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134. Maps of Meaning 06: Story and Metastory (Part 2)

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Don't You Want To, You Want to Constrained the Less Event to the Minimum Necessary Domain

When you're arguing with your partner, which you'll do all the time. We have an argument, well, i should never have married you. Or here's a really good one, you've always done that sort of thing, and you always will. And none of it is acceptable. So what you want to do, as you want to minimize it, isn't rationalization. You want to say, o k, this person did something that disrupted our joint map. O k, what's the smallest possible thing they could do to put it back together? But don't open the door so that every possible snake comes crawling through because that's a pathway to depression. In depressed people...

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