Moment 51 - Jordan Peterson: How Struggle Makes Us Stronger

Uh contended with this idea of struggle and chaos in my life and the role it plays. And once upon a time I thought I was trying to rid my life of chaos and struggle. I thought that's why I was trying to get rich and get the Ferrari and the blonde. I thought that would create a life um free of free of struggle. But then I looked at some studies and I sort heard about this thing called gold medal depression when Olympians come back from the Olympics and they've lost orientation. And then the day when someone offered to buy my company for a Eight nine or nine figure number. And it filled me with this emptiness and this dread. And I and I and I tried to understand the role that struggle would would would have to play for me to be a fulfilled human being for the rest of my life.

Yeah, well that the the observation with regard to your company. That's a that's a great observation. I mean We're built to walk up hill. And When you reach the pinnacle of the hill, you want to stop and appreciate the vision, but

The next thing you want is a higher hill in the distance because It's the uphill climb that It's It's from the uphill climb that we derive our value, and I mean this technically. So almost all the positive emotion we feel.

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript, segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

10 free credits is 10 episodes like this one a month. Episodes nobody has transcribed yet cost their length in hours, because we have to actually transcribe them.