Jordan B Peterson: You Need To Listen To Your Wife! We've Built A Lonely & Sexless Society! If You & Your Partner Do This, You'll Divorce!

We know the couples that lived together before the marriage actually increases the probability that the relationship will fail. And the reason for that's very straightforward. I'm talking of things that risk harming relationships, subject we've never spoken about before, is Oh yeah. And that's a huge reason sex has disappeared. People need to stop doing Peterson the psychology professor people love or love to hate. He's undeniably one of the greatest intellectual phenomenons on the planet. And many view him as the ultimate father figure. Welcome back, Mr. Peterson. We're built for maximal challenge. And that isn't the way we view ourselves in the modern world. We view ourselves as built for consumption and pleasure. For example, watching pornography. But what are the downstream consequences of that? Well, first of all, it's easy to get what sexual gratification. But does it matter? Oh, it's a catastrophe. You're not desperate anymore. And if you're gonna have the true adventure of your life, you're gonna need love, shame, guilt, desperation, and pain. Like it's hard. But now people take the easy road, like avoiding conflict, for example. I spent a lot of time studying evil that arises when good men hold their tongue. Now you may suffer some consequences of speaking, but retreating one step at a time defensively that makes you sick of yourself and there's nothing worse than can happen to you. You want your life to be unbearably entertaining. And maybe all the sorrow and catastrophe has to be part of it because otherwise there's

There's nothing about it that's glorious. Over the last two years you've been through a particularly difficult time and because you've been through that, have you been able to develop a strategy that helps you go through suffering? Yeah, oh definitely. So the first thing. I find it incredibly fascinating that when we look at the back end of Spotify and Apple and our audio channels, the majority of people that watch this podcast haven't yet hit the follow button.

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