The KEY to Success: Prioritizing Your ACTIONS | Jordan Peterson EP 336

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1:16How do we, as human beings, think about reputation? and does reputation even matter anymore? If anyone can try to tear your reputation down, should we be focused on having a good reputation? You should be more focused on deserving a good reputation. What does that mean? Don't do things you know to be wrong. Don't lie. Don't be careless. See, I'm fortunate, I suppose. I put all my lectures online. So a non-biased sample of everything that I've ever said to students is available. Well, it hasn't come back to bite me. And that's hundreds of hours. Why? Well, because I've been fortunate enough not to have said anything fatal.

2:00Maybe that's because I'm careful with my words. I don't want to attribute too much virtue to myself in relationship to that. I know that good fortune plays an immense role in how things turn out for people and that you can get unlucky. you know one rule i didn't write down is act so that you can speak of what you do so there's two domains of lying right so one lie is a statement the other lie is an action you know it's wrong you do it anyway it looks to me like that's becoming riskier and riskier right people aren't doing that anymore because they're getting caught yes and the consequences are dire well and but then you think about this, one of the things that Carl Jung taught me again was that, you know, as we become more technologically powerful, the quality of our individual morality becomes an increasingly pressing social concern, because each of us are far more powerful than we once were for good and for evil.

3:02And so with this technological prowess comes an associated ethical demand. And I don't see a flaw in that argument. I don't see how that can be anything other than true. If technology multiplies your power, then it multiplies the cataclysmic consequences of your own immorality. Right. And if you did one thing 10 years ago and someone finds it, it could haunt you. There's no doubt about that. Not only could it, it will. You know, and that's a problem too, because of course people do make mistakes. I'm perfectly pleased that my teenage years aren't stored on YouTube, for example. Well, it must be terrifying to be a teenager now, knowing that your drunken foolishness at a party could become the next viral YouTube video.

3:48Well, it's normative behavior. I mean, if you look at adolescents, imagine there are adolescents who break rules all the time, including legal rules. Okay, well, they tend to become criminal. It's too much. But then at the opposite end of the distribution are adolescents who don't break any rules. And they tend to develop internalizing disorders, depression, anxiety disorders, that sort of thing. So they're too constrained. So there is a certain amount of exploration of rule breaking that's a normative part of healthy development. But now, you know, you could take a chunk of that, a video of it, a record of it, and it's permanent.

4:28Can you imagine not being able to forget your past? Not even you forgetting it, but the world. knowing your past, seeing it or witnessing it. Yes, and sort of unexpectedly and at any moment. What's your greatest fear with the fame and the acknowledgement that you have at the level of you have it? You know, that I'll betray the people that I've been speaking to with, you know, that I'll be insufficient to the challenge in some manner, ethically particularly. But more than that, even just physiologically, let's say, So that's definitely it.

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