174. Jordan Peterson — Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
The Michael Shermer Show
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Your Temperament Is Going to Biase What You've Been Exposed To
Tension between chaos and order is an eternal political theme, says joe. It's also an eternal narrative trope in the history of society as a whole - from bertrand russell to john stuart mill. People value one or the other more highly than the other by their temperament. Your temperament gives you a first pass biasing of the information that you're likely to process. And so it's very difficult to work against. If you want to make yourself orderly, and you're not by it by temperament, you have to build up the micro habits from their basis. You can do it, but it's an act of will.
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