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"Medieval alchemical thought, serving as a bridge between the extreme spiritualism of European Christianity and the later materialism of science, took to itself the dictum in sterquiliniis invenitur – in filth it shall be found." (Jung, 1967, p. 35). Peterson says it translates as "What you most what to find will be found where you least want to look."
When you're tring to lead people out of the darkness of depair, you get them to stop avoiding confronting the terrible things which are happening to them. Scrutinise your problems even more than you normally would even if you are not ignoring them - voluntarily confront what you would normally avoid. Do what is meaningful, pay attention and follow the truth, and it will take you to the worst places in your psyche, and only then will you have a chance at enlightenment.
Let go on self-centredness - do what is meaningful, not what is expedient.
Use your abilities to generate the maximum amount of love and compassion and stay alert to opportunities to be useful and generous.
Conservatives promote the usefulness, progressives promote generosity. Both left and right wing governments have produced roughly the same amounts of inequality. Our political systems offer us an insufficiency of choice to solve the problem of inequality. The only rigorous constant is that people absoultely refuse to learn to know themselves very well.
If you do a little bit more for others than they do for you, then they have a reason to continue interacting with you. The first rule of intelligence: Don’t talk about your intelligence. It’s something you prove, not something you claim. If you want people to really know you, weekly meetings don’t cut it. You need deep dives with them in high-intensity situations. Looking under your own hood at what makes you tick and writing it down can provide a useful reference. Put yourself in situations where you can’t ignore feedback from multiple sources.
Humans’ blind spots are predictable: There are certain types of traits where people can’t see themselves clearly, but others where they can. The psychologist Simine Vazire asked people to rate themselves and four friends on a bunch of traits, ranging from emotional stability and intelligence to creativity and assertiveness. Then, to see if they had predicted their own personalities better than their friends had, they took a bunch of tests that measured these traits.
The good news: You have some unique insight into your emotional stability. In the study, people outperformed their friends at predicting how anxious they’d look and sound when giving a speech about how they felt about their bodies. But they did no better than their friends (or than strangers who had met them just eight minutes earlier) at forecasting how assertive they’d be in a group discussion. And when they tried to predict their performance on an IQ test and a creativity test, they were less accurate than their friends. The real geniuses will know it’s not their place to judge.
When you're tring to lead people out of the darkness of depair, you get them to stop avoiding confronting the terrible things which are happening to them. Scrutinise your problems even more than you normally would even if you are not ignoring them - voluntarily confront what you would normally avoid. Do what is meaningful, pay attention and follow the truth, and it will take you to the worst places in your psyche, and only then will you have a chance at enlightenment.
Let go on self-centredness - do what is meaningful, not what is expedient.
Use your abilities to generate the maximum amount of love and compassion and stay alert to opportunities to be useful and generous.
Conservatives promote the usefulness, progressives promote generosity. Both left and right wing governments have produced roughly the same amounts of inequality. Our political systems offer us an insufficiency of choice to solve the problem of inequality. The only rigorous constant is that people absoultely refuse to learn to know themselves very well.
If you do a little bit more for others than they do for you, then they have a reason to continue interacting with you. The first rule of intelligence: Don’t talk about your intelligence. It’s something you prove, not something you claim. If you want people to really know you, weekly meetings don’t cut it. You need deep dives with them in high-intensity situations. Looking under your own hood at what makes you tick and writing it down can provide a useful reference. Put yourself in situations where you can’t ignore feedback from multiple sources.
Humans’ blind spots are predictable: There are certain types of traits where people can’t see themselves clearly, but others where they can. The psychologist Simine Vazire asked people to rate themselves and four friends on a bunch of traits, ranging from emotional stability and intelligence to creativity and assertiveness. Then, to see if they had predicted their own personalities better than their friends had, they took a bunch of tests that measured these traits.
The good news: You have some unique insight into your emotional stability. In the study, people outperformed their friends at predicting how anxious they’d look and sound when giving a speech about how they felt about their bodies. But they did no better than their friends (or than strangers who had met them just eight minutes earlier) at forecasting how assertive they’d be in a group discussion. And when they tried to predict their performance on an IQ test and a creativity test, they were less accurate than their friends. The real geniuses will know it’s not their place to judge.
