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139. Maps of Meaning 11: The Flood and the Tower

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Trick for Human Thrilling in the Face of Suffering and Malevolence

The trick for human thriving in the face of suffering and malevolence is strength, not protection. We also know this clinically. If you treat people with exposure therapy for agryphobia, which is roughly speaking, the fear of chaos, i would say, the fear of everything,. You don't make them braver. It's not the same thing. With anagrophobic, see, what happens to them is the fault, they never conceptualize death and suffering. They're naive, right? It never enters there the theatre of their imagination. And it's because they're protected from it. But then something happens. This often happens to women in their forties, cause...

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