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Maps of Meaning 10, 11, 12, & 13

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Are You Happy?

Dostoyevsky said that human beings are fundamentally ungrateful and insane. So if you give them some little, comfortable niche to occupy themselves with, the first thing they're going to do is run around looking for the apple,. he says. The purpose of life isn't to avoid chaos, because we like chaos, it's entertaining, right? It keeps us alert and awake, and it gives us something to do that really has no end. And so maybe the answer is something more like, well, forget the frame e reference, forget the chaos, but hit the balance right between the two - or yen andya. You got one foot where it's reasonably comfortable, and

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