From the Great North

 

Jordan Peterson makes up for Justin Bieber in my book. I ran across this on YouTube. Has anyone heard of him? I going to check if he has any books.

 

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17 Responses to From the Great North

  1. 10 Cents10 Cents says:

    This guy is good. I am definitely going to be watching him in the future.

  2. EThompson says:

    I love this post. Thanks Dime.

    I agree that the disparity between income and even corporate status is that often women give birth and need to take on different priorities. Not all women are married to men as is Fiorina whose husband chose to quit his highly lucrative job to tend the family while she attempted to run for president. Women may not make choices to work 90 hours/week but if they do, this is what happens:
    Meg Whitman
    Carly Fiorina
    Andrea Jung
    Anne Mulcahy (who, btw, I met at a speaking engagement and manages to combine an absolutely charming demeanor with obvious brain power.)
    Oprah- Fortune 500
    Angela Ahrendts (retail icon extraordinaire)
    Tory Burch

    What feminists so irritatingly ignore is that in a free and competitive market, men and women must work like highly focused bird dogs or they won’t get ahead in the Major Leagues. This is just fact.

    It’s ok if you choose other priorities, but this needs to be respected and more importantly, understood that it is not a matter of gender discrimination. I once had a CEO ask me in a job interview if I was married with children. I could easily have taken offense but I did not because the job was all-consuming requiring 60 days a year of travel.

    You can’t have it all and expect to become CEO or POTUS because it really is a matter of time and I won’t let women who do not choose to make the personal sacrifices to enter this world tell the rest of us “it is discriminatory.”

    It is a choice.

  3. EThompson says:

    One more observation because I will have to argue with the gentleman who accuses males of ‘insanity’ for working 80 hours a week. This work ethic is precisely what has made this a prosperous and relatively safe country.

    Does anybody believe that our extremely expensive and intelligent high tech military protects our safety for free? Somebody has to pay for this and it is always the despised 1%.

    Having a family while imparting the values of fiscal success and work ethic doesn’t come easy. Nothing good comes cheaply or without sacrifice. (Ask the Trump kids.)

    What is most puzzling to me is that the ‘sacrifices’ my husband and I made to contribute to our country and our own well-being were hardly that at all. We’ve had a few rough spots, but for the most part, we’ve had a blast and enjoyed a huge sense of accomplishment.

    What is wrong with those who do not understand that?

  4. 10 Cents10 Cents says:

    Liz, some of that was for humor. There are people who are overworking. In Japan people some people die from overwork.
    What is the right level of work? How does one balance things?

  5. PencilvaniaPencilvania says:

    This gent sounds like the Victor Davis Hanson of sociology– I like his observations, they make sense based on what I see of society as well. There are broad differences between MOST men and MOST women, and extreme feminism on the left can’t bring itself to acknowledge that in their quest for ‘equality.’ (which is probably the wrong thing to pursue in the workforce, it should be more like ‘mutual respect.’)
    I also like what he says about gratitude, I think that is key to harmony, in personal relationships as well as societies.

  6. DevereauxDevereaux says:

    The four basic virtues of THIS nation:

    – Industriousness

    – Honesty

    – Marriage

    – Religiosity

  7. annefyannefy says:

    I discovered Jordan Peterson on Joe Rogan’s podcast. (He got Joe’s attention through a First Amendment issue in Canada. Jordan refuses to use all the newfangled made-up pronouns.) Have spent the last couple of months listening to everything I can find of him. I credit JP and Scott Adams with my (tenuous grip on) sanity these past months.
    https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1EODB_enUS593US593&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=joe+rogan+jordan+peterson&*

  8. annefyannefy says:

    p.s. Regarding books, JP wrote one in the late 90s called “Maps of Meaning”. My sister is reading it now. Reviews it as highly worthwhile but a hard slog.

    JP is saying so much all at one I usually listen to his speeches/talks/lectures 2-3 times before I feel like I have a grasp.

    • 10 Cents10 Cents says:

      It is great to have someone with some heft handle these topics. It takes a lot of courage.