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Jacob's Ladder

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is Happiness Better Than Nobility?

"If you're not willing to take your mortality on voluntarily, then you can't act forthrightly in the world," he says. "Maybe that's better than ness, like, it's certainly more noble." The existentialists believed we came into the world with an ethical burden already laden upon us, something they said was necessary for us to justify our being. But i think happiness is like, if it comes along, man, great, you know, wonderful. Don't don't take it lightly or for granted, cause it's fleeting".

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