im 98 yrs old listen to your body and treat your family friends well I know i haven't much time please listen to your inner self. life is tough make it easy and don't beat your self up over mistakes try learn be kind to you. night my fellow humans..

Last year I attempted suicide. I was newly single and jobless. I was living out of my truck and extremely lonely. I couldn't even afford data on my phone to properly communicate with the outside world, or my mother in England (I live in NZ). One day, when I was sitting outside a café, using their free wifi, I saw a suggested video pop up of a "Jordan Peterson Owns..." I clicked on it. It was entertaining. That led me to watch other videos of his and soon I found out that he wasn't just someone who puts people in their place- but a loving, caring man with great wisdom and knowledge on how to fix the mess I called my life. I parked outside that same café every night for a couple of weeks and I've been obsessed with his teachings ever since. I know he hears this a lot; and for good reason, but this man has literally saved my life. I keep his book on me like a bible and I revisit old lectures all the time. I'm no longer suicidal. I'm not longer homeless. I have a room to clean. Thank you, Dr. Peterson. Edit: I'm completely blown away by all the lovely messages from people from all over the world. It gives me a great feeling of global unity, that we are all one, fighting the same battle. Endless love and respect to you all. I wish you nothing but happiness. An update to my life: I just got a puppy. I guess you could say I took rule 12 a little too seriously and instead of petting a cat (in this case a dog) I actually adopted one. Take care, love to you all.

I don’t think many other 17 year olds are watching this, but I for sure am. This man is amazing

When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. We hope to see more like this.

Being 18 years old watching him is probably the best choice ive ever made

4 million people took an hour and thirty minutes out of their day to watch a lecture on how to better their lives. I officially have hope for the future.

What a shame that some colleges are prohibiting their students from hearing Jordan Peterson's very important lessons for life. What a great loss. What i've noticed in my "working class life" is that many of the younger people have found him and that his lectures are available online (youtube). We need more of this man and those like him.

This Canadian guy is not just a buddy, he's a friend.

The moment I found Jordan Peterson, my love of learning returned. This world has really got me down. Jordan brings me hope.

I feel like I just took my brain to a five star restaurant. Wonderful!

4:31 Chapter 1: Stand up straight with your shoulders straight 16:24 Chapter 2: Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping 22:53 Chapter 3: Befriend people who want the best for you 25:45 Chapter 4: Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not the useless person you are today 37:22 Chapter 5: Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them 48:54 Chapter 6: Set your house in order before you criticise the world 58:47 Chapter 7: Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient 1:05:00 Chapter 9: Assume the person you are listening to knows something you don’t 1:11:43 Chapter 11: Do not bother children while they are skateboarding 1:17:09 Chapter 12: Pet a cat when you encounter one in the street 1:22:30 Q&A session Chapter missing: Chapter 8: Tell the truth. Or at least don’t lie Chapter 10: Be precise in your speech

I just discovered him like 5 days ago and I can’t stop listening to him . JP is such an inspiration.

I told my girlfriend he was my favorite psychologist to while we were on the subject of psychology. She stopped responding for a bit then told me she bought us tickets to see him along with a trip to where he’s talking next. What a gift.

The guy who introduces Dr. Peterson is so genuinely happy he is here.

This man... Jesus, he is a GIFT for humanity! I cannot even express how grateful I am to him for sharing his knowledge over the decades. He helped me so much!

The most important thing that should be on everyone's mind currently should be to invest in different sources of income that doesn't depend on the government. Especially with the current economic crisis around the word. This is still a good time to invest in various stocks, Gold, silver and digital currencies..

I'm functionally depressed. Been listening to Peterson almos everyday for a few months now. Just cleaned my room today. Edit: it's amazing how so many people in the comments don't see the analogy.

1. Stand up straight with your shoulders back 4:30 2. Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping 16:22 3. Make friends with people who want the best for you 22:53 4. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today 25:45 5. Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them 37:23 6.Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world 48:51 7. Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient) 58:46 8 Tell the truth, or at least don't lie 9. Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't 1:05:00 10. Be precise in your speech 11. Do not bother children when they are skateboarding 1:11:45 12. Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street 1:17:06 12 Personal Notes 1- Chapter titles come from the book. *12 Rules for Life* 2- I realize that some else has probably done this already, but I scrolled through the comments to no avail, so I helped myself 3- Be a good friend & give me a thumbs up 4- I started this last night, today I finished 5- I spent some time with my daughter today, it was good 6- work in progress 7- I plan to outlive most everyone I know 8- I only lie in bed 9- Tell me something I don't know 10- 3.1415926535 11- I give kids skateboards to leave me alone 12- My cats mostly stay outdoor & they know to avoid people, but you better be nice if you ever run into one

I am amazed at the amount of wisdom that he has been able to cram in his head,and then be able to recall it in a useful manner. He is amazing!!!!

This channel has 260k subs and this video has 17Mn views.. That is Jordan Peterson impact

Imagine being able to watch this for free.

To all the teenagers and early 20 s out there. I'm 27 and I wish I had heard this at 15. Do yourself a favor and listen to the man. Don't let your ego get in the way.

"Until the entire world is redeemed, we all fall short". Very interesting closing statement. Reminds me of the bible verse, "...for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ." Romans 3:23,24

This gives me hope. I'm not sure if this counts as a therapy session but to me it was incredible. Thank you Jordan Peterson

"He who has a why, can bear almost any how." That is a beautiful quote.

"You are devaluing what you say if you are offering it to an audience that doesn't listen" damn

"Compare yourself to the person you were yesterday." We have to protect this man.

Dr Peterson is the parent millions of us never had.

The applause was so loud that they had to mute it. Damn.

I literally found Jordan Peterson like four days ago. I'm addicted!

33 years old, No education or understanding before hand on life just lived it, feeling my way through. Listening and resonating so deeply with him with what i stumbled upon, fumbled, tumbled through life so far.. haha This man is everything to humanity

21:50 "You have a light you have to bring into the world, and if you don't bring it into the world, the world is a dimmer place, and that's a bad thing because when the world is a dimmer place it can get very very very dark." This is so profound in many ways. You caught me by surprise and put words to my 40 years of action, and got a tear as a reward. I like to think of my light as a torch to light others lights, I hope that makes sense Mr Peterson. Best of wishes to you. Thanks you for the mental health breaks :)

Dr Peterson mentions it from time to time but bears repeating. One reason so many people come out to listen to him is not because he's saying something 'new'. He's telling people things they already knew were true, but had never been properly articulated. He's reminding people of that which is fundamental to the human experience, that our societies have stopped teaching altogether.

"if people aren't listening to you, stop talking to them" g-DAMN that hit hard....so hard... like SOOO hard

Very well articulated; I wish I had more time for trial and error, but I'll be 56 in October and I need ideas and advice on what investments to make to set myself up for retirement, especially with the looming inflation and recession; my goal is to have a portfolio of at least $850k at the age of 60.

I’ve watched this talk a few times now and it never gets boring. I hope all the people that need encouragement get to see listen to him talk.

Jordan's book should be a text book in schools from first year to last year.

I didn't even need the sound, the sight of the entire audience rising in applause brings a tear to my eye, the impact this man has..... surreal to be witnessing his existence.

This Dr Peterson talk is perfect to revisit every so often, just to refresh, reevaluate, revitalize, and recharge. What a gift he is to us all via those who will listen, react, reap and so spread the rewards. God bless him!

one of the most well articulated men we’ve been blessed enough to live in the same generation as. love this man.

Jordan is like the elder around the fire 30,000 years ago for 2019

“Make the world a better place because we haven’t got anything better to do”. Thank you.

This man changed my life with Rule 1. I had low self esteem my entire life and my miserable Step Father ridiculed my posture.I would put my shoulders back but still look dorky. The key is your head.Keep your head upright and back and your shoulders will follow. I saw this video 9 months ago and internalized my poor posture.I made it a point to walk into a bar as upright as one could be.I immediately saw females look at me and so did a few men.I have made it a point to be as tall and straight as possible.The results have been tremendous. As I write this I started crying.I am 58 yrs old and feel a big sense of loss of what my life could have been if my body demonstrated my inner confidence I developed despite my upbringing. Do not brush over Rule 1...please.It can change your life.

the most eloquent fluent speaker I ever done heard!

I was obese, unemployed, without a girlfriend...a meaning, this man and his books helped me massively, now I have a job, I'm graduating at the university in foreign languages, I have an incredible person with me...my girlfriend, I've lost 50kg of bodyweight and...wow life is not that bad guys, thank you Jordan Peterson

I think Jordan Peterson is the most important person alive today.

He will be a name, who future generations reference in the same way we do Einstein and Neitzsche.

Jordan peterson is a proof for the existence of the idea of Ying and Yang. While the world goes nuts, he appeared and sets simple things strait. Thx a lott Dr. Peterson

I just had a free 1.5 hr counselling session with JP

I’m a 15 y/o girl and Jordan Peterson has changed the way I look at my life and the world. I’m sick of being a bottom lobster.

Whenever my life starts to feel out of control, I go to my bedroom and clean it. So when I learned of this advice from Jordan Peterson, I couldn’t agree more. 😅 He has a logical and simple way of troubleshooting life.

Just been introduce to Peterson by my 23 year old son. And to say the truth I admire him for discovering this in his tender age

Any day I listen to a new Peterson video... is a good damn day.

I was there and it was one of the best evenings in my life

54 Here and still learning ! All you youngsters there’s wisdom in Jordan’s words.

Most times it amazes me greatly how I moved from an average lifestyle to earning over $33k per month, Utter shock is the word. I have understood a lot in the past few years that there are lots of opportunities in the financial market. The only thing is to know where to invest.

I would like to say a very special thank you for the SJW's that have wrongly accused Dr. Peterson for bringing him to the limelight and allowing him to share his amazing, peaceful, loving, caring and helpful message to all of us.

How can ppl watch this then feel the need to leave negative feedback. This man is bursting with positivity and continually spreads the love

We need to protect this man at all costs.

Jordan has the gift of storytelling… factual storytelling… all the while wearing his emotions on his sleeve. A gifted storyteller draws you in and Jordan does this EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.

''Until the whole world is redeemed, we all fall short.'' Incredible.

This man is a miracle. Cleaning up the world, one room at a time. Brilliant.

The greatest compliment I can give Dr Peterson is that I was living on "autopilot", and he got me to think and re-engage in life!

Dr. Jordan is really amazing. Giving his knowledge to lots of people and end up crying deep inside because he feels the pain from us.

Peterson is raising the consciousness of humankind

The bloke who introduced Jordan has a magnificent voice and manner of speaking.

Hah, I see my comment still, one year ago. Here I am watching the whole thing again. This is absolutely one of my favorite lectures from Jordan. I still haven't bought the book, but I will, soon. About two years ago my mom passed away,. And as many people know is that it's a very difficult time, she was only 56 years old. I got very bad anxiety and panic attacks from all the stress and emotions thinking of "What is the meaning of life" or "I have lost my mom, the person in this whole world that regardless of what I do in life, she will always love me. What am I even supposed to do now?" types of questions, I also started to question if it even really was panic attacks, maybe my heart is just failing me, scared as you can be. However, about one and a half years ago I decided that I wanted to become something, I don't want to work at a place to do something for the rest of my life that I dislike. But before I could apply for a course (in IT) I needed to study up a few subjects in order to qualify, or have enough points to even make it to the list of applicants. I did that for six months, really working my hardest, and for my panic attacks and anxiety I started running and now also taking cold showers for the bast 2-3 months, it has helped a lot with that. After those six months I applied to the course, there was about 200 or something applicants, they only had 35 spots open, so I had to do a test that involved questions about the subjects that the course taught you. So I spent about one month or so just preparing for that test, writing down everything I could find online about it on a paper. I recorded myself all 20-30 pages on my phone and every time I went out on a walk, which I did almost every day walking 10 miles and just listening on my probably 2-3 hour recordings, and also when I worked, when I could. I did the test and I patiently waited to see if I got in or not, 2-3 weeks of nothing and let me tell you the anxiety I had my just waiting, what if I don't get in? My future, or the live I want to live would be set back hugely, I couldn't imagine having to work with what I was working for another year. If I don't get in this time, will I even get in next year? My motivation is now. Then the email came, I got in, I got super happy and felt such a big burden lift off my shoulders. Here I am now been studying to become a "Cloud and IT- Infrastructure Engineer", I have about a little more than a year left and so far I have aced everything on the course and I am so proud of myself. I cried writing the part about my mom, but there is a difference between my crying when she passed and crying now. I still cry thinking about my mother sometimes, but the difference between then and now is that now I know that I am okay and I will be okay. I love Jordan Peterson and he has so many great advice. So whatever you are going through, just know that it will be okay, you will be okay. Work on yourself.

My life is so hard. but with self help and good vibes every thing will get better.so everyone don't use drugs and don't give up. Bejoyful.❤

Right now, there are people all over the world who are just like you. They're either lonely, they're missing somebody, they're depressed, they're hurt, they're scarred from the past, they're having personal issues no one knows about, they have secrets you wouldn't believe. They wish, they dream and they hope. And right now, they are sitting here reading these words, and I'm writing this for you so you dont feel alone anymore. Always remember, don't be depressed about the past, don't worry about the future, and just focus on today. If today's not so great don't worry! Tomorrow's a new chance. If you are reading this, be sure to share this around to make others feel better. Have a nice day!

For me, the most admirable aspect of what Jordan Peterson has to offer is that he is making the pursuit of virtue cool again 🙌

Please support and pray for this man to help us save your children and their future

You can tell how excited he gets and truley inspired by how many people showed and are happy to hear him. He is definitely a blessing to us. This is someone who I look up to. I dont understand why people would be trying to cancel him.

He was choking up at the end. I have such respect for this man's passion and intellect. The world truly is a better place with him in it...

Here are my notes: *Stand Up Straight With Your Shoulders Back* • Read the great clinicians: Jung, Freud, Adler, Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow + Skinner (behaviourist). • The neuropsychology of anxiety - Jeffrey Grey (1800 papers worth of understanding! • Affective neuroscience - Yak Pengsak (rats laugh). • Lobsters and serotonin (status, emotional regulation & posture). • Competence (intelligence and confronting fears with courage) define hierarchies. • Confidence gives you the benefit of the doubt, for better emotional regulation + being taken seriously. *Treat Yourself Like You’re Someone You’re Caring For* • Jung says it’s an invitation for reciprocity - people will treat you exactly how you want them to, you need to define this (the golden rule)! • How would you like your child to be treated? • People are fragile, prone to temptation and imperfect, which often gets worse, and capable of malevolence - this is why we don’t like ourselves. • Love the sinner but hate the sin! • Taking care of yourself is a moral obligation to humanity, you have a light to bring into the world! *Make Friends With People Who Want The Best For You* • People that aim down while you aim up are toxic (this can be part of you too). • You have an ethical responsibility to surround yourself with the best people that support your needs. • Be careful about who you share good/bad news with (jealousy and habit perpetuation). • Bad people don’t think life isn’t worth it, they demonstrate to themselves there is no necessity to strive forward by putting you down. *Compare Yourself To Who You Were Yesterday, Not Who Someone Is Today* • Know Dostoevsky novels (crime and punishment - murderer gets away with it [see don’t let you children…]). • Pareto distribution - height, weight and intelligence are normally distributed. • Creative products are distributed in a Pareto distribution. • If you run a company, 80% of the employees do 20% of the work, 20% of customers are responsible for 80% of calls and sales. • In a given domain, the square root of a particular group of people do half the amount of work. • Matthew principle: To those who have everything, more will be given. From those who have nothing, everything will be taken away. • Consider this in terms of opportunity. • There is always going to be someone around who is better than you. • Jung thought the Book of Revelation was a pendant to the Bible, because the Christ in Gospels was too merciful. An ideal is always a judge. Revelation has Christ coming back as a judge. • You need an ideal because you have nothing to aim at, but an ideal is a judge and you will always fall short of the ideal. • Set a high aim, then break the goal down into parts that are challenging enough to push yourself past where you are, but not crushingly distant (reasonable probability of success). • At 30, the idiosyncrasies of your life make comparison futile as accomplishments are tailored by factors. • Make today some tiny increment better than yesterday. • Goals need to be laid out to justify life’s suffering. • Nietzsche says, “he who has a why can bear almost any how”. *Do Not Let Your Children Do Anything That Makes You Dislike Them* • Freudian nightmare: Circle where people are squeezing each other’s necks hard enough to strangle them in twenty years. • Carl Jung: The shadow (dark side of humanity) has roots reaching all the way to hell. • Literal & metaphysical application - the very worst and then more proximal kinds of hell. • If you understand your dark side, you will see in yourself a reflection of the darkest potential. People don’t want to see this so they don’t, but this confrontation is an inevitable barrier to enlightenment. • Joseph Campbell: “Follow your bliss” • Jung: “Pursue what’s meaningful and you’ll encounter that which you least want to encounter”. • God of Horus (Egypt) was a God, but lost an eye in the battle when encountering evil. The Egyptian eye is that lost to Seth, the precursor to Satan. • Nietzsche punishment: don’t punish people when they do something wrong, this is a moral relief to them. Wait until they do something good, then hurt them. • When people do something you wish to be replicated, reward them! • Consult your irritability to prevent conflict and shape the times when others hurt. • Children must be socially desirable by four, we develop by playing! Adults like developed kids. *Set Your House In Order Before Your Criticise The World* • Carl Panzram - Panzram (autobiography) - “Hurry up you bastard, I could kill ten men in the time if takes you to hang me”. • Columbine kids diaries - why did the kids shoot up the school? • The above were judges of being as motivated by resentment. • You must admit to resentment, its fantasies and the way out. • A resentful person wants others to change are not to be trusted. • TS Eliot: The cocktail party - “I hope that there’s something wrong with me”. • If I don’t like life, is my judgement to be trusted if I haven’t done everything I possibly can to set life right? • The Gulag Archipelago - Solzhenitsyn. One man that stopped lying could spread the dissolution of the Soviet Empire. • GO over your life with a fine-tooth comb and determine when you took the wrong path when not shieled by ignorance. Take responsibility for where you are, what increased the probability that you came here and what would happen if set everything right in the present. • Try not doing the things you shouldn’t do, not saying the things you know aren’t true (Mandela agrees). Do What Is Meaningful, Not What Is Expedient • The Messiah takes the world’s sins upon Himself - associated with Jung’s shadow. • The terror that comes in the night

Absolutely in his element it's fantastic to see him thrive and I'm so glad he's back.

I am blown away by this sentence: "If I don't like life, is my judgment to be trusted if I haven't done everything I possibly can to set life right?" This has inspired me to keep on trying.

This is what happens when a person dedicates himself to being a better human being. Wonderful man. And we are blessed by his presence among us.

I've never in my life bought a book. I've never had the interest. My book arrives in 3 days and I cannot wait to read it.

I really sincerely admire this man. I am in my room, listening to the whole lecture with full attention and at the end, I could not stop clapping for him. I like him for his intelligence, communication skills and much more which I do not want to write about right now.

I was listening to Bill Mahrs podcast and Jordan Peterson was the guest. I looked him up & what I read was “WOW” which led me to his web page & eventually to here. There are no words to describe how moved I am to discover this unique individual who so unselfishly devotes himself to humankind. Speaking so that every person listening would be able to comprehend no matter their background, education, age or experience. I have moved him up into my #1 mentor spot because, above all else, I would like to experience the emotions he expresses out of pure love for every last person here on earth. I am eternally & forever grateful Professor Peterson for you and the example you are showing to all of the world with your unbelievable scope of compassion and your unselfish desire to share your knowledge so that it reaches & can be understood by all and any lucky enough to find you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! You have given me back some hope for the future and a reason to strive to follow your example.❤

This man is a gift to humanity

Jordan seems to be much happier of late. It's nice to see him smile.

Is this what genius looks like? Balancing theories, concepts, history, and practice? Into a cohesive whole? I call that genius.

This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my UKposts channel 5 months ago about self development. Now I have 305 subs and almost > 100 hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessons that I couldn’t have learned without getting started in the 1st place.

"A good person is someone who's trying to get better"! How I'd love to tattoo that into my subconscious!

This man, single handedly, could CHANGE THE WORLD for the better! His wisdom, resolve, intellect, and care for the world, specially the western culture is the only strong force we have against the tyrannical post-modernist, destructive forces that have infected ALL of our academics, institutions and governments! Bless you Mr. Peterson! Keep up the good fight and WE WILL SUPPORT YOU! Already pre-ordered the book!

18 million people took an hour and a half out of their day to listen to Jordan Peterson I have hope for the future God bless

If I had one word to describe Jordan Peterson it would be: INSPIRATIONAL. Because he has inspired me. And I’m a Millennial.

"Resentful people who wanna change the world are not to be trusted". That comment is huge.

Listen to this talk with an open heart. I grew up in communist Hungary, where my father was imprisoned and almost beaten to death because he spoke his mind. We were fighting against oppression, torture. and ideological enslavement. In 1956, the whole world was watching as we were fighting the invading Russian army with a few guns and Molotov cocktails. Noone helped. I guess we didn't have enough oil. Pay close attention to the lessons in this talk and do your share to make sure that history doesn't repeat itself.

One of the most engaging speakers of our time.

Wish Dr Peterson had been around when I was 16-19 years old.

Everyone talking about the presentation, but I'm just here to show my appreciation for the editor who muted the volume during the applause to save my ears. Thank you

"Resentful people who want to change the world should not be trusted" thank you Jordan for verbalising such important piece of wisdom.

The quote at 1:16 really hit me. It made me realize I have been hiding from the negative in the world and not upholding my responsibility to add my soul/light/influence to the fabric of our society. " The failure to participate fully in being, leaves a hole that's precisely the size of their soul in the cultural landscape. its no joke, we need all the light we can bear on the situation."

And "Thats" exactly why i fkn love this guy.

Dr Peterson starred into the abyss so we didn’t have too. You can sense the deep emotional experience when he talks about what his daughter had to overcome.

Take note youtubers: you can have a powerful video full of life altering dialog WITHOUT the dramatic "this is what inspiration sounds like" music in the background

I love this speaker, he presents ideas in a very useful way. One can tell that he really cares about his students, (who are all of us.) He has a subtle humour.

I am moved. I sat through this whole thing in awe. Never heard of him before I am so glad I found this. He says what we all need to hear, over and over again. A man to look up to, to trust. Teaching good teaching what our children need to be taught. I'm going to start sharing this over and over. We all should. He is amazing. I had to rewind quite a bit because it was hard fir me ti grasp at times I mean I got it but took me a couple tries some times. I'm inspired to do better to help to be self conscious all of it. I will be listening to this again. Thank you so much for this.