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286. Navy SEAL Mindset | Congressman Dan Crenshaw

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Pursuit of Happiness

Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence this this right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. There's a lot of evidence for that because what what they meant was the pursuing of purpose. If you don't construe yourself as a community stretched out across time then you're not even serving yourself, he says. The problem with hedonism as a goal is first of all it vanishes when you're suffering but even failing that if you're serving yourself hedonically in the narrow sense it's just about me in my pleasure It's like okay which you today's you tomorrow's you next week's you next month's you  what about next year or five years from now ten

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