There is a “surface area” of life. We rarely realize how much it consumes. Maximize your enjoyment of what’s real and true by keeping your “surface area” small.
If you’re trying to determine if something is true, the effort should manifest itself in the evolutionary, neurological and perceptive planes of the brain. See Dr. Peterson demonstrate how it does.
Whatever makes itself manifest as a consequence of the truth, is the best possible reality.
In the search for truth, the question of provenance is basic yet crucial. As talk of autonomous AI dominates the news, the glaring error of one magazine shows the extent to which technology is still dependent on human beings and their very human faults.
In this eight-minute excerpt, Peterson expands on the deeply adventurous side of living a truthful life. “The thing about telling the truth that’s so adventurous, is that you let go of what you want. And you replace it with a hypothesis, it’s the hypothesis of faith. (…) If I tell the truth as carefully as I can, then, whatever happens, is the best that could have possibly happened in that situation.”
ONE-MINUTE TRUISM: “I was often saying things just to win arguments and be right…”
Psychology professor Dr. Jordan B. Peterson criticizes the modern emphasize on ‘self-esteem’ of social psychologists. The message should be more about living up to your potential, especially for young people.
The most true thing may not be some truth, per se. Rather, it is something that provides the precondition for all judgements of truth itself. Jordan Person shows why.
VIDEO: Truth is more powerful than deceit by a wide margin. Love is more powerful than hate by a wide margin. Dr. Peterson uses current trends to demonstrate.
If news can be fake and facts have alternatives, how are we to know what’s true anymore? Does a post-truth politics tilt toward tyranny? Join the Aspen Institute and The Cooper Union in association with The Public Theater’s Public Forum for an event featuring Harvard Political Philosopher Michael Sandel leading a debate on the truth in our society.
If you say what you think, what happens to you is your happening. If you lie to get your way, it’s not your way that you get, it’s the way of the lie.
Declarative sentences used to declare things to be true, as opposed to other things that are, “like totally,” not”? What has happened to our convictions on what is true and what is not?
Jihadists always use the phrase, “We love death more than you love life.” How can we face down such an enemy? The answer is to say, “There is nothing wrong loving life this much. If you wish to worship death, be our guest, we may even help you. But we will not apologize for loving life and fighting for life.”
First, we believe. Afterwards, we doubt, analyze, verify. “Truth-Default Theory” studies this natural habit and its dangerous pitfalls. Learn ways to rise above it.
WHO KNEW? While few people intentionally purchase products involving enslavement and exploitation of workers, the harsh reality is our global supply chain relies on 40.3 million victims trapped in slavery.
VIDEO+TRANSCRIPT: What are the best food sources of lutein, the primary carotenoid antioxidant in the brain?
SHORT COMEDY: One determined math teacher takes on post-truth America.
Why may those who consume meat have up to three times the risk of developing dementia compared with vegetarians? AGEs may be one explanation.
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