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Competence Hierarchies

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Hierarchies: The Most Real Things You Meet

The most real things that you encounter aren't necessarily the things that you can easily see. Numbers are obviously a form of abstraction but then there's something that's truly real about them right I mean once you lay out numbers and you can start to manipulate the man they give you a grip on the world like nothing else. Primate nervous systems are wired to respond to the existence of hierarchies with modulation of motivation and emotion so anyways you can perceive hierarchies even though you can't see them and you do perceive them man it's unbelievable and deep deep parts of you perceive them.

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