Jordan Peterson on How Creative You Are




This is taken from Jordan Peterson's 2017 lecture series on personality at the University of Toronto. You can find the entire lecture, which was part 2 in a two-part series.

"What are disagreeable people like?" Jordan Peterson




In this lecture, He talks about the Big Five trait agreeableness, which is the dimension of the care system, in Jaak Panksepp's terminology. It can be construed as cooperation vs competition, or compliance vs non-compliance, or tender-mindedness vs tough-mindedness. It is also an important determinant of political belief, being the trait most associated with the body of ideas that has come to be known as politically correct.

Agreeable people tend to view the political world as innocent infant vs reptilian predator. Perhaps this is good for you (although probably not) if you are placed in the innocent infant category, but it is not so good if you are deemed reptilian predator :)

Jordan Peterson on How betrayals destroy your entire world





In this lecture, 04 and 05 combined, he discusses the relationship between the initiatory structure characteristic of shamanism and the process of radical personality transformation, self- or therapy-induced.
The basic structure is order/paradise, chaos/the fall, re-establishment of order/paradise. Since all paradises fall, however, the true paradise is identification with the process of transformation itself.