#104 overallHidden gem
Personality and its Transformations (Jordan Peterson)
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4 recommenders · 4 threads · recommended in 3 years, 2016–2023 · score 4.3
A University of Toronto psychology course taught by Jordan Peterson, delivered as a YouTube lecture series, covering personality theory alongside mythology, evolutionary biology, neurology, and the works of thinkers such as Jung, Freud, Piaget, Skinner, Dostoevsky and Nietzsche. It is tied to the question of how to act in one's life.
Commenters call it a densely packed, truly amazing synthesis of psychology, mythology and philosophy, and one says it was transformative for them.
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Jordan Peterson’s personality and its transformations. A lecture he taught at the University of Toronto, highly recommended for a densely packed lectures on wisdom.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22J3VaeABQBlN8DUor7SKWCw...
A related story featured on HN a couple of days ago [1]. I'll echo JonnieCache and recommend Jordan Peterson's lectures [2]. If you are concerned about investing the time in an entire lecture, check out the video "Dragons, Divine Parents, Heroes and Adversaries: A complete cosmology of being" [3]; it gives a high level overview of the content contained within his lectures. I believe 'Personality and its Transformations' (2014 series) followed by 'Maps of Meaning' (2015) to be the best approach, though I haven't yet had a chance to listen to the 2016 releases.
Jordan has uncanny ability to piece together observations on human behavior with science and mythology; expounding humanity's nuances, ticks and everyday common behavior through the lens of ancient mythology, evolution and ideas and theories by notable psychologists and philosophers.
Keep an open mind while listening, but also be prepared to think critically about many of his assumptions and assertions as Jordan takes a number of 'educated' leaps (and demands you follow) in regards to published studies and what they may infer, but the leaps are never illogical - just yet to be soundly proven.
Overall, listening to these lectures truly was a transformative experience for myself.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10941363 [2] https://www.youtube.com/user/JordanPetersonVideos [3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqONu6wDYaE
edit: linked this story and not the previous one.
If this is interesting to you, then check out this frankly astonishing series of lectures from Jordan Peterson at the university of toronto. It's a psychology 40something course, and it covers the bible, ancient egypt, mesopotamia, jung, freud, piaget, skinner, dostoevsky, nietzsche, hitler, lots of evolutionary biology, lots of neurology, etc. etc. All tied up with the question of how to act in ones life. It's a truly amazing synthesis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tQOlQRp3gQ&list=PL22J3VaeAB...
That's the playlist for last year's course. The 2016 course has just started, with a better camera this time. The first lecture is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjnvtRgpg6g
Trial and error as a programmer dealing with depression and anxiety accounts for a lot, but for resources I'd point you to Robert Sapolsky's lectures on Behavioral Biology (here: https://youtu.be/NNnIGh9g6fA). Sapolsky's lectures are great for getting a Biology perspective to how human's operate. Jordan Peterson's has lectures on Personality (here: https://youtu.be/kYYJlNbV1OM) which are also great and echo similar ideas from a Psychology perspective.