Dealing With Dark Times | Jordan Peterson | 12 Rules for Life | Best Life Advice

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"12 Rules for Life: London: How To Academy" by Jordan Peterson
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➤➤Transcript (Partial):
Final rule. It’s called “Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.” And it's—it's a very—it's the most personal chapter in the book. It's a lot about my daughter. And my daughter was very ill when she was—well, when she was a kid, but particularly when she was a teenager she had a very terrible time of it. She had juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and when she was between the ages of 14 and 16 it first destroyed her hip which had to be replaced and then it destroyed the ankle on her other leg which had to be replaced and she walked around for two years on broken legs and she was taking massive doses of opiates and could hardly stay awake and, like—and she had this advanced autoimmune disease which produced all sorts of other symptoms that were just as bad as the joint degeneration but which are harder to describe. And so it's just bloody brutal. You know, and as a test of your faith, there's almost nothing that's more direct than a serious illness inflicted upon an innocent child. Right? And so, the chapter’s a meditation on that and also on—well, what to do in a situation like that because everyone is going to have a situation like that in some sense, you know, because you'll be faced with illness in the people that you love and in crisis. And so, it's a practical guide to coping with those sorts of things. Like in one of the things you do when you're overwhelmed by crisis is you shorten your time frame. You know, it’s like, you can't think about next month. Maybe you can't even bloody well think about next week or maybe not even tomorrow, you know, because now is just so overwhelming that that's all there is. It’s like, and that's what you do. You cut your time frame back until you can cope with it. And if it's not the next week that you see how to get through then it's the next day and if it's not the next day then it's the next hour and if it's not the next hour then it's the next minute. And you know, people are very, very, very, very tough. And it turns out that if you face things that you can put up with a lot more than you think you can put up with and you can do it without becoming corrupted. And she did recover quite—quite fully. And much as a consequence of her own machinations because she figured out what was wrong with her and then took the necessary steps to fix it, which is nothing short of a bloody miracle, as far as I'm concerned. Anyways, part of the cat bit is—I actually started by talking about our dog who actually died about a year ago but he’s still alive in the book. You know, I let people know ‘cause dog lovers love dogs and if you love cats then they think you don't like dogs, and then they, you know, they don't like you. So I also point out at the beginning of the chapter that, you know, if you want to pet a dog on the street, that's okay too. So you don’t have to get up in arms about it. But—but the idea is that, you know, you have to be alert when you're suffering. You have to be alert to the beauty in life, the unexpected beauty in life and that’s kind of what I was trying to get across with the idea of the cat. And there’s this cat that lives across the street from us called Ginger, and Ginger’s a Siamese cat, and cats really aren't domesticated eh, technically speaking, they’re still wild animals...

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