10 minutes to start your day off right Motivational speech by Jordan Peterson Flawless Motivation

You know that if you take people and I told you this and you voluntarily make them aware of the things they are avoiding and are afraid of you then know that they know they need to accomplish their goals. If you can teach people to face the things they fear they become stronger and you don't know what the upper limits are because you can ask yourself what if you avoided doing that for 10 years what you knew you needed to do by your own definitions within the value structure that you built to the extent that you did what you Well you know there are remarkable people who have come into the world from time to time and there are people who take decades to long to figure out what they could be if they were what they were if they were ahead of them talk of growing up and they get stronger and stronger and stronger and we don't know the limits of what we do and So you may partly be left at your feet because perhaps the reason why you are suffering unbearably is because you are not everything that you can be and you know it and definitely have to accept it. and it's a terrible thing to consider but there's real promise in it right because it means there's probably another way you can look at the world and number one is another way you can see the world so what it reflects to you will be much better than what it reflects back. You well imagine the second part of now and then that a lot of people have done because we've done so much as human beings we've done a lot of remarkable things and I've already told you what I'm doing today For example, about 250,000 people will be lifted out of abject poverty and about 300,000 people connected to the electric power grid, we are collectively lifting people out of poverty which is the fastest ever in the history of mankind. speed has happened. Huge margin n and this is going on incredibly fast as poverty was not planned between the years 2000 and 2015 and it was completed by 2013. So inequality is developing in many places and you hear a lot of political movements about it but overall the tide is raising everyone and it's a big deal that we don't know how fast we can multiply that if people work together and really aim for it because you know my experience with people is that we're probably running at about 51 of our capacity something i mean you can think about it yourself I often get asked by undergraduates how many hours a day do you waste or how many hours a week do you waste and the classic answer is something like four to six hours a day you are looking at inefficient study things that not only you it don't want to look you don't even care you feel terrible about watching I have 100 hours that's two and a half full work weeks that's half a year of work weeks per year and if your time is 20 hours that's a radical less, so it's probably more than 50 if you think about the terms of deferred pay if you're wasting 20 hours a week you're wasting 50 000 a year and you're doing that now And that's because you're wasting 50 000 a year. It's kind of a big catastrophe for me to waste it because I'm almost never going to last long and so if your life isn't everything you yourself might ask what would happen if you stop wasting the opportunities in front of you who knows how much more efficient 10 times more efficient is 20 times more efficient that pareto distribution you don't know how skilled people make it How to achieve this is completely off the charts and what if we all collectively did our bit and stop making things worse because that's another thing people do all the time not only to make things better for them do not do what they should actively try to make things worse because they are spiteful or angry or proud or treachery or or homicide or genocide or all of those things bundled together in an absolutely pathological package. If people really stopped trying to make things worse, we don't know how much better they would get, so It is this strange dynamic that is part of an existential system of thought between human vulnerability to social judgment, both of which are major causes of suffering and the failure of individuals to adopt the responsibility they know they must embrace and that is what Which is also interesting is like another thing I've always asked my grad classes do you know this is the idea that people have a conscience and you know what conscience is this in your mind feeling or sound before you do something you know it's stupid maybe you shouldn't do that stupid thing you don't need to hear it funny but you move on and on anyway and then of course what Vivek said you were essentially going to be so you to feel even more stupid about it, if it happened by accident because you know I knew it was going to happen, I got a warning that it was going to happen and I went and did it anyway and funny thing too that conscience works within people and we don't really understand what it is so you can very well say what will happen

If you follow your conscience for five years or ten years, what kind of family can you be in, what kind of relationship can you have, what kind of relationship can you have and you can be a murderer. that a relationship that is forged on the basis of who you really are is going to be stronger and more welcoming than one that is forged on the basis of who you are no longer, that means the person you are with You are at your full potential and your catastrophe and this is a very difficult thing to negotiate, but if you negotiate it well at least you have something to stand by. to be somewhere is solar and you have somewhere to live then you have a real life and this is a great basis for bringing children into the world for example because you want to have a real relationship with them instead of torturing them half can make, which happens in a very large number of very large cases, it's much more than that too because and that's what I'll put off and that's why I come Paco social example reading because it is not only your destiny depends on whether you do your work together or not and to what extent you decide that you are going to live your real existence, it is only your It's not luck, it's the fate of everyone you network with and so you know well you think there are 9 billion 7 billion people in the world going to a peak of about 9 billion on the way and then this will decrease rapidly but seven billion people in the world and who you are you are only a tiny bit of dust out of that seven billion and so it doesn't really matter what you do or don't do but it's not that it's wrong The model is because you're at the center of a network, you're a node in a network, of course it's even more true now that we have social media you'll know at least a thousand people in your life and they're a will know a thousand people' and that puts you one person away from a million and two people away from a billion and that's how you are connected and the things you do are one are like dropping a stone in a pond the waves go outwards and they affect things in ways that you can't fully understand and that means the things you do and what you don't are much more important than thought and so if you act this way of course the horror of realizing that it really starts no matter what you do and you may well say are that it is better to live a meaningless existence than to believe that it matters but I mean if you really asked yourself would you be so confident that if you had the choice I could live without any responsibility the payoff is that nothing matters or i can reverse it and everything matters but i have to take the responsibility attached to it it is not so clear to me people will take the meaningful path when you say well because nihilists are terrible have no meaning in their lives and they still suffer yes, but the benefit is that their no responsibility so it's payoff and i really think motivation says well i can't help being nihilistic all my belief systems have collapsed like yeah maybe you just let them fall because it is much easier than acting them out and the price you pay is some meaningless suffering but you can always rant about it and people will feel sorry for you and you have the option to take the path of martyrdom So it's a pretty good deal, especially when those options are yours to properly bear the burden and live clearly in a world that Solzhenitsyn thought and so many people in the 20th century. It's just not that. the best example even if that is the best example that if you lead a diseased life you distort your society and if enough people do that then it is really hell and you can read gulag r if your Have the courage to do that and you'll see what the hell it really is like and then you decide. can decide whether this is the place you want to go or more importantly if it is a light if it is a place you love to meet and take all your family and friends because This is what happened in the 20th century when you were moving on from life and you have a plan or a dream and it breaks you that someone dies or a relationship breaks up or you have a terrible upset in your career. Or you get sick in some unexpected way that everything around you falls apart when you fall under the belly of a chaotic path that's absolutely right yes absolutely and then maybe you just stay there because it's not necessary people out You know that people are forever in despair but often something tragic and terrible happens to you and you fall apart and you learn something profound as a result and you put yourself back together and When you come back you're so much more than when you went in and it's happening on a smaller scale. Every time you learn something you know that if you're really It's usually painful it usually means you have to recognize that you're wrong in something have to heal, so imagine yourself as you go through a series of changes in your life, collapse into the chaotic underworld and then many resurrections that happen continuously