Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Jordan Peterson: How To Become The Person You’ve Always Wanted To Be | E113" video.

  1. Self-conscious awareness makes "acting" REAL! The essential acting skill is instantaneous self-control--"thinking" faster than you "feel". Most people don't "act" well...they imitate, instead, which misses the whole point! Emotional self-control is the primary self-actualization pathway.
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  2. You can "sit yourself down and ask serious questions of yourself", that's true enough, but the process is not the straightforward simplicity the good doctor suggests! If you don't know yourself intimately enough, you'll take yourself "for a ride"! The emotional self likes to maintain an independent character--it will hide from control efforts! It will fake you out as only it can! Your imagination ALWAYS SHOWS you the truth, in sequences of "flashes" that constitute your own personal intra-personal language. Otherwise, you chase the fake, and the emotional character remains free of discipline...like the wild stallion, whose best destiny is to be "broken", to become a dedicated and faithful servant.
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  3. Emotional detachment is a learnable skill, and extremely useful in everyday life. Without it, life's vicissitudes amount to perpetual distraction and continuous psychic discomfort.
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