The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

He is also the author of 2022's "Brain Energy," in which he argues that mental disorders are metabolic disorders of the brain.

This year's Pray 40 Challenge focuses on surrender and includes meditations on the powerful book He Leadeth Me.

I've written books surviving mold and old warriors.

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"Mentoring the Machines: Orientation - Part One: Surviving the Deep Impact of the Artificially Intelligent Tomorrow" (Book) https://www.amazon.com/Mentoring-Machines-Orientation-Artificially-Intelligent/dp/1645010821/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1705353143&refinements=p_27%3AJohn+Vervaeke&s=books&sr=1-2&text=John+Vervaeke

I have a popular book out called Mentoring the Machine that's coming out in serial form. The first two are out, in which I'm trying... What's the title? Mentoring the Machine. Mentoring the Machine. Oh, yeah.

I'm reading a book on Lectio Divina by, what's his name? The Ladder of the Monks. And he talks about when you're reading the text and you're actually being nourished by it. And of course, there's the manna from heaven and all that sort of stuff. And of course, you can't grasp it because you try and grasp it and store it, you'll lose it. And all that sort of Blakeian stuff that's there.

I've been writing a fair bit in this new book I'm finishing up called We Who Resset With God it'll be the subject of my next tour.

I've been writing a lot about the manner in which we come to distinguish truth from falsehood in general in our lives in the scientific enterprise and then let's say in matters of faith you know now the scientist types would say well all faith is delusional but I'm afraid we can't move forward without faith so that's not a helpful that's not a helpful objection.

But for me, the Republic does this for me, Plato's Republic. I will read the Republic and it's inevitably transformative. There's a reciprocal opening. I see something in the text I haven't seen, it opens me up. I go into my life, my life opens up, I'm transformed. I come back after a bit and I read the text and it opens itself up again to me. And it's inexhaustible, there's this inexhaustible fount.

And how, when I finally got Job, was I was actually watching a Tom Hanks movie called Job versus the Volcano, which is a very silly movie, it's a farce. But it's a guy who discovers he's only got a year to live and he goes on the proverbial last great journey.

I don't I'll talk about a couple different books today if I'm allowed to but one that's that that really did reach reach me, it was written by Rock Rogian who's a professor of finance at the University of Chicago and it's called The Third Pillar.

And what the thesis that that that Rock Rogian puts out, I think very effectively, is that if you have societies that he have either one of those out of kilter where where markets are too strong then then we run into environmental problems or we run into issues of distribution, we do have externalities negative externalities in markets that need to be corrected by proper but the role of community and the role of NGOs in the role of the volunteer sector the role of faith in a community the role is equally important if societies have any one of those missing they are not in optimal balance they tend towards crony capitalism.

And another book that I wanted to give a shout out to that I know you have read and so many people have is pursuing long books most recent book Best Things First.

And let's just be very clear in this book, pursuing long book points out 12 different policies, five of which are related to health, two of which are related to nutrition, one of education and four of which are economic that would cost $36 billion a year in a global economy that has 120 trillion dollars in a 120 depending on PP purchasing power parity but less than one third of 1% would actually save 4.2 million lives and would generate a higher GDP of $1.1 trillion particularly in sub-Saharan Africa where this growth is most needed.

Paul Conti wrote a book about this, but he talks about how many depressive and anxiety disorders are rooted in this unresolved emotional trauma from childhood and they and sometimes it's in the unconscious mind and they don't even know it.

I think it's just called The Auschwitz Album.

Christ said to his followers, the kingdom of God is spread upon the earth, but men will not see it or cannot see it, depending on the translation.