What do you do when horrible things are chasing you? - Jordan Peterson
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# What do you do when horrible things are chasing you? - Jordan Peterson
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## Summary
What do you do when horrible things are chasing you? Turn around, chase them back. That's your best bet. Well, that's such a cool principle, too, because there's a metaphysical principle there, too, which is, you know, why does reality have an adversarial nature? Why would God set something on you? ...
## Corrected Transcript / Extracted Text
What do you do when horrible things are chasing you? Turn around, chase them back. That's your best bet. Well, that's such a cool principle, too, because there's a metaphysical principle there, too, which is, you know, why does reality have an adversarial nature? Why would God set something on you? An adversary makes you stronger. Well, isn't that cruel? It's like, not if the person who sets the adversary on you believes that you could win. Now, maybe that's an insufficient explanation, but there's something about it that's... You know, you can think about this biologically, too. I was reading the Master in his Emissary, which is quite an interesting book about hemisphere function. And the author pointed out that if you want to make a very small movement with your right hand, the best way to do that is to put your left hand up and then to push against your right hand and to push. Opponent processing, precision in action is a consequence of opponent processing. You have opponent processing between the right and left to the right hand and to the right hand and to the right hand. That's what the atmosphere is. To make things function, you need this opposition between powerful forces. And I think that's built into the opposition between chaos and order. That's hemispherically represented. But also something like the opposition between good and evil. Maybe you get a higher good when there's opposition between good and evil. I mean, obviously these are ideas that are at the absolute extent of my cognitive ability to try to think them through, when good and evil are both possibilities is a higher good than you good you get with just good.
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What do you do when horrible things are chasing you? - Jordan Peterson
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## Key Claims
- What do you do when horrible things are chasing you? Turn around, chase them back.
- Well, that's such a cool principle, too, because there's a metaphysical principle there, too, which is, you know, why does reality have an adversarial nature? Why would God set something on you? An adversary makes you stronger.
- Well, isn't that cruel? It's like, not if the person who sets the adversary on you believes that you could win.
- Now, maybe that's an insufficient explanation, but there's something about it that's.
- You know, you can think about this biologically, too.
## Topic Application
- **wealth**: Business/finance
- **mindset**: Mindset/psychology
- **ai**: AI/tech
## Caveats
## Related Sources (Idea-to-Idea)
- **[COMPLEMENTS]** [[Jordan Peterson on facing your problems]] — Both Peterson clips. This one says chase back what horrifies you; the other says face interpersonal problems immediately "to the bottom." Both apply the same adversarial principle: confronting difficulty once is better than enduring it daily.
- **[COMPLEMENTS]** [[Today, its questionable how many people truly live, let alone live dangerously]] — "Turn around and chase them back" is Nietzsche's "live dangerously" in action — confronting what terrifies you rather than fleeing. Both frame adversity as the path to freedom.
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