“To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).“
Pseudo-intellectual drivel that’s void of substance and sounds “smort” to less critical readers.
By walking with your shoulders back, you:
Accept responsibility (which is inherently terrible?)
Turn potential into actuality (butchered Aristotle quote?)
Are vulnerable (which is a burden?)
Accept you aren’t a child (only children hunch their shoulders?)
Are willing to sacrifice (because it’s such a big sacrifice?)
Make God happy (God hates a sloucher?).
It’s airy fairy, vague platitudes bereft of substance or value that prays upon readers who just see fancy words and thus follow the advice that was ultimately presented with such a weak argument that it would struggle to hold up a fart.
If the fluffy language was removed from the actual “points” Mr Peterson was making, all that would be left is flavourless, Biblical bubblegum.
Want some real advice?
Stand up straight with your shoulders back; it presents to others that you are confident. By presenting yourself as confident, you will be treated by others as if you were confident. And thanks to that feedback loop you have created (look confident, be treated like a confident person), you afford yourself a strong opportunity to feel confident from within. Oh and God hates you if you slouch.
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“To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).“
Pseudo-intellectual drivel that’s void of substance and sounds “smort” to less critical readers.
By walking with your shoulders back, you:
It’s airy fairy, vague platitudes bereft of substance or value that prays upon readers who just see fancy words and thus follow the advice that was ultimately presented with such a weak argument that it would struggle to hold up a fart.
If the fluffy language was removed from the actual “points” Mr Peterson was making, all that would be left is flavourless, Biblical bubblegum.
Want some real advice?
Stand up straight with your shoulders back; it presents to others that you are confident. By presenting yourself as confident, you will be treated by others as if you were confident. And thanks to that feedback loop you have created (look confident, be treated like a confident person), you afford yourself a strong opportunity to feel confident from within. Oh and God hates you if you slouch.