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236. How to Use Reading and Writing to Find Your Path
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Are We Transparent to Ourself?
Emotions are the executioner of our genes, or the executor of our genes. All that theyre there is to just enact what our biological imperative once and then we get to glimpse them as they run past on the way to doing a thing. We're so good at deception that we deceive ourselves before we deceive anybody else. While we're definitely not transparent to ourselves by any stretch of imagination, we wouldn't have to spand decades studying psychology if we were transparent. You need part of being motivated is to be afraid of the proper things. But you have to make those things real for you before they have any power.
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