Lecture: 2017 Maps of Meaning 01: Context and Background

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Strong rec nicolashahn · 2018-01 · on “Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?”

I like these ones (and even having attended Catholic high school, it was the first piece of media that made me actually realize how much human wisdom could be embedded in religious texts), but found his 2017 Maps of Meaning lectures more impactful, personally. He uses his archetypal lens on Pinocchio instead of Genesis for the first few lectures. There's a lot of content overlap but if you liked the Biblical series, definitely check out Maps of Meaning. [this video]

Strong rec RickS · 2019-05 · on “New Insights into Hikikomori – People Who Withdraw from Society for Years on End”

I know you're not looking for advice, so I'm not going to preach too hard at you, except to say that I recognize the somber lucidity of your tone, and I've been there. Depression's heaviest weapon is that it feels like the heaviest truth. It's a bit like being in a room within a room. If nothing outside can be perceived from within the walls, does it matter that it exists? I was surprised when I got out – I was sure it couldn't happen to me either. I didn't even realize it was happening to me until months in. Lots of things that I thought were concrete facts about myself and the world turned out to be configurable in ways I was ill equipped to predict until they happened. There was no secret

Strong rec dagav · 2020-05 · on “Surviving Depression”

I highly recommend you listen to these lecture series. I cannot overstate the profound effect they had on my life, by giving me the tools I needed to turn my depression around and give me a sense of balance and control in my life. [LINK] [this video]

Strong rec Yan-solucracy · 2020-11 · on “Ask HN: How to fix expectations and set up path for life?”

Watch Jordan Peterson's Maps of meaning course : [this video] , it won't solve everything but it will enable you to understand how to make sense out of life, and how your belief system works, so you can make it work for you.

Strong rec 8vectors · 2022-08 · on “Ask HN: Will I Ever Recover?”

Contrary to popular belief, the highest chance of success, and largest entrepreneurial successes, come from founders who are 47 years old when they start their companies. You are still 10 years away from the statistical "peak" to start your startup. Yes you will recover. This experience may be exactly what you need to become great. It's your choice to either hide from it and whither away in regret or face it head on and extract all the value it has to offer. Growth comes from painful reflection on our mistakes. Studying Stoicism and this lecture series really helped me get through the failure of my startup (Which I spent 7 years building and then had to sell for $1). [this video] Note the lecture

Recommends nicolashahn · 2018-01 · on “What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?”

For those interested in his non-gender identity content: His series on the Bible: [LINK] is generally regarded (by those I know, at least) as Jordan at his best. He goes through the first few stories in the Bible and tries to bring meaning to them, not from the fundamental Christian lens of "this is absolute truth," but more like: "Here are some archetypal patterns about the world and how to act in it that our ancestors have discovered over thousands of years and distilled into stories. Maybe they hold truth that isn't the 'word of God' truth, but observations about the world that have utility to us even as a modern, rational, scientific civilization. I'll back this up by tying it to studies

Recommends kleer001 · 2019-11 · on “Ask HN: Why the Hate?”

Because the world, for the most part, is (and always has been) a dangerous place and hate has proven to be a very useful (highly conserved through evolutionary time) adaptation to help keep small and delicate bands of our ancestors safe for one more day. You can see this bias towards negativity easily in the structure of basic emotions. There is one positive affect (happiness) and waaaaay more negative affects (fear, anger, disgust, sadness) and only one neutral (surprise). And those negative emotions are all very distinct. If you want more detail I can recommend over 120 hours of learning in the following (which I've watched and digested). They'll walk you through the details from the botto

Cites diyseguy · 2017-07 · on “Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?”

news.ycombinator.com though I wish it had a way to collapse uninteresting conversations. Stephen Colbert: [LINK] and lately I've been binge watching the Jordan Peterson lectures: [this video] ribbonfarm: though I usually only read the articles by Venkatesh Rao: [LINK] also bingewatching lessons on 2x from [LINK] . It used to be [LINK] but their servers are sluggish most of the time.