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April 2018 Q & A

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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How to Surround Yourself With Other People

You can't perceive reality accurately because you don't know everything. So and you're full of biases and you're ignorant as hell. And so the best you can do is perceive small bits of reality well enough so that you can more or less get what you need in a relatively short period of time without screwing yourself up too badly in the medium to long term. That's why I'm a pragmatist. There are lots of other philosophical streams that have influenced my thought, existentialism, phenomenology to mention to others. But the thing is you can't perceivereality accurately because youDon't really perceive accurately. You perceive small portions of reality, extraordinarily limited in space and time.

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