Jordan B. Peterson writes in “12 Rules for Life - an antidote to chaos” that you should “compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today”
The same Jordan B Peterson who asked "Is it possible that young women are so outraged because they are craving infant contact in a society that makes that very difficult?" -Jordan Peterson, infant craver
Who denies women have been systematically oppressed: "The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory." -Jordan Peterson, history understander
Who claims to be a champion free speech, yet has sued and threatened several of his critics?
>Peterson additionally threatened to file a defamation lawsuit against Kate Manne, who accused him of misogyny in a critical book review of 12 Rules for Life. [212] Following a negative book review of 12 Rules for Life in the New York Times by Pankaj Mishra, Peterson called Mishra an "arrogant racist son of a bitch" and threatened to "slap" Mishra should they ever meet in person.[213]
sure. I'm no big fan, but don't color good advice bad when it comes from the wrong person.
All his quote is advocating for is self-reference and relativity with regards to self improvement.
It's sort of like quoting Mark Twain. 4/5 people will enjoy the quote, that last person will bring up what a tyrannical bigoted racist he was. (opinion theirs)
The reality is that people who aren't necessarily great themselves can bring wisdom to our attention. Just because it was THEM that had the idea, or at least the ability to bring that idea to words, doesn't invalidate the idea.
idlewords|6 years ago
trulyrandom|6 years ago
DonHopkins|6 years ago
Who denies women have been systematically oppressed: "The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory." -Jordan Peterson, history understander
Who claims to be a champion free speech, yet has sued and threatened several of his critics?
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson
>Peterson additionally threatened to file a defamation lawsuit against Kate Manne, who accused him of misogyny in a critical book review of 12 Rules for Life. [212] Following a negative book review of 12 Rules for Life in the New York Times by Pankaj Mishra, Peterson called Mishra an "arrogant racist son of a bitch" and threatened to "slap" Mishra should they ever meet in person.[213]
[212] https://www.thecut.com/2018/09/jordan-peterson-threatened-to...
[213] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/23/jordan...
dang|6 years ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
serf|6 years ago
sure. I'm no big fan, but don't color good advice bad when it comes from the wrong person.
All his quote is advocating for is self-reference and relativity with regards to self improvement.
It's sort of like quoting Mark Twain. 4/5 people will enjoy the quote, that last person will bring up what a tyrannical bigoted racist he was. (opinion theirs)
The reality is that people who aren't necessarily great themselves can bring wisdom to our attention. Just because it was THEM that had the idea, or at least the ability to bring that idea to words, doesn't invalidate the idea.