Jordan is brilliant. I find his lectures so fascinating!

I've missed out on a lot of things in my long life for one reason or another, but not taking one of Dr. PETERSONS classes/courses has be near the top of the list.

Who are the predators that we're trying to hide from by staying in the center of the herd though?

Such a gifted professor. These students are lucky.

I thought the title said the Zelda story lol

There'S not a zebra, there's zibrae.

I think is one of the most brilliant lectures I've heard from Jordan Peterson. This reminds me of the war that happened in my country.

"...the answer is, YOU DON'T KNOW!"

The relevance of this video in today's political arena is 🤯....

While I don't agree with his theory (leaders love a larger stage to stand out), but loved the way he presented the story. I didn't want the lecture to end :D

Jordan is brilliant, how come I saw this video only now hmmmm. I think, there is a zebra & a lion in everyone. Depending on the situations around, role play changes, so the same victim today might have been hunting in a pride for a Zebra. So position of power decides the game.

Brilhante.

The story is odd, it forgets one thing. We are not Zebras. We are Men. A totally different beast. Man doesn’t travel in herds and we don’t take pleasure in being in masses. The idea that staying in the middle is best is slightly implied in this story. But thats not whats best according to Peterson. My interpretation of whats best according to him is to get yourself together and then conquer the unknown. Its to fulfill the human archetypes that have kept us alive for millennia and become a Hero to discover new ones. To push the human race forward through conquest of the unknown. We couldn’t do that hiding in the middle of the pack. We’re not Zebra’s, and although we may fear the Lion we don’t breed individuals who can best hide amongst the pack. We breed individuals who have to guts to challenge the Lion itself so we can transcend the threat and quell the pangings of our self-consciousness. Then we apply the general or “meta”, as Peterson would call it, techniques of conquering chaos to the next threat which always seems to loom around. Its always there because our blessing to be aware of our inescapable mortality is too. A Zebra could never. We are not Zebra we are Men. Its not about protecting yourself in pack from the unknown, its about taking on the unknown itself and transcending it nonetheless.

It took me a while to understand this theory I think I got it now, thank you.

Slap a red dot on my arse and send in the lions! 🦅

I wanna note about the first 30 seconds: Zebras ARE camouflaged. lions and other predators can only see very little colors, so the yellow grass and the black and white is actually not that distinct for them. the stripes imitate the shape of grass, too. In nature, only really bright colors like red and blue are "not camouflaged". Also the fact that there are zebras shows that evolution deemed their method good enough.

It was my understanding, no two zebra's stripes were the same, a fingerprint, if you will.

That reminds me when first Covid hit, the very first thing to run out of gorcery stores was the Toilet Paper, its like if i saw people buying mass amount of toilet paper i dont wanna be the only guy who didnt buy and didnt have papers to wipe my ass with

Not sure what the lesson is here

i like the outro music. what is it?

Ghandi, JFK, Lincoln, MLK, and John Lennon, to name a few.

There are no doubt many, too many, who can relate to the Zebra Story. Not everyone's prime motivation is cowardliness however. Cases in point would be proper Fire, Police and Military personnel. (Guess it's a sign of the times that something this basic even needs to be pointed out.)

100% true.

🧡

Eighty percent of murder victims are murdered by somebody they knew, so staying in the center of the herd might be what kills you.

It kills me that he quotes Robert Sapolsky so frequently but never attributes anything to him. Yet he quotes other thinkers and gives them credit. Now this isn’t Sapolsky’s thesis/research findings; but it’s his book Peterson read this in. I believe it is in why zebras don’t het ulcers (ironically). It’s the only example I am aware of where Dr. Peterson does not attribute his source. His daughter quotes Sapolsky’s work, Behave: the biology of us at our best and worst, which discusses the work of other scientists regarding prairie voles. But again, never cites her source. That shit kills me.

Who the h are the lions? Simba? Do you want to be a lion? I know... but I don't know.

Everyone knows that zebras are red with black and white stripes.

This man is a damn genius

👂👌🏻

Argument for mediocrity

Like penguins?

Yes, to be in the middle of the herd, i want

Z bruh

Moral of the story is when you go out to protest dress like a zebra🦓

It is a good story but with flaws. Yes there are ppl that pick out the weak to attack. Think about high school bullies. Who do they select to attack. Narcists, same thing. And ppl in places of power with insecurity issues. They pick those that they feel threatened by. Yes being a chameleon and fitting in does make you less likely to be noticed by them. But It all falls down in the fact that we aren't all predators looking to take someone down. Some ppl notice someone that is different and work to help them achieve. Like the lady in The story "Blindside" with Sandra Bullock. And teachers do it every day befriending the loner children and spurring them on to do their best. One teacher who had taught for 18 years had an incredible impact on his students. When he died his widow received numerous emails on how he had changed their lives and that they attribute their success in life to his never giving up on them and instilling the attitude of believing in themselves.

Kewl

JP depicts a binary ecology; lions and zebras. The movie "American Sniper" proposes three kinds of animal (as portraying three kinds of people): Sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs. The sheepdogs are canines, like wolves, but protect the sheep. Sheep do not make this distinction and see only other sheep and wolves. Politically this is why Democrats cannot distinguish between a gun-toting predator from a gun-toting protector. It is also why the "sheep" are constantly in motion, competing to be in the safe center of the herd. In the example of Woke, they look for the smallest sign of unwoke; as for example, you put shoe polish on your face 30 years ago at Halloween. That kind gets pushed out from the safe center. There is no *definition* that a person can obey to be safe; the very parameters of what decides who is in the safe center changes frequently. That kind is motivated by FEAR. It is a powerful motivator. You might fail to find love or happiness, but you'd better not fail to see the lion in the grass.

The vast majority of what he said then was pointless

Shame he is advocating for group identity and not individual character. Staying in the crowd and never putting yourself to the hazard will ensure the human's enslavement i.e., JP own words "You may be visible, but you may also be dead!" Anyone else want to stay in the group?! Be careful with this Psychologist, his intent is not benevolent.

i just dont think its good story this time