your fundamental temperament.." I am highly interested with this idea

nailed it! you can see Jordan has really thought things through.

Thanks for linking the name of the original video!

Clean up your room Organize your life Use a calendar.... discipline, discipline, discipline I feel like I'm on the right tracl

This question defines my life! Good answer...makes total sense.

brilliant! simply fantastic advice!

Thank you for saving my life

This video/question was a great help to me. I am very high in Openness and pretty high in neuroticism as well. But I've also come to understand that I'm rather low in conscientiousness as well so over the past couple of months I've been working to become more conscientious by doing things the right way and not looking for shortcuts or ways to do less mundane work than my peers in any given situation and it certainly does seem to be quelling my neuroticism which is very nice. I still have work to do in that area and in being more schedule oriented but this advice so far has proven very useful to me.

Clean your room, organise your life!!

VERY good advice! I’m on the creative side and found this helpful 😊🍃

Thank you ❤

Amazing video with great tips. Thanks

My mind is blown from this.

Wow what a question! Awesome!

I hate it when a video is cut off just when it's getting the most interesting.

Thank you very much. Really helpful. I was constantly thinking about the happiness of my narcissistic/toxical parents recently. At a point that my bedroom was a mess. Even the book I was reading talked about narcissistic. I wanted to find answer to feel at ease with my parents. But I just getting more en more nervous. Then I read a Manga from a author I like a lot (Inio Asano) and I rediscovered what it mean to take time for myself. I was relaxed after reading his book. And this good feeling make me clean my bedroom. So I totally agree about the importance of cleaning your environment. Taking care of ourself is really important too.

Right... Exactly!

Great topic

useful.... thanks Prof

Mental order to manage things up by scheduling or making plans for your daily task it's right and virtues to do , because you will definitely determine to do things your plans if it comes by heart surely be dedicatedly done....God bless Professor Jordan Peterson it's a brilliant advice

Thank you so much for everything. This video is pure oxegyn for me.

Great .just great

I love cleaning my room. Mrs. Meyers cleaning products are awesome to clean my room! 😎

exactly what I was just advised to do if I am to improve my efficiency and work/life balance as I struggle to establish a "normal" in my grad school experience

Planner is how I organize my life for making an appointment work schedule and meet up with friends and family

Loving these thumbnails

It's mostly about relationships, who you know... you can wake up early every day for decades, be first in your class, if the chosen few around you don't like you, you won't go anywhere.

Hero

Very High Openness, Low Conscientioussness, High Neuroticism here. Spot-on advice from Dr. Peterson. Easier said than done though...

At this moment, 792 likes... 0 dislikes. Good job people, keep it up. 👍

Reminds me of the central point of "Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas"

Very cool

that prefrontal cortex

I wish he makes a video to share how he uses his google calendar in detail.

I'm in the 95 percentile for contentiousness, 85 for openness, and 80ish for neuroticism. So that's nice.

Alchemy man.... its more than just some dudes in a lab. At its core, alchemy teaches transformation on all levels. No wonder Jordan has trouble explaining it.. it can be so esoteric its hard to bring back symbols from the realm. Even intellects such as Peterson and Jung feel Alchemy holds some sort of key. This is why my mind is blown.. Why mention it all? Brilliant.

thank you, I think I see me

1. Try to maintain a very stable PT job, at least. Can't be creative if you're homeless. Ask Ryan Larkin. 2. Quit driving. You'll never get laid, but you'll save a ton of money and avoid the endless time-sucking quagmires of cops and courts. I'm always stunned by the number of highly creative people who deliberatey cut driving out of their lives, Norm MacDonald and Jeff Hanneman come to mind.

I love his advice. The only thing I find a little annoying of Jordan, with all due respect, and probably something bad for most of his audience who generally don't have his language and cultural level, is that it is too intense and he doesn't stop talking at all (just like Chris Nolan's movies, which are exhausting): People need pauses... silence, to think about the last phrase. Jordan always speaks without stops, he's pretty fast inside his mind, and his phrases are really hard to analize sometimes, or to even understand fully. I seriously think his audience catches probably 40% of what he says... if he wants to be educational, he should have a "calmed" dialogue to let us integrate each part of the dialog. Some of us listen to this while drawing, for example, so the "pause the video" solution should not be a solution. His alumni in the university were probably a little bit confused after a lecture.

I hope this comment section isn't dead because I have something to ask. Organising one's life in a traditional way - does that include having the interior of one's room be made of materials representing nature or can it help with the stability Dr. Peterson is talking about. What do you guys think?

I'm in fact high on neuroticism AND conscientiousness, so that's very nice. 😂

Seems those high in creativeness and low consciousness can become more orderly with practice. But can the reverse be true? I rate exceptionally low in creativity and while I enjoy tradional crafts like baking or needlework those hobbies rely on rigid instructions and Orderliness. Hmmm 🤔

Why are creative people unlikely to succeed? What is success supposed to mean for us? Why is creativity very very dangerous? Is it that creative endeavor fails to reach perfection or stardom leaving the creative trier with hurt feelings? Starving artist types can get day jobs, so what is the danger?

For my part, I enjoy having the routine so that the mundane things don't eat up brain cycles, that way when something comes up I have the brain energy to spend on solving a problem or keeping my emotions in check rather than just collapsing or feeling overburdened. I think with any 'craft' that mastering things step by step is what unlocks your greatest potential and mastering your daily routine is a step on that path. Or maybe I'm full of shit lol but it does seem that way to me as a pianist and as a gamer.

Does Jordan Peterson Livestream? I haven't seen any

That thumbnail speaks to me 😋

Anyone know the end credits song?

If you are already high in conscientiousness but still high scored in high in neuroticism? what it means? that you got it under control? or in this case is it something not right?

How about making a channel on metacafe so you can have a RU-vid backup?

Does increasing your conscientiousness also decrease your openness trait? If so this seems like a deadening strategy for an artist.

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Did you read man search for meaning by victor Frankel?

Jung lived too many years in Switzerland :)

another video that should be on The Govt. of Canada website to help citizens improve productivity of one's life . That would never happen as the govt. is afraid of losing the LGTBQ+ vote because of Dr P's view on addressing desired pronouns .

Anyone knows the music at the end of the video??

What is that outro song?

By "organising your life in a traditional and conservative manner" does he mean establishing a routine and sticking to it ?

What if I have nothing to organize because I have nothing? No job, and barely any possessions. I've been getting up at the same time, but I can't fall asleep at the same time. Some times it's 11 pm, and other times it's 2 am.

When I become famous I'm 100% rocking the v-neck and sport coat, who's betting he's got sandals on?

Very high in openness Very high In neuroticism Low in conscientiousness Basically fucked

Can someone please tell me what piece is played on piano at the end of Jordans Clips. Sounds like Beethoven

What’s the meaning of life? JP: “well... Clean your DAMN room man!”

FIRST

"If you want to be creative, which is very very dangerous, and very unlikely to succeed, although absolutely necessary if you happen to be creative..." No wonder he calls creativity a curse. xD

Rick??? Is that you?

The thumbnail triggered me I hate unrealistic rainbows

what is the name of the music? please tell me, tell me at least who composed it, was it peterson himself? i want to know if there is more. i find it an absolutely remarkable piece of music.

Buckos. Your rooms are clean enough when you no longer have rooms.

Do you ever think you can ever become 100 percent sorted?

I'm extremely high in creativity, NY jingle writer professionally, but troves of albums in the rock and jazz genres (loosely) and I compose hours a day. I'm also a visual artist etc etc, also very philosophical. probably a little high in neuroticism, but I'm definitely very high in conscientiousness. I can't find any resolution for my own depressed outlook on career and life, besides maybe leaving society and dedicating myself to music. Lyme disease has made any outside efforts within daily life difficult. People don't accept Lyme disease in the modern world, and the creative music business also died right in front of me, so I have to write terrible music for terrible corporate clients just to get by. I live among unethical people who win by force and numbers. The end goal is to become a consumer who can make others jealous. I see cultural degradation everywhere I look - the things that made life livable and ethical, for example having an active rock music scene, have gone one by one. There was at least a reason to live in civilization.... the only way I could justify joining in with society any longer would be to actively try and change it, bring back rock culture, etc. But Peterson says you're stupid to do that (odd that he does it himself, but ok) and just "join in" and be Jesus Christ if things get too tough. What? If I have to be Superman to get through living in society, what's the point of society? I think culture and civilization should generally be positive, or aiming to improve. I'm having a very hard time in my life with this idea, and JP's advice is confusing and actually toxic feeling. I need more specifics.... his general approach of lumping everyone in categories, as if every mind, time, and place follows the same rules runs counter to his evolutionary approach. I just can't square the guy's contradictions, anyone else "grok" my struggle? Genuinely putting in a lot of effort to figure things out - I have a very high IQ - bought two "self authoring" programs for my partner and I - but I still just can't shake my understanding that we live in a very difficult time, where living in civilization has emergent, novel problems and it might make sense to get the heck out of dodge or something. I've seen the music industry get destroyed, and no one even sees it yet. I've seen the establishment media become lies and white noise, and after years of complaining among incredulous friends, I'm finally seeing that acknowledged with the advent of online media. But meanwhile, through Lyme, I've had to see the medical system become the same kind of denial-ridden, heavy-regulated disaster (it can't even keep up with new threats from nature), and no one acknowledges that yet either. 50,000 bucks out of pocket (who knows including the insurance money), 10 doctors at least, and no answers, only disrespect. Many things like this happening right now. I thought the point of civilization was to help someone out a little? I don't think it always works well. I think it's a nightmare time in some ways and we could fix it, but we have to talk about it, criticize it. JP started his movement by criticizing the left - now he says, "don't criticize society, just get out there and join in". Doesn't square in my heart, man. The lack of specifics or variation in his advice, too, it's just killing me.

the people who would actually do that are probably already doing it in the first place...clean your room? I couldn't think of anything more tedious. you are what you are.

Clean your room

Peter Jordison farted on my egg salad

It's highly unlikely that you will become successful through creativity? What about the thousands of artists of all kinds making a living from it ?

'Emotional stabiliy'? 😂That exists....?

As a man, don't ever revolve your life around a woman. It should be the other way around.