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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Join intellectual phenomenon Dr. Jordan Peterson and his daughter Mikhaila for enlightening discourse that will change the way you think. This podcast breaks down the dichotomy of life through interviews and lectures that explain how individuals and culture are shaped by values, music, religion, and beyond. It will give you a new perspective and a modern understanding of your creativity, competence, and personality.

Join intellectual phenomenon Dr. Jordan Peterson and his daughter Mikhaila for enlightening discourse that will change the way you think. This podcast breaks down the dichotomy of life through interviews and lectures that explain how individuals and culture are shaped by values, music, religion, and beyond. It will give you a new perspective and a modern understanding of your creativity, competence, and personality.

Location:

New York, NY

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Westwood One

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Join intellectual phenomenon Dr. Jordan Peterson and his daughter Mikhaila for enlightening discourse that will change the way you think. This podcast breaks down the dichotomy of life through interviews and lectures that explain how individuals and culture are shaped by values, music, religion, and beyond. It will give you a new perspective and a modern understanding of your creativity, competence, and personality.

Language:

English

Episodes

Gregg Hurwitz: Build a Better Democrat

1/17/2021
This episode was recorded on December 20, 2020 before the most recent events on Capitol Hill. Gregg Hurwitz is an American novelist, scriptwriter, and producer. He has the newest book in his riveting thriller series Orphan X, coming out January 26, 2020, entitled Prodigal Son: An Orphan X Novel. In the last few years leading up to the presidential election, Gregg has been working with an independent team of Hollywood writers, producers, and directors to design and promote a moderate...

Duration:01:46:32

Matthew McConaughey

1/10/2021
Matthew McConaughey (actor, producer, and author of New York Times Best Seller "Greenlights") sits down with Jordan Peterson to talk about Matthew’s new book, his upbringing, his relationships with his mother and father, his journey to being at peace with his fame, what it’s like to play malevolent or dark characters in movies or on television, and a surprising satirical review of Greenlights. Find Matthew McConaughey on Twitter @McConaughey and on Instagram @officiallymcconaughey and...

Duration:01:16:29

Chris Voss with Jordan and Mikhaila Peterson

1/3/2021
Chris Voss (former lead FBI hostage and kidnapping negotiator, author, and CEO of Black Swan Ltd.) sits down with Jordan B. Peterson and Mikhaila Peterson, to discuss his book Never Split the Difference, highlighting some of his guiding principles to use in negotiations at work, home, with your spouse, or even in hostage situations. Find more of Chris Voss on Instagram @thefbinegotiator, his free negotiation newsletter at blackswanltd.com, or text to sign up mobile for the newsletter in the...

Duration:01:20:31

Heidegger, Binswanger, Boss (Phenomenology)

12/27/2020
In this lecture, 12th in the 2017 series, I discuss Heidegger's phenomenological philosophy of Being, interpreted through the eyes of the psychotherapists Ludwig Binswanger and Medard Boss. The phenomenologists were attempting to reduce the painful separation between object and subject that has as one of its consequences the elimination of meaning from existence. - Thanks to our sponsor: NordVPN - Holiday Offer: Purchase 2-year plan get 4 months free Visit: nordvpn.com/peterson and...

Duration:00:48:54

Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard (Existentialism)

12/20/2020
In this lecture, 11th in the 2017 series, I discuss the giants of existentialism, a philosophically-grounded psychological position positing (1) that psychopathology or mental illness/distress is built into Being itself and (2) that the adoption of responsibility through action is the appropriate response. - Thanks to our sponsors: Thinkr.org For a free trial visit www.thinkr.org Self Authoring Program Visit SelfAuthoring.com and use code MP for 15% off Understand Myself...

Duration:01:36:59

Carl Rogers (Humanism & Phenomenology)

12/13/2020
In this lecture, 10th in the 2017 series, I begin to talk about Dr. Carl Rogers, a humanist psychotherapist in the phenomenological tradition, and an expert on listening and embodied wisdom. Dr. Rogers offers very profound and practical lessons on the value of truthful relationships.

Duration:00:52:17

Wim Hof with Jordan and Mikhaila Peterson

12/6/2020
Wim Hof is an absolute legend, holding twenty-six world records for performing unbelievable feats of human conditioning and breaking barriers that science did not believe possible. He sits down with Jordan and Mikhaila Peterson to discuss these incredible feats and discusses his unique conditioning methods, the idea of physically healing trauma through impacting DNA, and the science, philosophy, and practicality behind it all. Find more Wim Hof in his book The Wim Hof Method, and on his...

Duration:01:11:48

Coleman Hughes with Jordan and Mikhaila Peterson

11/29/2020
Coleman Hughes and Jordan and Mikhaila Peterson discuss some of the global issues caused by polarizing opinions in race, politics, and western culture. Find Coleman Hughes on his podcast Conversations with Coleman, on Twitter @coldxman, and at his website https://www.colemanhughes.org This episode is sponsored by Helix Mattresses. For up to $200 off, visit www.helixsleep.com/jordan - For Advertising Inquiries, visit https://www.advertisecast.com/TheJordanBPetersonPodcast

Duration:01:02:53

Sigmund Freud and the Dynamic Unconscious

11/22/2020
In this lecture, 9th in the 2017 personality series, Dr. Peterson discusses some of the essentials of Sigmund Freud's theories, concentrating on his conceptualizations of the dynamic (living) unconscious. - Thanks to our sponsors: Wondery "Hosted by Taraji P. Henson, Wondery (Dr. Death, Dirty John, The Shrink Next Door) and Universal Music Group present Jacked: Rise of the New Jack Sound. The story begins with a keyboard player in the heart of Harlem: Teddy Riley. Teddy’s entire world...

Duration:00:54:53

Carl Jung (Part 2)

11/15/2020
In this lecture, Dr. Peterson finishes his analysis of Disney's Lion King, which provides a dramatic representation of many of the archetypes identified and analyzed by Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, student of Nietzsche and Freud, and originator of analytical psychology. - Thanks to our sponsors: https://helixsleep.com/jordan - For Advertising Inquiries, visit https://www.advertisecast.com/TheJordanBPetersonPodcast

Duration:01:46:26

Carl Jung (Part 1)

11/8/2020
In this lecture, Dr. Peterson uses Disney's Lion King to further illustrate the basic principles of the personality and clinical theories of Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, student of Nietzsche and Freud, originator of analytical psychology, and great interpreter of mythology and archetype. -- Go to https://Surfshark.deals/peterson and use code PETERSON to get 83% off a 2-year plan and 3 extra months for free! -- For Advertising Inquiries, visit...

Duration:00:52:07

Jean Piaget (Constructivism)

11/1/2020
Jean Piaget, renowned developmental psychologist, helped us understand how the child built its own personality during exploration, and how that personality was further shaped by the games people play. -- Go to https://Surfshark.deals/peterson and use code PETERSON to get 83% off a 2-year plan and 3 extra months for free! -- For Advertising Inquiries, visit https://www.advertisecast.com/TheJordanBPetersonPodcast

Duration:01:22:37

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Existentialism)

10/25/2020
--From: 2014 Personality Lecture 13: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Existentialism)-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, perhaps the greatest Russian author of the twentieth century, was an Orthodox Christian existentialist, a direct descendant of Dostoevsky's thinking, and a man who took a mighty axe to the terrible tangled roots of communist totalitarianism. He associated inauthentic being on the part of the individual, within society, with the direct degeneration of that society into tyranny and...

Duration:01:13:57

Foreword to The Gulag Archipelago: 50th Anniversary

10/18/2020
I had the great privilege of writing the foreword to the 50th-anniversary version of the abridged version of one of the most important books of the 20th century, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, a devastating account of the absolute horror wreaked upon the people of the Soviet Empire by the acolytes of the doctrine of Karl Marx. I read the foreword here, in its entirety, and encourage everyone to purchase and study the book. It changed the world. The 50th-anniversary version...

Duration:00:57:20

Maps of Meaning 12: Final - The Divinity of the Individual

10/11/2020
In this, the final Maps of Meaning lecture for 2017, Dr. Peterson reviews the year and its offerings: What is a belief system? Why are people so inclined to engage in conflict to protect their belief systems? It's partly because our belief systems are not only systems of belief, but structures that serve to render everyone who participates in that belief and its dramatization and acting out in the world predictable, trustworthy and cooperative (even when competing). Is there a hierarchy of...

Duration:02:27:17

Maps of Meaning 11: The Flood and the Tower

10/4/2020
In this lecture, Dr. Peterson continues his discussion of the archaic stories at the beginning of Genesis, including Cain and Abel, and the flood story of Noah (the return of chaos), and the story of the Tower of Babel (which he reads as a very old warning about the danger of erecting something akin to a totalitarian/utopian secular state -- that is pathological order).

Duration:02:32:59

Maps of Meaning 10: Genesis and the Buddha

9/27/2020
In this lecture, Dr. Peterson discusses the creation stories in Genesis, the first book of the Bible, and describes the parallels with the stories of the development of the Buddha from childhood to early adulthood, using the archetypal schema developed previously in the course. For Advertising Inquiries, visit https://www.advertisecast.com/TheJordanBPetersonPodcast

Duration:02:19:22

Maps of Meaning 09: Patterns of Symbolic Representation

9/20/2020
In this lecture, Dr. Peterson discusses the manner in which the fundamental symbolic archetypes (particularly those dealing with the Wise King and Tyrant) are hijacked for the purposes of propaganda. Ideologies are parasites. Their hosts are archetypes. Knowledge of the underlying archetypes can produce immunity against ideological possession. For Advertising Inquiries, visit https://www.advertisecast.com/TheJordanBPetersonPodcast

Duration:02:17:16

Maps of Meaning 08: Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation

9/13/2020
In this lecture, Dr. Peterson discusses the relationship between the basic categories of imagistic/symbolic representation and brain function, noting that the very hemispheres of the brain are adapted, right/left to the environmental or experiential permanence of chaos/order or unexplored/explored territory, with consciousness serving the Logos role of communicative explorer (a function related in one of its deepest manifestations to the function of the hypothalamically grounded dopaminergic...

Duration:02:22:33

Maps of Meaning 07: Images of Story & Metastory

9/6/2020
In this lecture, Dr. Peterson discusses how the basic or archetypal categories we use to frame the world are represented in image, where they existed long before their nature could be articulated. These categories include the individual (hero/adversary), culture (wise king/tyrant), and nature (destruction/creation). The heroic individual (the knower) is typically masculine, as is culture (the known), while the unknown is feminine. These categories can be conceptualized, as well, as explorer,...

Duration:02:17:19

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