What is going on everybody, Jake here. I've been gone for a long time, way too long.
It's been like I don't know probably two weeks since my last video, but I'm back,
I'm back to stay, gonna try and get the regular uploads every few days or so (no promises).
We're back today with Jordan B. Peterson's "12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos". I've been absolutely loving this book. Yes,
I've just now finished the second chapter. I'm aware that
I'm a very slow reader, and I'm sure there are dozens of people on YouTube who are making their own
reviews of the book already,
but I've finished chapter 2 and chapter 2 is titled "Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping" and
definitely a very impactful chapter
and I want to read to you very quickly a few sections just a couple paragraphs that I found to be really
insightful and really eye-opening, just like pretty much everything that I hear from Jordan Peterson.
So he opens up the chapter by writing, "Why won't you just take your damn pills?"
"Imagine that a hundred people are prescribed a drug. Consider what happens next. One-third of them won't fill the prescription. Half of the remaining
67 will fill it but won't take the medication
correctly. They'll miss doses, they'll quit taking it early, they might not even take it at all."
So what he's bringing into light here is the fact, and I don't think people think about this a lot,
but how we seem to lack- we have this inability to take care of ourselves
and he brings up an example in the next one, page 33 here. He says- and this is the amazing thing-
"Imagine that it isn't you who feels sick. It's your dog. So, you take him to the vet, the vet gives you a prescription.
What happens then? You have just as many reasons to distrust a vet as a doctor.
Furthermore, if you cared so little for your pet that you weren't concerned with what improper or
substandard or error-ridden prescription
he might be given you wouldn't have taken him to the vet in the first place.
Thus, you care. Your actions prove it. In fact, on average you care MORE.
People are better at filling and properly administering prescription medication to their pets than to themselves.
That's not good, even from your pet's perspective
it's not good. Your pet (probably) loves you and would be happier if you took your medication". So,
it's weird.
We're better at taking care of our pets or dogs and cats and hamsters than we are at taking care of ourselves.
We would, if we saw that our dog was lying on the floor,
you know, maybe foaming from the mouth or like whimpering or like
having convulsions or something or it was throwing up like we'd rush it to the vet and get it shots
and then you know get its pills and medications and administer it however
we have to like 2, 3 or 4 times a day or whatever, like
flawlessly, like on the clock on the hour and
make sure that dog is healthy, like
and it has a speedy recovery, but we can't do the same for ourselves.
We can't even like drag ourselves out of bed in the morning and give ourselves a shower
you know, we go to work smelly and stuff.
It's really strange. I never really thought of that before that we have this inability
to
take care of ourselves
and I have another section marked here and it's near the end of the chapter.
There's one part here I found that was, that was very powerful and
this is, it's all, it's still sticking to the theme of taking care of yourself and before I go on I want to say a
good chunk of this chapter is full of biblical references- not just references.
It's based on the story of creation with Adam and Eve and
the whole time I was reading I was wondering how that was going to tie in and I was surprised
to see that at first, but I kept remembering that Jordan Peterson is a Catholic.
But he ties in the story of creation with Adam and Eve talking about how
when Eve is finally tricked by the snake in the garden by the devil to eat the fruit of the knowledge of-
The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil- she eats the fruit and her eyes are open. She's awakened and then she
shares the fruit with Adam so his eyes are opened and awakened and together they realize that
you know they're naked and vulnerable which makes them self conscious, and they hide from God
and it ties back into the importance of
taking care of yourself
and there's a part here I found very powerful.
It says, "You could help direct the world on its careening trajectory- trajectory-
TRAJECTORY-
A bit more toward heaven and a bit more away from hell. Once having understood
hell- researched it so to speak, particularly your own individual
hell- you could decide against going there or creating that. You could aim elsewhere.
You could in fact devote your life to this that would give you a meaning with a capital M.
That would justify your
miserable existence. That would atone for your sinful nature and replace your shame and
self-consciousness with the natural pride and forthright confidence of someone who's learned once again to walk with God in the garden.
You could begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping".
Now the line or two I found very important from that chapter
came
yeah, it was actually the first sentence: "You could help direct the world on its careening trajectory a bit more toward heaven and a bit
more away from Hell". He talks about this in previous paragraphs. What he was talking about is
since we have as humans, we seem to have an inability to take care of ourselves sometimes,
and I find this too that when you're trying to find the motivation to do things for yourself.
So, you wake up in the morning
And you maybe you make your to-do list of things, I do that every morning,
I make a to-do list of things that I have to get done for the day, and I set up my day
thinking that, "Okay.
How do I schedule my day so I can get the best possible day that I could have?" and I schedule my day
almost perfectly and of course things happen throughout the day that throw your schedule off
but yeah for the most part I sit down
and I say, "How could I schedule my day so I get the best day possible that I could get
(realistically speaking)?"
And then I make it my goal for the day to knock out everything on the to-do list as I go throughout my day.
But sometimes I miss, actually
probably MOST days I miss by a pretty large margin, probably at least half the to-do list.
You know, I'll miss things throughout the day, and then you know it'll be the end of the day,
I'm sitting in bed at night. You know, I'll reflect back on my to-do list and think, "Oh okay,
well I missed that and I didn't take out the trash and I didn't clean my room
and I didn't finish writing that paper fully, so you know I'll just do that tomorrow"
because you know of course I'm gonna say that.
And tomorrow comes around and I don't do it again.
And so he was sort of hinting, well not hinting at, he was talking about how sometimes
the motivation to do things for ourselves isn't enough so what he said, what he expanded upon was: okay.
Forget about doing things for yourself.
Don't worry about that because you in your own horrible way you already know that you're not going to be able to motivate yourself
to do something that you know would be good for you.
So instead think of it like this: if you don't help yourself
and if you don't do the things that you know you need to do
you're tilting the world a little bit on its axis closer to hell
when if you were living a life of meaning
you'd be
tilting it a little closer to heaven, that you'll be tilting it closer to heaven if you were doing things that you know you should
be doing but since you're not you're wasting your time.
You're doing things that don't help your life at al,l that actually just hinder your life.
You're tilting the world a little bit closer to hell and that's not good at all.
So what he was saying is if you can't find the motivation to do things for you, if that's not enough for you,
and it usually isn't actually for most people at least it's not for me all the time.
He said the best thing you can do then is don't focus on yourself; focus on everyone else and think that
you might think the small things you do during the day like taking a shower or going out and getting the mail or getting your
haircut, you know, or
going to work, that those things are small and insignificant
and you can really get stuck into that frame of mind
you know, that mindset of how you're like one
speck of dust you know, in the whole grand scheme of things you're one
grain of sand in the entire universe. That,
you can get stuck in that, that quicksand you can get so stuck in that and spiral down into this
pit of depression if you let yourself think about that for too long.
But Jordan Peterson says that's not the case because- and he said this before in his videos- that you're a node in a network.
You're connected to so many people, especially with the social media now
that's especially true, but you're a node in a network and in some way your actions are connected to other people. So, you
not taking a shower or
going and getting the mail or going to work
or walking your dog, you know, or
doing your laundry, I mean things that you think would not, there's like no way they could ever be connected to anyone
actually are in some way.
They do have meaning, and they actually impact other people's lives in some way whether
catastrophically huge or very like, very minute and small and insignificant, but that's what you think, you think they're significant actions
but they're not, they actually mean a lot and we don't ever think about that. So if you can't find enough
motivation in thinking, "Well, if I did this thing that would be good for me
and it would improve my life tenfold if I just did this thing that I've been avoiding for so long," so if
that's not enough for you, you can think, "Okay.
Well me going out and taking care of the trash in some way is going to help the world.
It's going to help everyone else.
It's going to take the world and tilt it a little closer toward heaven," and that's I think that's enough motivation
to direct your day, to direct the actions you take during the day and it'll be a helpful reminder
you know, when you're facing those temptations of maybe taking a break and being lazier
or eating that cookie when you're trying to stay on the diet, something like that you can remind yourself of the actions that you take
today can in some way and probably will- most definitely will-
impact someone else's life somehow in some way negatively. That's not what you want to do.
But taking the action that you know you need to do will help tilt the world a little more toward heaven. You could begin
by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping. I'm
absolutely loving this book. I'm gonna try and read a little more rapidly now and get these videos out more.
Let me know what you guys want me to talk about next in future videos down in the comments, hit the like button if you're
enjoying these, and hit the subscribe button if you want to hear more from me. Definitely going to keep reviewing the book
Jordan Peterson's "12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos" so now I'll be reviewing it
chapter-by-chapter as I go on and give my opinion of the chapter. Fantastic book.
I definitely recommend you guys picking it up on Amazon or however you want to go about doing that.
Amazing book. I'm just, I'm loving it. Until next time guys, thanks for listening. Catch you in the next video.
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