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112: Life is Hard. So What Are You Going To Do? 12 Rules For Life With Jordan Peterson

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The Darkness Is Real, but the Light Is Stronger

I think the neurobiological evidence suggests that. I don't think there's any evidence whatsoever that that's true. That sense of meaningful engagement, that what is revealed to you when you're in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing, that sense of dealing. We can look at those old metaphorical ideas of the shining path, let's say, the golden path forward and we can say, yeah, that's actually real. And that's something. It's why 12 Rules for Life is actually an optimistic book. The darkness is real, but the light is stronger.

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