A Reminder To Treat Yourself Better | Jordan Peterson Motivation | 12 Rules For Life

"It's a real existential question for people. It’s like, why the hell should you take care of something as sorry and wretched as you are?"
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➤➤Transcript (partial):
Rule number 2 is “treat yourself like you're someone that you care about.” See, I read this piece of work by Jung a long while back. It was a meditation on the injunction to treat your neighbor as—as you would like to be treated, something like that. And what you pointed out, which I really liked, was that that wasn't an injunction to be nice to other people. It was an invitation to reciprocity. It was something like this. It's like you should figure out how you would like to be treated, like you were taking care of yourself, not how you would like people to respond to you. It's more important than that. It's like, imagine you had a child that you really cared for and someone said, well, people will treat this child exactly like you want them to, but you have to figure out what that is. And so then you'd have to sit down for like a month and you'd think, okay, well, how do you want your child to be treated? You don't want everyone just to be nice to him, you know? You want people to challenge him and you want people to discipline him and you want people to tell him when he's wrong. It's like, you don't just want everyone to be nice. That's—that's pathetic. It's pathetic. There's no challenge in that. And so, well, you want to treat other people like you would like to be treated. Well, then you have to figure out how would you like to be treated? And well, you'd like people to fawn all over you and just lay everything at your feet. It's like, no. That's not something you'd wish for for someone that you were taking care of. Then there's an additional problem, which is it's often the case that people will treat other people better than they treat themselves. That happens extremely frequently. So one of the things I pointed out in Chapter 2 was that if you have a dog and you take him to a vet and the vet gives you the prescription medicine, you'll go buy the medicine and you will give it to the dog and you will do it properly. But if you go yourself to a doctor and you get a prescription, there's a 30% chance you won't even pick up the medication. And if you do, there's a 50% chance that you won't administer it to yourself properly. And so I really thought about that when I first came across that statistic, it really—it was another one of those little facts. I thought, “What the hell is up with that?” It's like, you'll do it for your dog. So obviously you'll do it for something you care about and you're conscientious enough so you'll actually do it. So like, why wouldn't you do it for you? Your dog likes you. You know, even your dog would rather that you did, but you don't. And it's not only because they don't take care of themselves. There's some skepticism about doctors, but you could be just as skeptical about the vet. So it's a deep meditation. I would say. And what I've done with these rules is they're very simple rules and they're—they’re kind of comical and tongue in cheek in some ways. But what I've tried to do is like, pull them apart and show what's underneath them and to go down as deep as I possibly can. In Rule 2, it's a bit of a meditation on why people don't like themselves very much, and I think there's two reasons really. And one is that we're—we're fragile and damage able and imperfect in multiple dimensions all the time, and that often just gets worse. It gets—lots of things get worse as you get old, for example. So, it's not necessarily that easy for a self-conscious being who's extraordinarily aware of his or her own fragility and—but not just fragility... foolishness and errors. Like, you know yourself better than anyone else knows you and you know you...

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