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376. Truth and Adventure as an Antidote to Suffering | Douglas Murray

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

CHAPTER

The Power of Stillness

I'm struck by your example that the first thing that happens is looking away. There's a metaphor that's always on my mind from the end of Evelyn Wars to Klein and Fall, where a very curious man is an architect in the book. He says, occasionally, the circus pays for somebody who knows how to do it, to get to the top and sit there. And he says, that's where you want to be, because at the top, in the center, it's totally still. That's just no centrifugal force there. I've probably met 50 or 100 now who will speak and you're one of them. Do you know why? Is it tied somehow into

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