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This is a clever egoic trick. There are in fact far more viable and healthy interpretations than Peterson would lead you to believe. He makes it sound like his Christian-based solutions are the only ones that would work. Which is far from the case. The whole point of cultural relativism is to acknowledge all the weird and diverse solutions that cultures have come up with. Peterson just glosses over this part. One of the serious downsides of the stage Blue traditionalist worldview is that it is incapable of learning from other cultures because it holds itself as the one superior culture. For example, why is Peterson not talking about Hinduism? Yoga? Advaita? Buddhism? Sikhism? Paganism? Jainism? Concepts from Islam? etc. Some of these cultures have far superior spiritual teachings to Christianity, which is extremely corrupt and degraded. And, the most positive and meaningful life comes from dropping all interpretations as much as possible. You see how JP is avoiding infinity? Trying to make it finite? It's not just that JP rails against the radical left. I would criticize the radical left too. The much bigger problem is that he paints most of the left as radical left. Which is utterly absurd. Obnoxious college feminists in their early 20's do NOT represent the mainstream left almost at all. That's like 1% of the left. The most immature version of the left. It would be like representing all conservatives as KKK. He is making a mountain out of a molehill. As if a handful of obnoxious college feminists are about to take over the world. Please!

That's a very worthy cause. But also be mindful of the complexities of this system. Be careful that you don't inadvertently design a system which is even worse. Complex systems which handle tens of millions of people are notoriously difficult to design. A study of system theory would be a must.

@sgn It's got nothing to do with reality or facts. If you get triggered, that's ALL you! It's all about how your mind is failing to understanding the complexities of reality, denying reality. The reality is, people eat animals and you don't like it. That's not the world's problem, that's your problem. Don't project it on them. Own it. Triggering is never in the situation, it's in YOUR interpretation of the situation. If you were fully awakened, Hitler himself torturing kittens would not trigger you.

In this case you follow your own heart and do whatever you feel is best.

Of course it depends on the school. I am assuming you'd go to a good school, not a madrasa. If your school is a toxic hellhole, then yeah, maybe you're best off with no school at all. It's hard for me to say cause I only went to great schools. I don't really know what a bad school feels like.

Of course you can always find exceptions. We are talking about general guidelines for people, not what works for 1 in 1000. A solid education is very important. And don't confuse success with personal development and consciousness. Just because someone drops out of school and earns millions of dollars doesn't mean much. He could be selling tobacco to children or a used car salesmen.

Bullying is a separate issue. Of course if there is lots of bullying in your school that will sour your whole education experience. Bullying varies a lot from school to school and by geographic location.

@StardewValley Sounds like a shadow issue. In other words, the reason you are angry at them is because you have actually disowned this meat-eater part of yourself. You've told yourself it it wrong, but this was really a denial rather than a genuine transcendence. Contemplate with a journal how you have disowned this part of yourself and created an identity around being a moralistic non-meat-eater. What is your ego getting out of hating meat-eaters? It's getting something! There's some secret payoff. Meditation actually tends to not resolve shadow issues. You need to contemplate, not meditate this issue.

Sit down with a journal and dig into why you procrastinate. What is really going on there? Don't speculate. Sit down and contemplate it seriously. You might be surprised what you discover. The root causes are not always what they first appear. Keep probing this question day after day for at least a week. Get deep with it. Explore your true psyche. Ask yourself why you are doing all this. If it's fear, what do you really fear and why is it so bad?

@Sashaj Notice how often your posts contain the words "I", "me", "my". You keep saying "I", "I", "I"... but notice, there isn't one. Stop screwing around and try to pinpoint what this "I" is that you claim you are. If the "I" cannot be pinpointed, then why are you so sure you exist? Why keep saying "I"? What if "I" is just a word which points to nothing? Like Santa Claus or unicorn. What if you are just an idea? What if you cannot die because in fact you never existed?

@Cepzeu It hasn't changed that much. The fundamentals are still the same. The one thing I would change is, if you have a clear sense of direction, college is not necessarily the way to go. I now feel that college is only right for certain types of people and certain types of majors. If you're self-driven, you can out-perform college by your own. Of course it all depends on what you want to do with your life. If you want to be a doctor or engineer, college is basically a must.

Most coaches cannot sustain a living doing coaching because they are just bad at marketing themselves and getting clients. It has little to do with your coaching skills and more to do with your business and networking skills. Coaching is traditionally a very network-oriented business. You need to be a good networker, or a good online marketer. I am a bad example of a coach because I don't really coach people and I don't network. I sort of created my own category of online philosopher because I never really cared to be a traditional coach. If you are a great networker and really hustle, you can certainly make low six figures. But this is highly usual for coaches. Most coaches can't make $20k/year because they don't realize that coaching isn't about coaching, it requires business savvy. Honestly, it's gonna be tough to be a coach at your age. You're just a bit too young and immature still and people will not take you seriously (and they aren't wrong). You need more life experience and more theoretical foundation. But don't let that discourage you. You can still lay the groundwork now for a coaching career in your late 20's and early 30's. Don't expect any cookie-cutter formula or coaching programming to land you a 6 figure income. A 6 figure income is only possible through creative, original thinking and lots of hustle, above and beyond what most coaches do. In the meantime, you can try to find a career which will get you more experience, like counseling students in college or working with substance abuse victims or tutoring teens or some kind of community organizer jobs. Jobs like that can be a good segue into coaching later on, as they allow you to develop people skills and start practicing mentoring. To be a good coach you have to enjoy working with and mentoring people. You also need to know how to sell people on the value of coaching. People are generally very hesitant to pay hard money for soft advice. You gotta find ways to make coaching very tangible and practice for people. Like, "I can help you save your marriage" or "I can help you double your salary".

@herghly That sounds like a neat innovation. I can def see it being very powerful.

Fame is like pouring gasoline onto an already toxic and deluded ego-mind. It makes the ego drunk with power. And the day after you get everything you ever wanted will be the most depressing day of your life. People overlook this point in our materialistic culture. Unsuccessful people cannot appreciate how hollow success is. Successful people can.

@Revolutionary Think I will shoot another video about the problems of the education system as a whole. It's a very deep topic as there are many systemic flaws. But regardless of its flaws, finishing 12th grade is a must in my opinion.

@thehero It's not pointless if you actually want to work in those fields. You will actually need credentials and those fields are so technical and deep that it's very hard to teach yourself all that. And college does a pretty good job teaching hard technical fields, so you might as well take advantage of the structure they offer. Where college really falters is with teaching life skills, job skills, creativity, business, psychology, personal development, philosophy, spirituality, and how to be a great human being. Those you must teach yourself using resources outside of college.

My views on college have evolved. In fact, I want to shoot a video about it. I think there are many problems with college. Especially if you must go into massive debt to do it. College is good for certain specific things like: engineering, computer science, physics, etc. But is a waste of time for many others. It really depends on how self-driven you are and how good of a sense of direction you have in life. If you have a strong sense of life purpose, follow that rather than college. I now prefer self-education rather than college, but this will only work for people who are self-driven.

@Serotoninluv Nice!

Sexual repression always creates a shadow. This is the problem with moralization. It can never substitute for personal dev work or spiritual work. A classic stage Blue problem.

Kundalini starting to awaken

@Sashaj Consider the possibility there is no who. Does the sun need a who to do its thing? The sun is a complicated thing but somehow it gets by just fine without a who. So does a computer.

It couldn't be any other way. No true happiness is possible without awakening, so you will never attain it so long as the ego is alive. This is not a mistake. This is by design. What you intuit is that you need awakening. Your intuition is correct but you don't yet realize just how correct it is. You've been playing a losing game your whole life and now you're starting to suspect its a rigged game. To expect happiness without awakening is madness.

Be more creative. Stop playing victim.

How do you explain anything at all? This is the crux of the problem. You are assuming it can/should be explained without realizing that BEING is prior to explanation and is irreducibly mystical. This one of the core mistakes of science. The solution is to stop explaining and to start BEING. Explanation is a finite, second order thing. The nature of reality is such that all explanations must be incomplete. You are trying to symbolize Truth, which is impossible because Truth is infinite. You can BE the Truth, but you cannot know it. You can try forcing an explanation (as science does) but if you do that it automatically becomes incomplete and relative, not the Absolute.

Past and future are concepts occurring in the now. The problem is that the ego-mind is trying to understand how/what the now is, and to do so, it creates concepts. The ego-mind is busy trying to demystify the now, but in fact, the now is mystical and it is a wrong move to try to demystify it. In an attempt to demystify it, ideas like past and future get created, which lead to a false understanding. So the counter-intuitive move to surrender to the fact that the now is literally magic, without a past or future. Notice that past and future are posited because otherwise the mind just cannot accept the raw truth that the now is here all by itself. That would be too eerie, too woo-woo for the ego-mind.