![]() ![]() It is in this manner that we can and must reduce the suffering that poisons the world. We must each tell the truth and repair what is in disrepair and break down and recreate what is old and outdated. We must each adopt as much responsibility as possible for individual life, society and the world. Which is a hard message to get across in the land of fragmented awareness.Įxplaining why he wrote 12 Rule For Life in the book’s introduction, Peterson offers an overview for our collective success: In an overworked and overstressed culture like America, more emphasis on objects directly in front of our eyes would do our collective nervous system wonders. Place your attention in the environment and not only does your environment improve, so do you. Kondo’s platform is rooted in simplicity and elegance: Treat everything as if it’s sacred. Westerners would do well studying more Japanese culture, especially the focus on collectivism and philosophy of bowing-basically, the de-emphasizing of “me”. “Kondo” might be a buzzword (and annoying Instagram hashtag), but the underlying Shinto principles are worth exploring. Instead of waking up to clean our room, we bury our heads in our phones. ![]() Our ability to manipulate natural resources into plastics, chemistry, and tons of useless products now floating around oceans is a major underlying cause of carbon emissions. Humans are the most wasteful species in the history of the planet. Peterson’s argument stems from teenagers and economic systems, but here’s another glaring example: climate change. (Photo by Joanne Rathe/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) Otti Logan, 16, gets a folding lesson from Zen tidiness guru Marie Kondo. Whether it’s privilege or lack of self-awareness (or both, as the two go hand-in-hand) is open for discussion. Instead of depositing their sandals in the shoe rack, they simply step out and leave them in the doorway, forcing other members to step (or trip) over them while entering the room. A number of members wear flip-flops around the gym (or around life, being Los Angeles). One basic example I can’t even believe I have to write, but having lived through it dozens of times, is worth a mention. When you can’t orient yourself spatially your ignorance of others is guaranteed. How many times has someone almost (or fully) walked into you because their attention was consumed? How many times have you walked into someone? Someone else will clean up that towel or wipe away the shaving cream (or pick up those fingernail clippings-yeah, that too). Consumed as we are by the device in our hands, we lose spatial awareness. Just as carelessness online is common, a similar scenario unfolds walking through a gym locker room. Cleaning up your Twitter feed might be another necessary step in this process. Problem is, our mediums for expression, namely social media, merely echo. The intensive focus on the individual is a motivating factor behind the rise in populism: pockets of communities, and pockets within pockets, disenfranchised and disempowered, refusing reason to scream “what about me.” Community building and participation are powerful methods for alleviating the anxiety and depression that become emotionally taxing when you feel isolated. Not taking care of yourself “with attention and skill,” he writes, paves the road to “self-disgust, self-contempt, shame, and self-consciousness.”Ī whole lot of selves, which is part of the problem. For example, Rule #2: Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping, another way of expressing the biblical maxim about doing unto others and so on. Self-competence is a foundational theory in his last book, 12 Rules For Life. It’s humbling, he continues, because you’re not “exceeding your domain of competence.” Peterson suggests displaying your own competence locally, managing what you can actually control, before championing larger causes predominantly out of reach. Jordan Peterson on Cleaning Your Room – The Joe Rogan Experience
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