This week, as we begin the New Year, I discuss the implications of standing still and, conversely, how moving forward offers opportunity to develop.


** Mondays of Meaning
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December 23rd 2024 | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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Hello,

In this week’s edition, as we begin the New Year, I discuss the implications of standing still, and, conversely, how moving forward offers opportunity to develop. Then, I share a lecture from my “We Who Wrestle With God” tour. From the archives, I look back on a New Years letter I wrote several years ago.

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If you never start anything new, you will not develop. The willingness to be a fool is the precursor to transformation — which is to say humility — but you must begin somewhere. After all, when people look back on their lives, they are much more unhappy about what they did not do than the mistakes they made.

When something beckons to you and fills you with interest, it becomes a beacon of light. It may be only dimly apprehended, but by taking steps toward it, you will become enlightened and informed because of the nature of your experience. You are pushing yourself beyond where you have been, so you learn. But the light is not permanently fixated; it will move. So you must shift yourself slightly as you move forward. You move toward the pillar of light you are following, then it moves — just like God in the Egyptian desert in Exodus. You move toward the light, and it moves away. It will guide you forward.

Most importantly, you will not stay in stasis, nor will you wander around in circles. Even though you may have traveled 20 miles and only moved forward 3 miles, you have at least moved forward instead of backward. The Gospel of Matthew says, “For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.” It is a warning: Do not stay in one place. The world moves away from you if you stand still. There is no stasis; there is only backwards. If you are not moving forward, then you are moving backward.

As you encounter and tangle with the world, you become more informed. As you continue, you change. You will become smarter as you move forward. Rest assured, you will stumble and make mistakes; there will be no shortage of backtracking. But when you are trying, you will engage in redemptive mistakes. If you pay attention, you will be informed by the results of your errors.
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** On The Podcast
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We Who Wrestle With God: In the Image of God

This week, I am sharing the lecture I gave at the North Charleston Coliseum on my “We Who Wrestle With God” tour. In it, I discuss the markers of identity, not as originating from an assumption or a decision, but from a source far beyond our knowledge and understanding. Divine anchors properly define identity, which I analyze alongside the book of Genesis and the story of Peter Pan.
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** From The Archives
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A New Years Letter To The World

At the end of 2016, I wrote a letter to the world in light of the approaching New Year. It was a call to action, a call to wake up, to take the world on our shoulders and adopt individual responsibility for suffering — and to find meaning. It still stands as a call to make yourself a better person in the incoming year, to fix what you can — to start small and then expand your reach. If we do this, there will be less pointless and unnecessary suffering. Undoubtedly, the world will be a better place.
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Thank you for reading,

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

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