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304. Infamous: When Comedy Exists Outside of Agenda | Andrew Schulz

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Dragon Confrontation Process

In therapy, the idea that if you expose people to things they were afraid of and paired that with a relaxation response, they would learn to relax. But then it was rapidly discovered that you didn't have to teach them to relax. And so what they see is that there's something within them that can overcome even the things they're most afraid of. It's like Halloween plays with death and decay and predation and monstrosity and everything that's dark. We take everything that smacks of death away and hide it. How brave are we to face our finitude and our mortality? The answer might be, well, how brave can you be?

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