Why Jordan Peterson Will Change Your Life!

Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist who informs listeners about how to improve oneself.

He believes that time is limited, and one should improve oneself to get to the dream life they want to be in.

He is a major influence in my life, not only does he give valuable information, but he has amazing quotes to back them up, like…

“You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.”

From watching Jordan Peterson’s videos, it became clear to me why a lot of us are unhappy. Why are we unhappy you ask? Purely because we are tolerating the negative aspects of our lives, for example, a specific person could be inducing your state of unhappiness, yet we still want them to be part of our lives due to our close attachment to them.

This inevitably causes frustration, leading to possible depression. However, this is not the only factor that induces a state of unhappiness, what else you may ask? Well if we are not improving ourselves like learning a new language, writing a blog post ( ;p) or even working out, then we become unsatisfied with ourselves or compliant with our unsatisfactory existence.

How do we solve this you may ask? The one thing we can do to solve this, is by taking a deeper look into ourselves and think, “where do I want to be in 5 or 10 years from now?” when you have come up with the answer, take the necessary actions or steps to fulfil that dream. But remember, even if you don’t spend 100% of your time on the necessary steps, do think to yourself that even doing 5% of it, is better than doing nothing.

Like, doing 5 push-ups is better than doing none at all. Attain this mentality and you will go far, my friend!

An additional rule Jordan Peterson likes to follow is, only compare to yesterdays version of you, and don’t compare to other people. Why? When you compare to other people, you assume they attained that goal quite easily, well this is not the case, most individuals worked hard and failed numerous times until they attained their goal. When we compare, we begin to judge ourselves negatively, which will result in quitting our goal altogether.

However, when you compare to your yesterdays self, you will see slight improvements and be motivated to outdo yesterdays version of you. So again, compare with your yesterdays self and not other people.

“If you have to choose, be the one who does things, instead of the one who is seen to do things.”

We, as people are seen to procrastinate a lot and not take action. Procrastination does have its importance in some aspects. But if we’re procrastinating for 90% of the time, that’s where we see issues arising.

Like for example, if you are procrastinating whether to sign up to my newsletter then you are not taking action. (just kidding haha, I merely wanted to do a shameless plug of my newsletter — link)

But to the point at hand, procrastinate a bit then take action! After all, time is limited, if you spend most of that time imagining, then you will not accomplish as much to someone who does take action.

“If old memories still make you cry, write them down carefully and completely.”

We as people have a troubled past that some of us want to forget, this can negatively impact us indirectly in certain aspects of our existence like if we had a troubled relationship with our parents, this can make us hesitant to pursue close relationships with other people.

This is why you need to look at your troubled past and reflect on them, for it not to impact on your future endeavours

“Treat yourself as if you were someone that you are responsible for helping.”

If we truly loved ourselves, we would be cautious about the things we do/take, this could be smoking, abusing alcohol and so on.

When you see yourself, see yourself as someone you want to help. In other words, cautiously think, would I recommend for my own son/daughter do what I am doing right now? If the answer is no, then you know what to do.

“Do not try to rescue someone who does not want to be rescued, and be very careful about rescuing someone who does.”

Rescuing someone who does not want to be rescued only wastes your time, and as we know, time is a limited resource. However, rescuing someone who does want to be rescued, should be handled with caution. After all, we are not entirely sure of their motivations.

Conclusion

If you listen to these steps, it WILL change your life for the better, and trust me, it will be worth it in the long-run. I used to be someone who was not happy with himself, someone who lacked confidence until I listen to Jordan Peterson's advice.

If you want a better life and a happier one at that, then do listen to him.

These are the few lessons I have learned from Jordan Peterson, I hope you enjoyed this article and found it useful in some ways!

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