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Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Are You Looking for a Goal?

Almost all the positive emotion that you're going to experience in your life, and positive emotion is analgesic, by the way, right? It actually quells pain. So it's not just positive. It also gets rid of negative, which is a big plus. And so if you want to feel positive emotion, then you need a goal. The star recurs as a motif in pinocchio. When jipetto wants to transform his puppet, the marionette, whois being played by forces that operate behind the scenes. But i'm not convinced that there are no goals that can do that.

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