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139. Maps of Meaning 11: The Flood and the Tower

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Trick for Human Fight in the Face of Suffering and Malevolence Is Strength Not Protection

The trick for human thriving in the face of suffering and malevolence is strength, not protection. We also know this clinically. If you treat people with exposure therapy for rophobia,  you don't make them less afraid. You make them braver. It's a completely different idea. This is often happens to women in their forties,. they're the people most likely to develop agriphobia. Something happens there. They've been protected from chaos by authority their entire life. And then something happens in their life. Often in their forties, they develop heart palpitations. Maybe as a consequence of menapaus, their heart starts to beat erratically....

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