541. Why We Stopped Progressing | Peter Thiel

541. Why We Stopped Progressing | Peter Thiel

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How to Stop Sabotaging Your Own Life

What if the self you keep trying to serve isn't actually you at all? In this lecture, the final stop of a 60 city tour, Jordan Peterson begins with an unlikely admission from the world's most famous atheist and follows it into the two shortest, densest paragraphs in the Bible: th ...  Show more

Why Short-Term Pleasure Is Ruining Your Life

What does it mean that every glance you take is a moral act — and that the world you see is literally shaped by what you're aiming at when you look? This lecture builds from a deceptively simple observation about perception and intent into one of the oldest and most unsettling id ...  Show more

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