Anyone have thoughts on why passions run so high around Jordan Peterson? Seems to be an unusually polarizing figure.
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That's an interesting distinction. I think that there's at least something very similar to the feeling that one deserves to be at the top, and the idea that based on one's personal qualities one has won or will win whatever competition happens to exist to get to the top
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And then the main question I'd ask is this: in his picture of things, to what extent are personal qualities the determinative factor of who wins the sorting game, as opposed to circumstances outside one's control, luck, inheritance, and so on?
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I've listened to him speak at length. My overwhelming impression is that he does NOT make the fundamental attribution error. His psychological training and clinical work has prevented him from making that mistake.
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What he does assert (with evidence) is that certain personality types are better suited for certain sorting games. He notes that cutthroat, workaholic, mildly sociopathic personalities tend to do well in corporate power hierarchies. He doesn't say this is a good thing.
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that might amount to a weak claim of personality determinism. Because he's got a clinical/self-help orientation though he tries to help people either improve at their relevant sorting game, or find a better environment where they are more able to thrive.
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this orientation is very different from what activists attempting to do institutional change are focused on though. it's a major point of contention. JBP says "adapt to your environment". The activists say "forcibly change the environment".
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He doesn't say that any particular category of people deserves to be at the top just because they are members of that category. He also doesn't say that competitive sorting games are fair, just that they exist, and given that they do it's in your best interest to learn them.
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