I'll procrastinate later.

Sweet jesus that last line... "[...]the world is made of information, and if you encounter it, and tangle with it, then it informs you, and then you become informed, and then you are _in formation_ , and then you are *ready* ."

I'm a girl from a small town in Africa and I really don't know how this man ended up on my youtube, but so thankful he did! I have no idea how I am even able to understand this great intellectual when he speaks as I am not even an academic. Though some of his teachings surpass my understanding, they still resonates so deeply with me! I will continue to listen and learn. Thank you Dr Peterson. Just know that your work reaches further than you can imagine. You are empowering even the displaced and 'uneducated'. Your channel and talks are my university.

*I am eternally grateful I stumbled upon Jordan Peterson’s lectures.*

Your writing guide helped me improve my writing more than any guide I’ve ever received in all my years of school and university.

Started drawing 3 months ago after watching his lectures. Never drawn before and I'm having so much fun improving and growing. Had to wrestle with a couple of lobsters along the way but my serotonin levels are looking good and my room's never been cleaner. #TakeAim

This man's words are made of gold. To a fool they are no different than rocks, heavy and cold. To the astute observer they are the beginnings of an empire.

I must credit Dr Peterson. He is tirelessly working to change people’s lives. He is not pushing an agenda so much as he is inviting people to survive well in the challenges of life. Bravo.

Dear JP. Even at the age of 48, you have reinvigorated my enthusiasm for life, goals and improvement. My room was more of a mess than I'd thought, but after just a few month's of watching your videos, I'm finally climbing out of a dark hole. I never thought anyone could understand my position and yet, without even meeting or conversation, your compassion and encouragement has helped me beyond comprehension. I can't thank you enough but I know what I do differently from here on, how I will overcome all current/future difficulties and how I improve as many things around me as possible is all the thanks you ever hope to see. Merry Christmas to you and your family. God bless. And, thank you.

I am just out of a colossal breakup than uncovered my 20 year porn addiction. It has been the worst and best thing to ever happen to me. This simple video gives me the determination I need to keep going through the hurt and past the shame. Thank you.

I think he is the greatest thinker of our time.

4 years ago, I did something without knowing what I was doing. I created my first educational course on Udemy. As a stupid teen. The course was REALLY bad. But I did it. Because I didn't know better. Had I known better at that time, and been more knowledgeable, I may not have created the course. Because then I would have known that I would create a bad course. So I wouldn't have done it. If I had just thought about it, I wouldn't have done it, and I would have NOTHING by now. But I did it, I did badly but I did. And now it's my profession, and I create good courses now. So, just DO what you want to do. Do badly. But do it.

Lowering our expectations for ourselves to get started makes the ball get rolling a lot easier.

Peterson may be already the best intellectual of the 21st century.

1:53 "The willingness to be a fool is the precursor to transformation." I had no idea who this man was until I saw him on Joe Rogan's podcast and here he is dropping gold like this almost as an afterthought. Definitely going to watch, listen and read more of Mr. Peterson's work.

Guilty! I've been procastinating the self authoring for 5 months now on the "need a chunk of time" excuse. Thanks for the kick in the ass! .........dad.

Can't wait for the next Biblical lectures

Great, enlightened mind In our world. Thank you for being in our life.

Well Done. I am so ecstatic that we have someone in our modern age speaking of myth and archetypes. Bravo Sir. Been a Fan for many Years.

1 Down vote. Dammit Cathy Newman, you've got to get over it! XD

I was trying to explain to my mom how listening to this guy talk I can basically feel my brain expanding

This short video has been very helpful for me, so thank you. Perfectionists have difficulty living up to their idealised standards, and an acceptance of doing something wrong in the beginning is a key step for tapping into your sense of purpose and overcoming inhibitions to action. This is something I struggle with and I think taking your advice on board will have an immensely strong impact on my life.

Dr. Peterson, I cannot express with enough gratitude my respect for you. Thank you for all that you do for the world.

"...you become informed, then you are in formation, and then you're ready" Holy hell did Jordan just pull some preacher wordplay? That's awesome

Jordan, don’t lose heart in this dark world. You are helping many find light, and when you change people’s lives in so profound a way, they are very slow to abandon you, even if you slip up in a random interview. Keep it up, and a Happy New Year to you!

"There is no such thing as stasis."

Thank you for the guiding wisdom Prof. Peterson! I can truthfully say that your videos have only a positive influence in the state of my life.

19 years old, from Philippines and with his lectures and with the help of his book 12 rules I finally gained a lot of wide range of perspective. He is, truly a game changer.

"If you never start anything new, you'll never develop." Simple, yet profound.

You are an inspiration to everyone Jordan - that brought quite a few tears to my eyes. Thank you. :)

just keep doing what you're doing Jordan - you're doing an amazing job!

Thank you Dr Peterson, I needed this to be reminded !

Your videos have helped me a lot recently, even though I don’t fully agree with you, every time I think about slacking off, your voice comes in my head and I “negotiate with myself.” I hope more people watch your videos. ❤️

I loved the entire lecture series this clip is pulled from, the entire over thirty hours of it!

Thank you, Mr. Peterson. Listening to your lectures has been a blessing.

Yes! Make a start! Don't let "perfection" stifle a start.

One of my favorite moments of these lectures! Can’t wait till the new ones come out!

Thank you for all the work you do and the service you are to this world. Your work has changed my world.

It's impossible to hear enough of this great voice! His message strikes deep to the soul of our modern society!

Thank You JP!

The Art of presentation. Our unspoken/doubtful “little voices” CHALLENGED AND CONQUERED !!! 🖤❤️🖤

Simple yet sound advice. Always informative and enjoyable.

This is absolutely accurate. I've learned this in an art class, just start drawing, something will come to you, just start writing (for a research paper) even if it's cruddy, in doing so, you get the crud part out of the way as you revise and you replace it with something better, it always works. This is how I approach most things now, that I want to do. Just start. Action has to override thinking in the beginning.

There my friend, is pure passion....

Keep up the good fight!!! Don't stop!! I believe in everything you are doing !!

Jordan, You're one of the greatest intellectual of our times. We are lucky to have you.

This is a marvelous lecture indeed. Jordan Peterson always makes me inspired.

That was the most inspiring thing I've ever heard! He's amazing!!!

I just wanted to say thank you for this encouraging and motivating speech. This has been my philosophy for some years but you have put what I have been doing intuitively into words and illustrated so eloquently that it all makes sense at last.

Dr. Peterson gives absolutely liberating advice in suggesting writing a bad thesis. You can do that! About 20 or more years ago, the singer songwriter Harry Chapin appeared in an intimate Soundstage performance in the PBS studios in Chicago. During the break he hung out and chatted with the audience. Someone asked, "Harry, how did you learn to write such great songs?" He answered that he wasn't sure but he knew for certain that the first step was to write 100 bad songs. My eyes opened wide at that news. I thought, "I can do that!". i am more than halfway through that assignment. (And somehow still married.) i am old now and may never complete it, but what joy I have had in trying. I never would have started if I had waited until i could write a "good" song. Go for it! And in your spare time, watch all of JP's lectures.

You are a true educator for young and struggling person. Thanks for educating and teaching us to choose a right path and for our own good. You are a nice human being and god bless you.

This may be one of the most profound KZfaq videos I've watched in recent memory. Thank you for sharing Sir. Regards, Benjamin K.

He says a lot of meaning and important things for life. Great man, Jordan Peterson. GOD Bless you and your family!

So good. ...21 years old. Absolutely needed this

Thank you for your efforts we are listening.

This is exactly what I needed to hear today. Thank you.

I agree with the girl from Africa - really nicely put. I'm a 49 year old Builder from West London. The messages that JP puts across, to me, are transcending. They make sense to me on so many levels, my work, my wife, my children, my bedroom (haha), my mother, my late father, my up bringing, theology, the stories and messages embedded in world faiths and history of the western world, and above all.....ME ! Professor Peterson, I thank you, and keep up the great work, you definitely carry the load to get your messages out there - utterly inspirational....!

Dr. Peterson, I am very happy you exist. Thank you for your work and integrity. A friend once told me that love is the affirmation of the goodness of someone's existence. I love you, Jordan. You've done good in my life. There is more light since you've helped point me in the right direction. Thank you. God's love

thank you professor for being as truthful and as hardworking as you are. My counsciousness thanks you. you have shaken the foundations of my mind that was turning bitter and dreadful... paranoid... and with enourmous self pitty. Thank you for giving me the courage to climb of this hole, where I buried my self in. Ive been steadily changing towards a brighter path in my life since I discovered you, and I can't thank you enough. Truly you are a loving perosnality. Don't let criticism get to you my friend, stay as calm as you have always been and using logical and rational thinking as your weapon, because it is very effective. Please also consider adressing one of the problems that benefited this procrastination/depressive/anxious state, that I haven't heard you adressing. Which is my parents have always done everything for me when I was young from cooking me dinner to as simple as making my bed and cleaning my room, and now I'm in a foreign country taking care of my own life, and I'm very messy lazy and my attention span is that of a fish(thats mainly due to the ammount of time I spent on the computer), and changing my habbits has been a very difficult journey, I cant even get my self to study properly, because that implicates effort. None the less, a big hug from Me. Stay Humble.

Sir, sincerely thank you for your efforts! Amazing stuff!!

There's a saying that goes like this. "The only ones that make no mistakes are those who don't work"

I bought the future authoring suite 2 years ago and haven’t started at all. I still have the log in it’s all ready to do but I haven’t for exactly the reasons he has laid out. More than anything I am scared of holding myself accountable and failing. Without a goal I am never failing. This is by far one the best clips I have seen of JPB. This video is extremely useful and letting me know that I should start and just do it badly and therefore be moving forward. I just had the realization that writing this comment was also a form of procrastination and delaying myself from doing the future authoring.

Such an inspiring 7 minutes. JP is a humble genius!

This video coupled with the future authoring program is deserving of a national or international award. Impactful, empowering and informative.

Admirable advice!

Thank you for the work you do

Merry Christmas to Dr. Jordan Peterson and family!

Just the exact message I need to start this year.

I love this - so true and helpful. Thanks Dr P 😊

Well, that struck a nerve. Thank you, Professor.

There is no one I would rather listen to on You Tube than Dr. Peterson. He is outstanding in so many ways. Anxious to learn about his new video College studies he will make in the future.

Always an wonderful proffesor thank you so much from S.Korea

Dr. Peterson, I am a big fan. After listening to your lectures and countless interviews, I believe that there is a component to satisfaction that is overlooked. Toil, good old fashioned labor. As a young man, I scrubbed pots and pans at a job that anyone could with no experience as long as they committed to working hard. It gave me the opportunity to earn respect and to respect the labor of others. It provided an excellent foundation for an aimless 15 year old boy. 30 years later, I am an administrator on an array of some of the most powerful computers in the world. In my spare time I exercise those skills that I learned so many years ago. I have what I can only describe as a not for profit catering business. I don't what I would do if I didn't have something to put my back into.

I needed to stumble across this video at this exact time, thanks doctor Peterson,

You can't imagine how much I love you, teacher. thank you for saving my life.

Such a powerful message.

We're lucky to have this guy, thank you for sharing your wisdom and reminding us of our ability as men.

I'm actually in a really lazy spot rn and needed something to wake me up and start making my life meainingful. This was extremely moving.

Simplemente gracias!

Thank you Doctor Peterson

keep it up, helps us all just seeing how involved you are and also youre love of just speaking to us all...

You are just brilliant ..Dr Peterson... You make me proud to be a Canadian ..We need you as our Prime Mister ....

Jordan, this is tremendously powerful for me. I have no idea what I am doing & I am attempting to learn a new skill of real estate photography compositional editing. Being honest with myself, I have been procrasting from doing it because I am scared to try it and fail but hearing your encouraging words is genuinely all I needed to hear to begin my challenging work. "As I stumble forward I will illuminate and inform myself. And perhaps thats partly because the world is made of information, and If I encounter with it & entangle with it, then it will inform me and I become informed. Thus I am in-form-ation and then I am ready" THANK YOU

This was the thinking I had when I took my first after school art class at the age of 8. I remember thinking oh God I'm the worst artist ever... but I have to be good at something. I'm pretty sure I can learn this so I'll just do it until I'm good. Flashforward some 8 years of art class later I remembered what I thought and looked at the Sargent reproduction oil painting in front of me I had just finished and thought, holy shit I did it. Later on I ended up an art teacher for a short while, teaching many kids who thought they couldn't draw. Full circle. Keep going, do it badly because it can get better with will.

The truth of this just crippled me emotionally man. Such profound truths in every sentence.

Love this so much

I'm listening to this at 3am. Best advice I have ever heard. Tk u! I wish someone had told me this years ago.

This is insanely helpful.

One of the best points I’ve ever heard from Jordan Peterson. I saw him in Orlando and he said the same thing to a question about what a young man in his twenties should do with his life. Peterson simply said, “Something. . .” and explained this logic. It’s powerfully true.

Thought-provoking and worth the time to know his thoughts more..

Needed this for my honors thesis, thanks Jordan.

I feel so much respect for this man

Thank you for what you do JP, I hope that some day I can meet you in person and shake your hand and thank you properly in person. You might not even realize the impact you have because it goes beyond viewer statistics. The kind of people who listen to what you say are the kind of people who really care about the direction their life goes, and those are people who end up changing the course of history. Even they need guidance and wisdom along the way.

So true...get started, get moving, and the scenery shall evolve as you go and direction will get clearer, and more options will arise...but by all means get moving! Thank you so much for all that you are sharing with your fellow humans... :-)

Always grateful for my husband who introduced you to me. Couldn't have had better days after starting watching your videos,Doctor! We are newly married & we have learned together & we keep rejuvenating every day.

God, how uncanny, could not be more timely! Now that I finished my studies, I have ZERO excuses. I completed a lot of what I put aside for when I finish my studies. Next, I am continuing my Self-Authoring either tonight or first thing tomorrow. I am watching this again the second my mind plays tricks on me. Thank you for the friendly reminder!

I’m so lucky to grow up in a time where I can watch and learn from Jordan Peterson online and for free ❤️

I wish u and your family a marry christmas and lot of power for the next year(s). You are kind of a father for me... thank u Mr. Peterson

His advice is so universally applicable. He's not talking about anything specific other than that which every human being faces by virtue of being alive, conscious, and moving through an ever changing world.

If you are not moving forward, you are actually moving backward.. great advice sir 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼