The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast The Psychology of the Flood
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Jul 19, 2017 What do flood myths reveal about chaos, catastrophe, and the fragile structures that keep life together? This lecture explores Noah’s Ark alongside flood stories from around the world, then turns to routines, relationships, work, and the hard task of preparing for upheaval before it arrives.
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Sanity Is A Social Market
- Sanity is socially maintained: others constantly broadcast norms that shape behavior.
- We outsource complexity to many brains working together like a market for pricing behavior and meaning.
Map Your Past And Future Precisely
- Clarify where you are and where you want to go by mapping your past and future in detail.
- Use concrete micro-level tasks to convert high-level goals into embodied routines.
Solve Problems At The Lowest Level
- Decompose tasks to the lowest actionable level and teach from the bottom up, starting with automatized micro-skills.
- Assume ignorance before malevolence when someone fails to do a repeated task and coach the steps.