Jordan Peterson Live on Tour: How Chasing Your Dreams Transforms Who You Are
6/23/202559 min
In this live lecture from Omaha, Nebraska, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson weaves through biblical narratives and cultural critique—from Tolstoy’s suicidal despair to Moses’ encounter with the burning bush, from Cain’s failed sacrifice to James Bond as the symbol of romantic adventure. What do these stories have in common? What happens when we replace transcendent pursuit with technological pride or ideological dogma? This is a warning—and a call—to speak the truth, take up your cross, and climb. This “We Who Wrestle With God” tour stop was filmed in Omaha, NE, on October 21s
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(applause) Thank you, everyone. So imagine that if you have the ambitions to accomplish something, that you have to be devoted to it. You have to concentrate on it, you have to attend to it, you have to make it a priority. And what that means is that other concerns, other, other things you could attend to, other destinations towards which you might direct your actions, you have to sacrifice those to that thing you're devoted to. If you marry someone, you declare your devotion to them. You put them above all other men or women. You sacrifice the relationship you could have with all other men or women to that person. You put them at the pinnacle of the hierarchy of your relationships. And you do that when you, well, when you start a new business, or when you take on a new job. If, if you