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Peterson Admits He Got This Wrong

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

14 HOURS AGO
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

14 HOURS AGO
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What does a man who spent seventy five years living in his father’s tent have to do with the question you have been avoiding about your own life? In this lecture, Jordan Peterson works through the story of Abraham and arrives at the hardest passage in scri...

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Jordan Peterson reads the stories of Abraham and Moses as a framework for understanding sacrifice, responsibility, faith, freedom, and the pursuit of a meaningful life.
01:01
Ancient stories can illuminate the path forward
12:23
The divine call is the call to adventure
22:54
You pay for what you avoid
34:39
Abraham’s ultimate test
42:39
A good mother must eventually fail
57:46
Faith is courage without complete knowledge
1:03:51
The conscience is the voice of God within
1:09:33
Every gift carries a temptation
1:13:51
Use words before force
1:17:27
Dreams are experiments in possibility
1:23:57
Small fixes can put your life in order

Chapters

Abraham’s call beyond comfort
00:00
Sacrifice, maturity, and the binding of Isaac
27:08
Faith, truth, and the road to greater meaning
52:55
Power, persuasion, and the imagination of a future
1:11:32
Authoring a life through concrete aims
1:19:07
Faith in practice, family, and committed life
1:26:11

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Jordan B. Peterson: So I'm going to leap right into the story tonight, and I'll backfill and expand as we go along. On this tour, I've been walking through a selection of the biblical stories. That's what I do in this book, We Who Wrestle With God. And as ...