The interviewer is so patient. The time and respect he gave JP is just incredible and this is exactly what gave JP the opportunity to formulate his thoughts and speak from the heart as well as his mind. This honestly had me in tears.
4:34 "Even in the revelation of their triumph, the initial depth of their despair". Just how Peterson is able to say such a beautiful line like that in an interview is amazing
This is the 1st video I found when searching for Jordon Peterson. I love that he shows his vulnerable side as well. He's brilliant, and he always has life lessons to share. I always learn new ways of handling certain situations. The world is a better place with Mr. Peterson in it! 🇬🇧 + 🇺🇸 = 💗 Incredible interview! Thank you 😊
Love this man, I know so many people look up to him so its brave of him to show his true emotion, to show people its ok to be sad even if he isn't intentionally he's still helping people.
I had never cried until I lost my only son in a house fire and could not safe him.A older man I worked with one day when I broke down and finally cried, said it's OK. , let it out. Men can cry to!. I've. Always remembered that. This man is awesome, been watching his emspational videos sometime.After seeing his love for his fellow man, I realize the older gentleman was right!!
I am sorry to hear about your loss. It must be terrible to lose your own child. I agree, my little sister of 19 years old is depressed and suicidal. And I thought days, weeks, every minute about her and I panicked. I had several panick attacks. I broke down, cried alot, I hadn't cried in years. And it's alright to cry, to let it out.
@@Christian-cy4bm hey I've dealt with this exact situation too but it is my younger brother, I hope you're doing better now and I hope your sister is too, I know the pressure is really heavy on you, you might feel responsible for how your sister feels, just know you're doing what you can, you're there for your sister and you feel deeply for her, God bless you and your sister and entire family, there is hope for recovery and change and thriving.
We all forget that the people we look up to n seek out for direction in life are jus as troubled as we are.. broken doesn't begin to describe the way he feels about the world. A man that doesn't want to b in the fight but still swinging that sword with all the strength he can muster! We are privileged and not worthy of such heros. Thank you sir! We will fight with u
When you feel that much it is literally impossible to hide. I live that everyday as a highly sensitive person. Constantly triggered by happiness, sadness, generosity, vulnerability. The emotional overwhelm often results in headaches and pressure in the head. The tears literally cannot be controlled. It is both tiring and relieving.
I love that, at no point, did he apologize for crying. This is such a common behavior because so many people feel shame when they’re vulnerable like that. Not him. He runs headfirst into every emotion as needed
I love his brutal honesty. He is the only one who can word it as beautiful as he does. It makes me weep as it touches my heart. I might not always understand every point he makes, but I'm glad I'm able to relate to a lot of the emotional side that he talks about. 💜
You see he picks up on the interviewer being unsure and uncomfortable and gives him an authentic smile to set him at ease. Even when he’s seconds away from totally falling apart - Peterson still made sure this person he barely knows was OK.
I re-watch this evry few weeks and it always breaks me , and tells me that i need to keep going and i need to find something that truly just helps otherss and i hope i can do that one day
It made me really emotional when he cried like every two seconds 😢 the pain im feeling is unlike anything ive ever experienced in my life unbearable 💔 😞
So many people look to Jordan for answers, assuming he's so put together that he isn't facing life as any regular man. I get the image of Atlas holding up the world. Father's understand this, people who have been through trauma and pretend to be OK understand this, any leader understands this and anyone fighting and too afraid to back down understands this. My philosophy has always been be strong, take a moment of weakness to release and be strong again. It's all you can do sometimes and eventually things change and you might be a little tougher, a little more resilient and a lot wiser.
Dude wrote a rules to life book while he was suicidal and popping pills and his ontology is absurdly reductionist. People need to find someone who's worth looking to for answers. This guy is poison to society.
@@kanebross7975 Very ignorant take, you can look to someone for wisdom even if they don’t have all the answers. It goes back to the saying “do as i say, not as I do.”
@@kanebross7975 A suicidal junkie might know a thing or two about burdens. It's easy to take advice from someone who has their shit together as they look successful from the outside. I was in a wheelchair for a year and it took 2 years to learn to walk again after fracturing both my legs and back. So I know about addiction (pain pills, and I'm free of that shit now) and losing everything from career to all your money. But I also know about how to build myself back up, you'd be a fool to trivialise any of those lessons.
men can cry but it's not okay to be weak. it's not about crying idiot that makes you weak, it's about getting back up over and over again and Jordan Peterson is that man. His persistence and consistence are remarkable.
When someone asks you that question. After you’ve being trying to hold it together for years,months,weeks. And it hits you in the gut, that sinking feeling that you can no longer hold it together. And you feel like you’re crumbling like sand.
It's actually interesting how he's looks sad on his face yet so so dead in his eyes. This man looks exhausted. Almost like dedicating the last decade of his life to arguing with liberal college kids takes a toll on you. I think he needs a break from the Internet for the rest of his life.
good for him, refreshing honest answer in a public interview rather than some superficial dodge of the question or lie I gained so much more respect for him doing that than giving some far from the real soul answer
Dr. Jordan Peterson tears are God's way of cleansing your soul. Dr. JP you are an liberator of a group of people. The Voice. No worries. Jesus the Messiah is the truth, light, and the way. I watch and listen to some of the narcissistic schism coming at you and I believe what is sad are the nay sayers reaching at you with their resentment and malevolence instead of love and benevolence. Dr. Jordan Peterson keep goodness alive. Don't worry be at peace with that. God will show everyone Who He is and Jesus is on His way back. Believe that⚘️
The only way to decide not to suffer is suicide. Until death you must endure suffering. It doesn't mean you have to be defined by how you suffer, and of course you can opt to ignore it and not dwell on it, but let's not kid ourselves into thinking that our psyche is so strong that it can end suffering.
@@drethethinker6418 I respect your view, but am sad for you, and I hope you can find a way beyond suffering. If it helps (and I realise you may have already considered all this yourself) example ways are: (1) To become insensitive to your own and others' emotional experiences. This is the psychopathic frame of mind - things are bad, but one does not suffer since one does not feel. I cannot recommend this approach from a moral point of view, but it is a way. (2) To focus only on what you can control, let everything else go. This is the stoic frame of mind, and one doesn't suffer (so much or at all?) since one resolves the things one can resolve and deeply accepts the rightness and appropriateness of everything else. (3) To become one with everything. This is Buddhist frame of mind, where mind itself is relinquished, along with separateness, and one doesn't suffer because there is no-one, no ego, present to suffer. (4) To reframe earthly suffering to become a precious, treasured gift from God. This is the Christian frame of mind, where one doesn't suffer earthly suffering, since that suffering is a transitory service to God and the world, and a glory which will be amply repaid later. (5) To become defiant. This is the hero's way - one takes on earthly suffering as a challenge to be learnt from, so that through learning one can become 'better' and provide something back into one's community as a sacred gift for which one will be remembered and honoured for ever. These are some of the ways, I am sure there are more. I hope you can find one that suits you and is achievable for you. My understanding of Jordan is that he mostly is aiming for type 5, but that he's been induced to take on a bigger community, and a bigger challenge, than any human can reasonably expect of themselves. I think he'd find more peace if he were to add a little more of type 2, the stoic approach, and I hope he can stand back and find the wisdom to do so, since it's not right, fair or necessary that he suffers so. Such an approach does not require a stronger psyche, just simple humility and self-kindness, together with an understanding that it it only right for others' to take responsibility for themselves, and that it is helpful to them to act in a way that encourages that. I hope that helps, as it is intended to, and all the best to you. Peace to all, have a nice day.
@@davereckoning9530 lol I am not going to spar with you, but all I am going to say is to love and lose is to suffer. Suffering and grief are a part of life and they are a GOOD part of life. Especially since suffering though grief means you had something great to lose and had a chance to enjoy it. Just like suffering to achieve something means you eventually get over a hump. Suffering is normal, like pain, and all these negative emotions....they are not the best part of our existence but they mean that we are alive. Suffering is not something to be ended, but something to be tamed.
@@drethethinker6418 *Smiles* : A good reply! It's great to see you have found some ways to deal with it all. For me (although I too have suffered, many times, in the past) life today is a great wonder and a thing of beauty. And that includes your reply. I wish you all the best. Have a great day.
He has so much weight on his shoulders.But he is the right person who should be in his position.The empathy he has is a true blessing thats why he is a true healer.And I mean healer with the whole dimension of this word.Either be spiritual and or scientific.
Atlas carried the weight of the world on his shoulders. Jordan not to such a similar extent but there are definitely parallels. The degradation of one’s psyche, is not something that happens swiftly. Years of what Jordan has done most likely eroded on his psyche. To him happiness is random, that says a lot…
The antidote to suffering is presence. Happiness is not a feeling it is the background of all feelings. So do not aim for external happiness. Find the happiness, bliss and peace within yourself which is your true nature. Like a blue sky clouded by other emotions, happiness is the canvas on which you paint. Your unhappiness only derives from either wanting to be somewhere where you are not or by being attached to an event in your memorized story of your subjective past. Being consciously present and in the now and practicing this will connect you to this source of happiness and peace. The more you do the more you will feel that sensation in the background of your daily experiences - a reminder of your source and the beauty that lies within being. You are not your thoughts and you are not your emotions.
To see what will happen.... Association of the act with anticipation despite the conscious acceptance of the idea of sacrifice is what brings this...this outburst which feels ...appearing helpless. Sacrifice assumes ownership and thereby control admist chaos, this initiates expectation which then creates the world of probability and possibility, shadowing reality or the perception of it and thus agony arising out of negative outcome and "happiness" coming out a positive, both being random, for the individual. That is karma. You do what you do beacuse what else would you do. Every book you have read, every person (so many of us) you have helped in so many different ways , you do what you could do to the best and provide contribution to this world. To see you, the treasure of wisdom in this reality...felt hard. Dr. Peterson is a gem, and deserves to understand that he is an karmayogi, without being aware of it. Loads of love for this man
These comments can’t be serious. Homie makes himself cry answering the question “how are you doing” and other mundane shit under the guise of being an intellectual. Yap yap yap is all this guy does and you praise him
I disagree. Aristotle points out that Awareness separates humans from animals. The ability to be aware. With that ability comes great responsibility. It is our duty, to ourselves, for the sake of the survival and ascension of the species, to "right" our "wrongs". Where we fail is within failing to act. Jordan knows there is suffering, yet the world is to large. His platform of viewership is enormous. I believe he needs to give more. At the last part of this interview,. I paused the video and am commenting. I don't care why he does what he does. He understands he has such an enormous "gift". He needs to teach these semi- educated/uneducated masses (Nietzsche) how to stop their own suffering and learn to ascend to a level that prevents extreme poverty, extreme violence, extreme overabundance, and the extreme waste of life that we a seem so eager to have become addicted to. I am grateful that Jordan gives emotion freely in this interview. It shows me he is most certainly human. With great power comes great responsibility... Galileo is a shining example. He risked his life for our own sake. To educate us further and to advance Copernicus. Galileo risked his life between 2 popes and the Roman inquisition, to show us what we were unwilling to see. Oscar Wilde did something similar. Susan B. Anthony did something similar. Gandhi did something similar. Martyrdom and the act of bearing witness, for sake of knowing what is best for mankind. I am homeless and have witnessed so much unnecessary death and suffering, because my country believes that homelessness is needed. When is the last time any of you couldn't sleep, knowing the scores of homeless people in your own community, sleeping in the snow, rain, cold, starving, even having to resort to crime just to properly "qualify" for shelter (a jail cell)? I deeply would like to work with Jordan, to hopefully convince him where to really put his efforts. He needs to help teach these uneducated societies how to "clean up" their own mess How to properly become accountable for their actions and furthermore, how to equate the human experience into something far more sensible than overabundance (the rich) and poverty (the poor).
Breonna Taylor. Trayvon Martin. George Floyd. And that's just on the "cops have too much authority and citizens do not maintain 'due process'" reality. Is that a delusion? Sadly, at least those people were correctly documented and honored, after they became deceased. Are the homeless in this country able to correctly be accounted for? How do we correctly count and document the dead homeless individuals in our community? We don't. They don't have a residence. Some do not carry identification. Unfortunately, homeless people that perish on the streets or in an abandoned house or in a dumpster or fall dead due to hypothermia or health issues are the "John Doe" and "Jane Doe", to be taken to a morgue, and to be cremated or buried, with no gravestone and no honor. With no one to claim them. Is this a delusion? Read Aristotle, Nietzsche, and C.S. Lewis, as well as Bible or Quran and come back when you decide to want to educate yourself, with the suffering your community endures. Daniel Byrd died in Macomb County Jail, in 2015. He tripped balls for over 12 hours on methadone, while being in jail for a nonviolent offense. Who gave him the methadone? He was tripping balls for over 12 hours? And no one noticed? We tax payers paid for his improper treatment. Is his life and death a delusion? And again, at least it was documented, or else he would have been treated like the dead homeless people in my community. They die. They are nameless. They have no one to claim them. No one to honor them. And they are forgotten. It is all very unfortunate. In my community, all "temporary rotating shelters" have been closed, due to COVID-19. There are currently only 2 shelters available for men in Macomb County, MI. The homeless have nowhere to go. I have nowhere to go. And very few, if any, actually care.
@@codydavidyates72 I appreciate the compliment. I disagree with how we justify (as a country, community, as individuals and as a species) suffering. Jordan Peterson will be in Detroit for the next 8 days. He is selling tickets to see him speak at $90 a piece, for 8 days. That prevents the most vulnerable class of people from gaining any kind of proper insight, through Jordan Peterson, as the "medium". I would love to sit down with this guy, but there is no access. I have to have a phone and internet and money and a job...I am homeless and was hit by a car. Whole populations of people go hungry, starve, are victimized and are at the center of the word "suffering". All Jordan has to do is be brave, like any general must be on the "battlefield". With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility. He isn't the only individual that I expect to balance out the imbalance of overabundance and lack of abundance. It is unfortunate. I've read his 12 rules book. You have to be given or have earned or be lucky enough to come across the word "Opportunity". You have to be able to recognize what an "Opportunity" is. If I am homeless and now I am housed each night at a place where I am viciously attacked, is this the word "Opportunity"? If there is no "Civility", then how can we recognize what "Opportunity" actually is? Especially if our lives are at risk...I mainly disagree with these people that are praised by people who have an overabundance of opportunity and that, just as well, have never had the "luxury" of having little to no opportunity; to flourish, to love, to be appreciated, to have purpose, to freely exist, in a way that is openly protected by the community. Violent felons are not protected by the community. Felons, just as well. Homeless people. People of specific "ethnic" origin. Disabled (physically and mentally) people are claimed to be protected. That is most definitely not the case. Jailed people are not protected. Children are not protected. The community cherry picks morals and ethics and obligations, to the narrative that the community agrees upon, and it is so difficult for all of to agree on how best to protect each other, from the harms of the community itself. Anyhow, I think Jordan should not be charging $90 a ticket to only allow people who are not impoverished to have a chance to "hear his words" on issues that I have firsthand knowledge of. Metaphysics by Aristotle answers this with "why does the manager of the individuals digging holes have more prestige than the individuals themselves who actually are digging the holes?"
@@JohnSmith-ue1du Unfortunately Jordan still has a family to take care of a family I might add that suffers greatly from autoimmune disease. He has a duty as a father and a husband to at least help provide for his family. Also if no one has to spend $90 I guarantee you his speeches would get crashed by those who hate him and his message. But to have to spend $90 to get that done requires a lot more conviction and malice to go through with. And lastly I want Jordan to charge for these tickets. I feel like the absolute bare minimum this man deserves for the obviously incomprehensible amount of moral and intellectual stress he has to go through daily likely even hourly. It takes a lot out of him to do interviews especially ones like cathy newman ect. He at least deserves to be able to provide for his family and perhaps leave some small inheritance for his grand kids. If we take away the money even how does he travel to other countries? How does he pay for everything he needs to go to these various places. Unfortunately and I empathize with your situation greatly. Things in this world are not free. I'm also not sure homeless people need to be told to pull themselves up accept responsibility and to pursue their goals in life. I am sure each homeless person is quite well aware of what they need. Being homeless you are likely constantly reminded of that which you do not have. Homeless people have much bigger issues than gender identity politics. And I really don't think homeless people have the time to give even a remote flying fuck which rat is in the white house. That doesn't provide them shelter for the night or put food in their bellies. Everything Jordan would have to tell homeless people they would either already know due to their situation. Or it would have such little meaning relative to what they need to be concerned about on a day to day. I wish it was simpler. But to ask any more of a man who constantly looks dead in the eyes and breaks down over the overwhelming amount of suffering in this world especially thanks to his so to speak stardom his intake of the negativity humanity generates is even higher than it would be as a clinical psychologist. To ask any more of a man like that is simply asking him to break. He is doing the best he is physically and mentally able to. Finally there is simply no justifying homelessness but there's nothing I can do to change it. The world is a cruel and unequal place. I may not be homeless but my life has not been kind. Drug addict and physically abusive parents. Backstabbing lovers and dishonest friends are the only stories I have to tell. And the more cruel part of the joke is within 2.5-5 years I will be dead. Cancer. I am 23. My doctor is not confident I can beat it. For a host of reasons I won't get into but the emotional negativity my life generated will make fighting this all the more difficult. I hope your life improves John and you can find some stability and hopefully a job or preferably a career so you can find some semblance of peace from time to time.
You should stop wasting time on passive aggressively putting people down like this and instead try working on your NPD before your self righteous God complex pushes the few people left in your life away too. Ironically, JP is a great person to help you deal with your out of control mental illness. You sound like someone who doesn't have any self confidence. You rely on being passive aggressive because you don't have a way of actually defending any of your beliefs outright and want to hide behind fake confidence.
@@DeathmetalPersian standard defensive pro JP response. He's not Jesus man, stop worshipping such a dysfunctional man who shouldn't be telling people how to live. His 2nd rule was literally telling you to "take your meds. Look at where it got him
@@RodJeez the fact that you think I'm defending JP and not just you making fun of a human suffering has done nothing but prove my point. Go back to r/Pol you self righteous cultist. I'm not even a conservative, you are just a garbage human being who relishes in the suffering of others. Void of all context and empathy just to raise your own ego.
I would love to meet jordan Peterson, in person on the street, oh boy would I have a story to tell him, You must cry, think of something to trigger that, anything.
