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236. How to Use Reading and Writing to Find Your Path

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Aiming at Something Worthwhile - That's a Good Deal

If you're aiming at something worth while, and you really believe it's worth while, then that's where your positive emotion comes from. You can use cocaine if you want, but, you know, that tends to have relatively detrimental medium to long term consequences. So you have to be aiming at something, and you should be aiming atSomething that's realistic, that you want, that you could get - not easily. And we've actually done a lot of research on this particular programme, that if university students do this, they're about 25 % less likely to drop out. About their grade point average increases about 20% so hurray for that. There's also evidence, but not

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