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.
Newsweek is launching a contest asking students to record 2-minute-long videos debating potential policy solutions to social media’s harmful effects. “If social media continues to erode our shared sense of truth and make it harder for us to find common ground, how are we going to address the many seemingly insurmountable threats we face as a society?”
📹 Cognitive biases are built-in human flaws in logical thinking. They form a path to bad decisions. Learning about these ideas can reduce errors in your thought process, leading you to a more successful life.
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How much do you know about the world? Hans Rosling demonstrates you have a high statistical chance of being quite wrong. Play along with his audience quiz. Learn 4 ways to get less ignorant, quickly.
Learn how your true strength lies in expressing the truth of the situation as clearly as possible.
Boredom makes you more creative, altruistic, introspective, and helps with autobiographical planning.
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.
ANIMATION: A young man named Carl is faced with a decision that will change his life completely. With all options equally good, bad, and unclear, he’s faced with the impossible task and responsibility of inventing himself. Learn an important insight into what turns a hard decision into a great one.
What is really real? What do you think is real? Pondering the difference may be philosophy’s most daunting pursuit. How could you ever know the difference? Fortunately, our world provides some helpful guides for this journey. Join Hank’s “Crash Course” in exploring Plato’s “Myth of the Cave” and other sources of insight.
Everyone wants to know ‘truth. From atheists to saints, people ponder, what is truth, its meaning, its theories? We argue about truth and fight about it. But what are some of the ideas behind “truth” itself? Featuring interviews with intellectuals Simon Blackburn, Raymond Tallis, John Hawthorne, John Hick, and Michael Shermer.
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…”
SHORT COMEDY: One determined math teacher takes on post-truth America.
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.
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.
SHORT DRAMA: Jack visits his father in prison. There, he discovers new perspectives on his Dad, the resonant relationship they share and where it could go in the future.
A redemptive mistake is a mistake that teaches and improves a person trying something new. By going where you haven’t been, despite the fresh mistakes you may make, you learn & move forward. See how.
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