150. Wokeism, Advice to Teens and the Dangers of Casual Relationships | Jordan Peterson EP. 150

The cover bothered me a lot because it was a cheap manipulation of something that had been working very well for Sports Illustrated. It was also an insistence that, all of a sudden, this non-athletic body type is as beautiful as the standard swimsuit model for Sports Illustrated, and it's not. It's not as athletic, and it's not as healthy, and that's that—and it's also not arbitrary.

Not everyone's a genius. No, not everyone's Picasso. No, not everyone's young and healthy. And no, not everyone is a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, period. And fuck you if you don't like it.

One thing I can say about abortion that I think would generate no objection is you wouldn't give one to your sister for a present, right? So, whatever it is, it's not desirable, and how not desirable it is at minimum open to question.

I don't think there's any such thing as a casual sexual relationship. I don't believe that. I've never seen any evidence that that's the case ... People rationalize that constantly because they want to believe... that short-term hedonistic gratification is ethically acceptable, and I don't think it is.

Alcohol is a drug that really radically decreases people's medium to long-term orientation ... It decreases anxiety, and it increases, likely, opiate bonding and dopamine-mediated extraversion. And so, it's cocaine, heroin, and a benzodiazepine rolled into one. So, it makes you not care, and for pure hedonism, there's nothing better than not caring.

When I look at someone who's obese on the street, I think, oh, that's too bad ... I don't think, you know, obese pig eats too much, has no self-control. I don't think that; I think bad mismatch between genetic proclivity and appalling diet.

I don't think there is such a thing as casual sex. I think that's indistinguishable from masturbation, which I also don't regard as a particularly heroic act.

Now we have an obesity problem, and it's a major problem, and I'm not going to pretend that it's okay. It's not okay. That doesn't mean I don't have sympathy for it. And I'm not willing to sacrifice any ideals for this idiot inclusiveness. I'm done with that, and so should everyone else be.

We've looked at what predicts success in complex functional organizations, and the two biggest predictors are IQ—because IQ is general cognitive ability, and that's just how fast and well you can solve any problem that requires abstraction, and solving it faster is obviously better if it's an important problem because it's more efficient. The other predictor is conscientiousness, not agreeableness.

Here's an interesting thing I used to tell my clients is don't do anything with anyone sexually that you wouldn't talk to them about.

Cocaine, it's like great for a week ... Not so good iterated over 20 years. Alcohol's the same way. Casual sex is the same way. Any of those. We all know this. There isn't anyone who doesn't know these things.

Even if you're a very beautiful woman, you're hard-pressed to be beautiful enough to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated for the swimsuit issue.

If you drew two random people from the population, one man and one woman, and you had to guess who experienced more negative emotion on average, if you guessed the woman, you'd be right 60% of the time.

People who are less verbally sophisticated are more likely to gravitate towards all-encompassing simple theories—because of course they are.

In the managerial domain, there's some evidence that agreeableness is negatively correlated with success. And I think that's because agreeable managers get taken advantage of, they can't discipline their employees properly, and they get resentful.

I read that butterflies can detect departures from symmetry of one part in a million in potential mates ... Man, that's pretty beautiful. It's like, yeah, that's sexual selection boys and girls.

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