Ironically this doesn't seem to be much of a problem in Norway, both as it is and as I remember it, so I can understand if it's a confusing premise.
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I do think that part of his appeal is coming at that question directly. The moment in the NYT piece where he tells that young client “of course you are depressed, your situation sucks” is very affecting.
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Exactly. I've wondered about doing the same thing, minus the conservative crank angle, but, in an ironic echo of Peterson, I hadn't thought my life was together enough to qualify.
Maybe in a decade or so.
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Out of curiosity, why is the popular answer to this question typically something about taking responsibility for yourself, and not about making the bigger system better?
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In honesty, I was thinking something more in the vein of a genuine social movement than the Peterson model of an extended book tour.
Hence my point about not being sure if qualify to do something like that, especially given I've only just gotten my bearings in my own life.
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Genuine social movements are way more fun to plan than actually try & execute.
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get into it, and you'll find it more fun than you think if you're the focal point. Emotional energy is very real. Peterson's flying high on it right now.
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Exactly why I'm wary of making the attempt.
It seems Peterson thought he was a fairly principled guy. He wasn't as right as he thought he was.
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Plus there's that whole become a professor, study for years, write a bestseller thing to do first. So much work!
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Eh, other people have become stars without that prep work.
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I doubt there is much fame to be derived from my current job as a computational linguist, but I very much didn't do the "required" prep work.
Ah? You don't think all your years of meditation and magic and so on don't qualify you to say some things others might find useful? Perhaps you've done more work than is obvious.
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I rather meant I didn't get the master's degree all my colleagues seem to be equipped with, nor the PhD of my boss.
In fact, I have no formal qualifications. None.
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