#448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning

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• The soul is the battleground between the forces of good and evil; it is your moral duty to constrain evil within yourself
• Communism does not scale and it does not iterate – whereas religious thought is the record of those ideas that have scaled and iterated
• If you follow the voice of adventure and make the necessary sacrifices to follow the path that takes you out of your comfort zone, then you will experience the following benefits:
  • Your life will be a blessing
  • Everyone will hold you in high esteem
  • You will establish something of permanent value
  • You will do these things in a way that is maximally beneficial to everyone else
• There is no distinction between the truest adventure of life and taking on the maximal responsibility and burden
• Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today
• Make the presumption that if you move forward in good faith, whatever happens to you will be the best thing that could happen – no matter what it is
• Men should have a temper, but they should be able to regulate it; most of what passes for morality is nothing but cowardice
• A good man has to be formidable: The capacity that could be the most potent force for evil can also be the most powerful force for good
• Welcome the adversity of life as a redemptive challenge; the best parts of yourself activate when you voluntarily contend with challenges
• After you go through a period of pain, you will have more gratitude for the ordinariness of life
• We have an existential moral duty to aim upward and to tell the truth

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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(07:07) - Nietzsche
(14:48) - Power and propaganda
(19:54) - Nazism
(24:54) - Religion
(41:18) - Communism
(47:03) - Hero myth
(49:12) - Belief in God
(59:24) - Advice for young people
(1:12:02) - Sex
(1:32:00) - Good and evil
(1:44:46) - Psychopathy
(1:58:15) - Hardship
(2:10:31) - Pain and gratitude
(2:21:32) - Truth

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