Anyone have thoughts on why passions run so high around Jordan Peterson? Seems to be an unusually polarizing figure.
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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