Jordan Peterson on the Purpose of Life 

Transcending from Psychology to Philosophy, what an amazing professor Mr J. Peterson is, as he educate us with real knowledge, amazing analysis, life experience and empirical evidence.

Choosing my path with courage and honesty and humility seems to help.

In world full of options, I want to take a moment and say Thank You for all of your efforts, Professor ! 🙏 You are so humble. Thankyouu!

My personal philosophy for life: Maximize the struggle Minimize the suffering.

It’s never too late to find your purpose. I retired 3 months ago (age 68). Thought for sure I would truly find my purpose and what God meant for me to do. Beginning of this month I found out that I have a rare form of lymphoma and will begin chemo next week. I want the balance of my life to be proof that God is love.

I just met with my priest about a task I feel called to complete and needed the encouragement to push through the hard parts. Thank you, Dr. Peterson. This was holy timing for me, and I’m sure for others. Let’s all keep going!

At 52 I can attest to the fact that you are correct. I regret all the things I should have done . The absolute worst part is that I fully knew all the right things to do but I was spoiled, I'm lazy and im a pessimist. See even though I'm a smart person I was aware I was making bad decisions so I feel like that makes me extra super duper stupid.. Normal stupid people have an excuse...I do not.

The Meaning of life I doubt whether a doctor can answer this question in general terms. For the meaning of life differs from man to man,from day to day and from Hour to Hour. What matters therefore is not the meaning of life in general but the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment. To put the question in general terms will be comparable to the question posed to the chess champion "Tell me master,what is the best move in the world"??There simply is no such thing as the best or even a good move apart from a particular situation in a game and the particular personality of one's opponent. The same holds for human existence. One should not search for an abstract meaning of life. Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life. Everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfilment. Therein,he can not be replaced nor can his life be repeated. Thus everyone's task is unique as his specific vocation to implement it. -Victor Frankl Man's Search for meaning.

📌Friends, I hope this helps someone who needs to hear it💜 According to many Near-Death Experiences, we come here to learn about love *experientially* and to *apply* what we learn. A soul cannot do that in the ethereal realm because everything is perfect there. To understand the light (love), one must experience darkness; one cannot truly know what a thing is until it has been contrasted with its opposite. I believe we choose to come here, and sometimes not just to learn, but to help others (to teach). Heaven is home, but once we've enjoyed basking for eons in perfect heavenly bliss, we might look forward to a new challenge/adventure in this amazing universe. I think the soul takes on these 'lives' just as we opt to read books or watch movies - sometimes a comedy, other times a drama or thriller etc., - but all for the sole purpose of learning to love. So please don't fear the process; God knows what He's doing. Don't be a backseat driver! 😊 However, I do believe that it's *imperative* that we learn to love (mercy, compassion, forgiveness, kindness, fortitude, equanimity, etc.), otherwise, experiences and even lives may *repeat* until we do so! Understandably, God always gives precedence to the soul over the body. Once we've overcome all our challenges, I doubt we'll come here too often, if at all. I believe that an important thing to remember is the 'golden thread' that seems to run through most NDEs; namely, we are a part of God (His children), we're eternal, we're loved beyond measure, and we come here to learn to love. Thank goodness it's designed in such a way as to always feel like the first time! Strive to be the best version of yourself in thought, word, and deed, and you may be surprised by the abundance of blessings that come your way. Give it a try and see for yourself! I wish you the very best in life! 💜 "To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better... To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." -Ralph Waldo Emerson💜

It’s a shame we can’t be friends. (Friendliness will get you across.) ✌️

Honesty, Courage, and most importantly, Love.

Speaking as well as listening you are truth that I have been trying to decipher.,? Thank you Lord for Jordan B Peterson, in Jesus name amen.

I am now looking for a new purpose in my life. Looking back, many years ago I drew a mental picture of myself ,surrounded with targets. I was in the center of a large circle of placards, each placard represented a way to go. I couldn't decide with target to shot at/for. Somehow, years later, I found one that worked for 25 years and then disintegrated. So now I'm back to looking for a new way. I haven't a clue which way to go. I'm 76 yrs old and miserable. Life seems pointless. It is pointless at this point. I need a new hobby or something into which I can throw myself.

Serve God with good works. That is everyone's life purpose.

Did he say anything actually or just string together a lot of words?

How Human Nature Works Human nature is the desire to receive, also called “desire to enjoy,” and it functions by receiving what is beneficial to itself and rejecting what is harmful. Everything in our lives is built upon this calculation where we first try to distance ourselves from harm, and then seek how to draw ourselves closer to what is beneficial. Human nature also includes a multilayering of systems that work simultaneously on still, vegetative, animate and human levels. One of those systems is our bodily one, which operates involuntarily. If our bodies are healthy, then they know what is good for them and draw that goodness to themselves. After the bodily system, there is the emotional system, which also functions relatively according to instinct. From the emotional system, we move to the mind, and from the mind to the intellect, and so on. That is, we have systems over systems that concurrently work on receiving what is beneficial and rejecting what is harmful. Such is human nature and the essence of our lives. Our every desire, thought and action operates according to the calculation, “How can we receive what is most beneficial to us and reject what is harmful?”

Maybe the real purpose in life we have been searching for are the friends we made along the way 😀

Purpose of life: To know and love Jesus in this life and strive to be with Him in the next.

I am so grateful I was given existence. I think that existence comes about through God creating the human beings.

This one was deep. This man thinks about things.

Imo, The existence existing for the sake of its own existence is perhaps the reason for it being here, but I wouldn't know... \o/

If anyone can break down his point at 6:00 min for me I’d really appreciate it. The bit about time laying itself out according to our ethical choices. I’d like to know more about that and he goes a little further with it but yea if anyone has some info lmk

Whhoooossshhh. Another JP vid that went completely over my head.....😂

The purpose of life is to evolve, (to become closer to God) and then to pass on a head start to your little ones.

doctor Peterson is God's treasure and we still need his brilliant mind with us 😢bless him

One of the reasons people question whether or not there's a purpose to our life - or anything - is because it's built out of our modern models of the world. Aristotle included final causation in his Metaphysics but we seem only to concern ourselves with efficient and material causes (and maybe formal on a good day....)

That was really helpful to me, the sin of omission you fleshed out. I had an opportunity I missed with a girl, twice now with two different girls. Those doors are shut and I'm left to figure out how not to hate myself (and my brother who made the most of his opportunity with one of them) and somehow figure out how to move on. Not give up on life...and love.

Imagine being so great you literally get paid millions to talk to people through various channels-genius.

I believe that I have participated a lot as an OBSERVER as well as a CREATOR and now in my mid-sixties I am surprised to discover that healing myself from all the most difficult challenges I struggled through so I can simply accept myself for who I genuinely am and enjoy just BEING is my number one goal! Before, I was always BECOMING... becoming something... fitting into a character mold, seeking approval and merit, but NONE of this matters anymore. I wish I could have just started out being SUPPORTED AND VALUED for who and what I was to begin with! It's actually a bit sad to think about.

Will probably watch this on repeat until everything sinks in.

This is the man you once were. This is not you, because you ran from yourself. You are fighting the wrong fight on the wrong battlefield. To make things worse, you joined the enemy as a traitor of yourself.

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"Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path." -Baz Luhrmann

A life well lived, well that sounds impossible to achieve. There's no purpose to pursue, there's only regret and in the future only more regret, and more regret and more regret. Because no purpose ever appears in my mind. And my heart is silent and dead. My soul clearly gone. I have wasted whatever faint potential I could have had, and now there is nothing. Every day when I wake up I instantaneously want to die. I hate every single second of consciousness. Being conscious is hell, it's literal hell. I don't know how every single human being doesn't want to die all the time. I only wish I was never born. Life is just not worth it. I hope I get a heart attack some day, rather sooner than later. I'm ready to be done with this crap.

The goal of life is to worship Allah alone, who has no partner, and to comply with His command "I did not create jinn and humans except to worship Me."[Quran 51:56]

0:50 PHILIPPIANS 2:17 Yes, and if I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. TIMOTHY 4:6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. 7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. The Apostle Paul ✝️ 👊😔🥹🫡😎

It may behoove you to consider the following. DNA is a storage medium. The information stored is a recombinant aggregate spacetime differential. The observer effect (physics) suggests that mere perception alters the flow of exterior reality in subtle ways. Epigenetics suggest that attitude reorders the fundamental building blocks of a lifeform's internal reality. Therefore interaction with consciousness alters reality both internally and externally. It is therefore reasonable to assume that the purpose of Life writ large in the Universe it to differentiate spacetime (no other known force can), and the purpose of consciousness within that framework is to actuate the differentiation.

i will make the most of my life, i choose the path of pursing weightlifting, praying, i will the master the art of humbling myself, and disciplining myself

If information is reduction in uncertainty (H = -Sum(p*logp), I = -p*logp, see Raymond W Yeung 2008 or Jones and Jones 2012) then it would seem informational and material reductionism lead to opposite places. Material reductionism leads to unexplainable nothingness. Informational reductionism seems to lead to infinite uncertainty and chaos, from which order is naturally going to emerge. When we talk about the future being potential if the past has brought information into being and filtered the chaos and narrowed down what the future truth can be, then the future is potential because it can be reduced to what's left to filter out. There could be objections regarding conservation of information but I think the physics treatment is different from the information theory treatment so the above (very, very abridged) speculation may still be possible

The problem today is we are willing choose to live our lifes void off our creator and neglect the authority of God's word. God's word is the light we undoubtedly require to enable us to find our purpose in life. Today our god is our identity which is foolishness beyond measure. We are not random beings that just happened when we were created we had purpose in our development. Its not just marry , get a car ,buy a house, become " successful " whatever that means . There's a word in Bible for that vanity. And that was the who God blessed with the greatest gift of wisdom. Seek 1st the kingdom of God. You must be born again or you will not see / understand the kingdom of God . Peace be upon you . SS7

What do you feel that you produce daily? feelings! Where do these feelings go after they are produced? I helped you solve the mystery of what is the meaning of life, and you have to think and complete when, why, how, and in what feelings chips are used after producing them After death, you will move to a larger body to be a larger factory after qualifying and training in earthly life The greatest production in the afterlife, where will it be? Hell? Heaven? The majority, 99%, will not go to retirement Because in the first place they were employed in the factories of the dark power Why did they accept work in dark energy? Imaginary offers in the field of everything if they accept This is a trap!! Yes and no. It contains instructions that must be read before recklessness By whom were they hired? One of the leaders of the dark force !Who, how and where ?do you have eyes, hearing and mind? You are responsible I want the opposite. Yes, everything has its opposite! Only one has no opposite! The important thing is that the opposite of darkness is light. Work in it is boring, limited and hard. They do not give a pension. It is almost slavery, but there is a retirement in the end that is very tempting and has no limits.

The purpose of our Life is the same as Jesus. (He came and showed us in person what to do) Faith Love Teach/Testimony/Lead and Sacrifice.

My new goal for life is to die without directly killing my self as I see it as sin and God explained. Like JP said. I had enough, not life but people and stupidity in this world. I have seen too much of it that I need to get it done and over. I want death as it is opening something better. This world is not doing it for me. How is the question?

The purpose/meaning of life is to get born again. Chances are that those that disagree will be unable to place their right palm on the KJV and say these words once only in a calm coherent manner-> I refuse refuse to be full of demons.

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There is no ONE purpose for 8 billion different people. Everyone has their own purpose. You must find your own. For some, it's easy. For others, it takes a lifetime. Either way is okay as long as you treat yourself well and enjoy the journey as well as you can.

I wonder if Socrates (or anyone for that matter) would have felt as easy letting go of life if he didn't believe in an afterlife. Easier to die when you think your soul is immortal.

Bullshit, The purpose of life is just to worship the creator in the way that he already sent and revealed to us. Yes my friends, as simple as this.

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Thank you for this, Jordan 🙏💛

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When they take your money you will know it's time to stop??????

Whats the point of doing anything if its just to feel a certain way?

Oh God I love everything dr peterson talks about in this lesson I feel so privileged to be hearing what Dr peterson is saying in this time in my life, everything is so prevalent at present. Im just going to watch this video again just hear it for the second time maybe the third time will be nessesary as well,

This guy is a great explorer of the human psyche.

It is never too late for you to really find out the purpose for your life. ❤

Often I wonder about "the purpose of life" it always comes back with "life needs a purpose?" or "do I need a purpose?" This is when my life flashes retrospectively... "why?" in the end we still wonder if we had chosen a different path, although the path we chose was a good one according to society, the status quo, faith, family and friends. The paradox follows us all the way through. My mother chose a career which brought her great fortune, she lived in abundance and yet on her death bed wondered about the purpose of her life. Does the word "purposeful" means purpose? If I live my life with consideration for others, giving what I can and helping when I can, is it not a purposeful life? Although some people are not even close to middle class, and may never reach that level, do they ask themselves "what is the purpose of my life"? The only reason I asked myself that question...it was introduced to me. I'm quite content to have a life. Whatever happened to being alive, gratitude, good physical and mental health? The way society is going perhaps we need to redefine the word "purpose" I'm just saying. 😘

The purpose to life is to find purpose in life and l😮fe in purpose. - Finky The Philosophic .Circa 2000’s.

The purpose of life is to leave your DNA.

Only the Giver of Life knows the real Purpose of Life. Only the Creator knows the real Purpose of the creature.

so living on memories is a reason to live?

Purpose? We can "believe" (because of religious indoctrination) that the universe was created ... or we can "believe" (because of scientific theory) ... that the universe always existed. But we don't "have" answers to prove that either system of belief, is true. From the book Albert Einstein … THE WORLD AS I SEE IT An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise: such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls. It was the experience of mystery-even if mixed with fear-that engendered religion.

The purpose of life is obvious. Survive and reproduce. No scientific process is required to establish that purpose. We observe that life is totally dependent on survival and reproduction. If just one of Jordan's many evolutionary ancestors (or of mine) had failed in that pursuit, he (or i) would not be here. But some feel that purpose, a obvious knowable reality, must also be accompanied by "meaning". "Meaning", even if exist apart from as an example of analgesic neurotic ideation, is not only unknown but is also among the UNknowable unknowns. UNknowable unknowns include e.g. what if anything lies on the output side of a black hole, whether god does or does not exist, or whether the Set Of All Sets can or cannot contain itself, etc., etc. People who's lives include feelings of "meaninglessness" are experiencing depression. Depression, contrary to the contemporary prevailing falacious paradigm of establishment classical psychology, is not caused by an absence of propriatary pharmaceuticals, is not appropriately treated via ongoing periodic coach sessions, and is not a sympton of disease. Depression is an evolved selected-for adaptive feeling generated when a human's outcome is not matching his/her expectations. That feeling contains the following message: Do one or both of the following - change your expectation(s) and/or change your environment. Once a sincere effort to make those changes is recognized, feeling(s) of depression dissolve.

The ñew hunger games?

@0:04 I CAN TELL YOU WHAT IT ISN'T!!! TO ALL THOSE DESTROYING MY VERY EXISTENCE!!! IT'S NOT ABOUT THAT!!!! *OKAY???*

Life purpose is to freely choose to have high valued relationship with the creator , he made you learning creature so that you can understand his blessings to you and have the informed consent of being in the highest level of love with i.e love to the point of worship

True the word.

The purpose is to live hand in hand with mother Earth, mother nature. Not to live in the evil world of possession and ownership, greed and pride. Live in love and compassion for one another and the earth. Not the world, but earth! ❤Remember your true purpose, that is why you are unhappy. You are fighting your nature. Don't want anything of the world. Want things that money can't buy. ❤

The purpose of life is a sentence humans have made up to make sense of our lives. But I believe, we all know pain, the feeling of pain makes everything feel real and anything that causes physical pain is where we should be steering clear from as much as possible. Mental and physical challenges are a different story and something that should be embraced and attended to to build oneself. Mr Peterson says it way better though.

To be created in God’s image means to act like God. When Jews observe the Sabbath they are remembering two events , that God created the world and God brought the Hebrews out of slavery. The basic lesson is to be positively creative and bring others to freedom to help them maximize their potential. But it is primary goal to use energy to become the best version of ourselves and when we are that best or at least a better version we contribute more to the world

I'm interested in your opinion of the fact that humans have a short life span, so if humans were to live longer, for example 500 years, how would that influence us psychologically? We certainly would have the time to learn a lot more about everything. 🤔

Opportunities without dignity are meaningfull.

The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.

Several views in just a minute.

So in other words, the meaning of life is to be satisfied with your death.

He drives me crazy.... I love this super human....

Careful articulation and what you bring forth is good!

Time I introduce to to what I call the architects paradox

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Be YourSelf and Kind to others. 😊❤

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life sucks ..and then you die

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I am curious why Dr. Peterson has not studied the life of the Buddha, or the various Buddhas, for an inquiry into their teachings would answer his various questions about life

thank you, 💯...

Jordon Peterson is an outstanding man

Geniusly!!!!! ❤️

Do Good 😄

Thanks!

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I love you man❤

People of all kinds please state if your theists, atheists, agnostics or any combination of those and then if willing participate in the test. As well, looking for 5 good moral theist questions for atheists/agnostics. #1 You see a child drowning in a shallow pool and notice a person just watching that is able to save the child with no risk to themselves but is not, is that person moral? #2 If you go to save the child, the man tells you to stop as he was told it was for the greater good, but he does not know what that is, do you continue to save the child or stop? #3 Is it just to punish innocent people for the crimes of others? #4 If you were able to stop it and knew a person was about to grape a child would you stop it? #5 Would you consider an all knowing parent who put their kids in a room with a poison fruit and told the kids not to eat it but then also put a supernatural con artist in the room with the children knowing the con artist will get the kids to eat the fruit and the parent does nothing to stop it a good parent?

Live life to the fullest, and you won’t regret it b/c you would have LIVED. Saved you 7 min 😉

This guy constantly brings me to tears

Potential, potential, blah, blah, blah. Potential in the service of whom? Life is about spending time with your loved ones - friends, family and people who love you. There's no point becoming your 'best self' if no one is there to see you. I hate this kind of sad individualism.

poor mr. p. continues his role as fashion victim.

Be sure to read the 12 Rules for Life

Jordan's unwillingness to give up ingratiating his father's defense mechanisms has him unable to finish the earliest pre-psychological oneness stages of development. Jordan's habitual actions are predicated on the mind of a boy trapped in vicious circles of thoughts and feelings about his father's unconscious meaning-making and emotional reactions. Jordan's identity can't separate from his father's defense mechanisms because that triggers his father's wrath. And Jordan cannot only be subservient to his father's defense mechanisms and wrath because then he cannot function and stabilize.