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132. Maps of Meaning 4: Marionettes & Individuals (Part 3)

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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How to Find the Most Valuable Thing

What you want to find is to be found where you least want to find it. And that's a representation of people's paradoxical relationship with reality. So they're off to find the most valuable thing, but they don't know what it is. It's not only that you're not good at it, it's actually that it's wrong. That's where you have to go if you're going to learn how to stand up for yourself. The same idea is echoed in the the prominent stories of dragons and gold. They are this terrible predatory thing that lives forever and is very, very wise,. "It'll kill you. But it hoards gold"...

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