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My Pen of Light - Part Two

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Instinct of Meaning

You have an instinct for meaning. It puts you where you're good at something, but now you're pushing yourself beyond what you're good at in a way that exhilarates you and keeps you intensely engaged. You want to be good at it, but you want to be getting better at it. The trick is to p so that you're there more and more of the time. And then you're in the right place at the right time, and then things justify themselves,. Because you have that ongoing sense of intrinsic meaning that is associated exactly with children's natural tendency to learn and progress. That has exactly the same function for you. Your nervous system is set up to reward you with psychological

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