#436 - Dr Jordan B. Peterson - Your Life Is Built For More

One of the roles of a good manager is to make him or herself irrelevant ... You're not a good manager if your company would collapse if you disappeared.

What's the ultimate predator? What's the ultimate predator? What's the enemy you harbor in your own heart who hates you? That's the ultimate predator.

If you're dealing with competent people and you admit your ignorance, the competent people never judge you harshly for that as long as you've been paying attention.

I've also watched what happens to women who hit 29 or 30 and then can't conceive, and that is not a fate I would wish on anyone. It's awful, and 30 % of couples fall into that. 30% of couples have difficulty conceiving.

How do you defeat evil? You defeat the evil in your own heart. That is how you do it.

What I've seen is that, as women progress toward their... late 20s, there's a psychological transformation. And what happens is that they place less emphasis on their career and way more emphasis, particularly, on having a child, and that really reaches a crisis point around 29 or 30 for the vast majority of women, and their attitude flips.

How much should your children be left on their own? The answer is as much as they can tolerate. And how much is that? Well, you find out with each child, but it's certainly possible to not deprive your child enough.

It's so preposterous all of that, everything that's happened to Rogan, all this idiocy around race, this insistence that we can be reduced to our race, our ethnicity, our sexual identity. It's so appalling, and it's so destructive.

This idea that the planet has too many people on it... There is no sentiment more implicitly genocidal than that statement.

You might ask yourself, what's the best antidote to the discomfort of life? And you might say, well, it's comfort. And I suppose that's what you act out when you swaddle a baby. But a better antidote is something like adventure to excellence. That's a far better antidote to suffering than the mere absence of suffering.

Every time you make a status shift as you move upwards, of course you have imposter syndrome, because when you first make a transition into a new role, you are an imposter—because you're a beginner. You don't know what you're doing.

The more successful you are as a man, the more women like you.

Countries that are willing to educate women, that's the best predictor of their future economic success.