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Risk Being a Fool: A 12 Rules for Life Lecture

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

CHAPTER

The Importance of Risk in Life

I usually have at least one small panic attack before I come on stage, but they're there. But I don't think you can do anything worthwhile without risk and that's part of the reason why free speech is so important. There's a lot of idiocy on the way to wisdom, and you have to understand that if you're going to allow your society to proceed with any degree of certainty. You have to flail about, you know? The Fool card from the tarot shows this kind of prince looking like young guy, he's looking up in the clouds and he's got a little dog with him,. sun shining behind him, and he's about to step off a cliff

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