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132. Maps of Meaning 4: Marionettes & Individuals (Part 3)

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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What Pinocchio Is Offering Is the Opportunity to Abandon Responsibility as a Reward for Adopting the Guse of Victim

In order to have any positive meaning in your life, you have to be working towards it. And so what pinocchio is offered is the opportunity to abandon responsibility as a reward for adopting the guise of victim. The circuitry that produces the kind of positive emotion that people really like, is only activated when you notice that you're proceeding towards a goal that you value. It's literally the case that if you're engaged in something that's engaging and you're working towards a goal, that you'll feel less pain....

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