Name: We Gotta Ask Ourselves Questions | Dr. Jordan Peterson
Uploaded: 2021-04-19T16:20:08.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'We Gotta Ask Ourselves Questions | Dr. Jordan Peterson' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-19. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'We Gotta Ask Ourselves Questions | Dr. Jordan Peterson' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-19. Transcript available.

we got to ask ourselves questions i think that's just such a big thing we have
to like
people we have to learn to get into places and ask ourselves questions and
really come up with
some answers and one thing i notice is the habit of it gets it helps you fine-tune
the practice of
it just even the practice of it helps you fine-tune the ability to do it
because at first
it feels very impossible when you first start asking yourself questions to
really think you're
going to get somewhere and get answers yeah well to begin with you don't
necessarily get you don't
get going very quickly right right and that's again you have to have some
patience with yourself when
you first take those stumbling steps you said that since we've talked last that
you know your life
has progressed positively is that the case yeah yeah yes it is and so what to
what do you to what
do you attribute that what have you been doing right or what have you been
doing wrong less
well one thing that's helped me i think is just i've had more exposure to
people that are more
capable in a lot of different fields than myself so i think that's made part of
me want to rise to
the occasion a little bit more not to be equals to them or anything but just to
it's made me a little
more worldly i think in some ways in other ways my brother made me promise i
would go to therapy
even if i didn't want to so that's made me have to like commit to going and
speaking to a therapist
every week so that makes me have to um just talk about stuff a little more and
i think slowly in some
of those moments i've had to like you know i've had moments where if i'm really
feeling something
i'll kind of ask myself what am i feeling right now like am i feeling sad am i
feeling disappointed am
i feeling dejected am i feeling tired you know to i just start to really kind
of like it's almost
like using a metal detector over my feelings when i ask questions and then
sometimes one of the words
will kind of spark up and be like okay i'm feeling uh dejected um and then why
what who's making you
feel dejected what's making you feel dejected it's almost like i'm like sherlock
holmes but
i'm the crime scene yeah that's perfect that's a that's perfect well that is
exactly that process
by which knowledge emerges that i was referring to before it's like you have an
emotion but you don't
even necessarily know what it is yeah it's just a clue it's like bubbles that
come up in a river or
bubbles that come up in a lake right and sometimes there's a monster down there
dude and that gets
scary when you start to really get some of the answers you're like oh my god
and some of them will
make me just sometimes break down crying because it'll be such a real unearthing
of something that
i didn't know was going on inside of me yes well that's another reason why
people don't look
is that there's a monster in the depths and and that metaphor of the bubbles
that's that's that's a
perfect symbolic representation the depth because look you can't see what's in
the depth so the depth
is what's unknown and something lurks in the unknown and when emotions arise as
you mentioned it's a
manifestation of something that's underneath you can see this in you see this
very clearly in intimate
relationships you know where one person will get annoyed at the other for some
minor transgression
and soon they'll be fighting about something that happened or didn't happen 10
years ago and then
they'll get to the point where they're investigating the structure of the
entire relationship
and then that'll stop people from ever having a dispute at all because they're
so terrified that
any pathway into a dispute will lead down into you know is this relationship
worthwhile
that's actually part of the reason i think that it's useful to have divorce
difficult if not forbidden
because otherwise that question it's like do you really want to be tortured by
that question for
the rest of your life at some point it's it's nice to just say well i'm not
going to go there that's
off the table yeah hope you enjoyed that video and you can watch another and
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