Interview with Jordan Peterson: Editing Your Life Story and Self-Improvement, Lecture notes of Psychology

Download Interview with Jordan Peterson: Editing Your Life Story and Self-Improvement and more Lecture notes Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! TRANSFORMU EDITING YOUR LIFE STORY With Jordan Peterson WORKBOOK  2 In a short span of time, less than 18 months, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson has joined the club of public figures of whom we say they “need no introduction.” He is not only a Canadian clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, and author of Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief and 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote To Chaos, Peterson is a bona fide internet sensation, with speaking gigs and debates arranged all over the world. I first reached out to him in September of 2016, as he was beginning to shoot a series of videos on his YouTube channel in which he criticized political correctness and the Canadian government's Bill C-16, which became law the next year, and which now forces speech regarding the made-up pronouns of deeply confused people known as non-binary or trans. Back then, no one knew who we was apart from grateful student and some Canadians who were paying attention to the 5 GOING DEEPER We all remember ourselves when we were young through an interpretive lens that itself shapes our perceptions of the past. Why is it important to notice this lens and find out what it’s editing out or amplifying? In the story of your life, what kind of character are you? (i.e the hero, the victim, the villain, the fool) 6 Would you like to change which role you play? According to the Self Authoring Suite, you can! Why is it that writing down life plans improves work performance? List some ways in which self-doubt ruthlessly undermines the plans you have made for self-improvement and growth: 7 Do you have goals? By goals I mean: the standard for my new friendships; improvements in the way my family works and plays together; start praying daily; earn 10% more this year. What are your top five goals? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. In Hebrews 2:15 we learn that the devil keeps people in bondage all their lives through the fear of death. How can small acts of daily self-mortification (self-death, literally) begin to “tame that fear” because it becomes a habit that leads to small victories and personal growth? In the interview, Dr. Peterson talk about mini- versions of death during our lives (in the form of losses or