Your Temperament Is Going to Biase What You've Been Exposed To

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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.

Join Michael Shermer and Jordan Peterson (bestselling author of 12 Rules for Life) for this extraordinary conversation based on Peterson’s new book Beyond Order. After working for decades as a clinical psychologist and a professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto, Peterson has become one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals. His YouTube videos and podcasts have gathered a worldwide audience of hundreds of millions, and his global book tour reached more than 250,000 people in major cities across the globe. What is it that gives Peterson’s message such mass appeal?