i don't think that people want to understand the role of raw general cognitive ability. It's such a determining factor, and it's hard for people on the right and the left to to accept it. The american military decided a couple of decades ago that it was illegal to induct anybody into the armed forces who had an ecue of less than 83. That's about ten per cent of the population. And so and they a hire people who hire also don't understand therole of temperament,. How that can be assessed and measured and and how different temperaments really do predispose people to different areas of skill. J r r tulkian, do his works interest you? Ah,
Jordan Peterson joins Tyler to discuss collecting Soviet propaganda, why he’s so drawn to Jung, what the Exodus story can teach us about current events, his marriage and fame, what the Intellectual Dark Web gets wrong, immigration in America and Canada, his tendency towards depression, Tinder’s revolutionary nature, the lessons from The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, fixing universities, the skills needed to become a good educator, and much more.
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