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Structuring Your Perceptions (part one)

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Drug Addiction - You Need a Life, Not a Drug

If you are addicted or abusing drugs of that form, one thing that you might consider is that should get a life. You need to have something to do that's better than the damnd drug. If you take rats, you take a rat, rat's a social guy. He likes to live in a rat family and do rat things with his rat friends. But if you take him by the tail and you drop him in a cage, and then give him access to cocaine, he'll just bar press forever, forever. And it's cause he doesn't have thing better to do. He's not even a rat. He's like you in solitary confinement. It's sort of you

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