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134. Maps of Meaning 06: Story and Metastory (Part 2)

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Dope Inergic System - What's Hope?

Cognitive behaviorists have a simplified model for the way that people act. But you don't want to throw motivation and emotion out of the equation, because obviously they're so important. So forget predicted and unpredicted thing, desired and undesired. If something is promising, it indicates to you that you can probably attain the goal. Or if someone makes a promise to you, then they're telling you that they're going to facilitate movement towards a goal. And so that's the emotion level that the dope inergic system works on....

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