"You Should Be A Monster" | Jordan Peterson Motivation
Summary
TLDRThe video script delves into the concept of spiritual development through the integration of one's 'shadow' or darker tendencies, rather than rejecting them. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing and controlling these aspects to develop self-respect and the capacity for strength without succumbing to cruelty. The speaker argues that being 'dangerous' in a controlled manner is essential for personal empowerment and societal competence, drawing parallels with mythological heroes and anti-heroes. The script also touches on the balance between rights and responsibilities, suggesting that embracing one's inner 'monster' can lead to a more enlightened and peaceful existence.
Takeaways
- 🧘 Spiritual development involves recognizing and integrating one's 'satanic' or shadow tendencies rather than rejecting them outright.
- 🤼♂️ People who have integrated their shadow side tend to be more self-respecting and less naive compared to those who haven't.
- 🔪 The capacity to be dangerous, yet choosing not to act on it, is a sign of strength and self-control, akin to a martial artist's discipline.
- 🐰 Being harmless is not the same as being virtuous; it can indicate a lack of power or agency, similar to a defenseless rabbit.
- 🦸♂️ Heroes in mythology often embody a controlled form of 'monster', capable of breaking rules for higher purposes, as seen in characters like Harry Potter and Batman.
- 🤝 The balance of rights and responsibilities is crucial for personal growth and societal harmony; focusing solely on rights neglects the importance of responsibilities.
- 🛡️ Developing competence and the potential for strength is essential for self-respect and the ability to face life's challenges effectively.
- 🗡️ The New Testament's phrase 'the meek shall inherit the Earth' may be better understood as those who are capable but choose peace and restraint.
- 💪 Encouraging young people to be harmless can lead to weakness and inability to handle life's adversities, whereas embracing one's potential for strength can foster resilience.
- 👶 Treating adults as if they were infants can be detrimental; it's important for young men and women to develop their competence and power.
- 🦄 The journey to self-respect and character strength often involves embracing and controlling one's darker aspects, not just pursuing happiness or pleasure.
Q & A
What does the speaker suggest is a part of spiritual development?
-The speaker suggests that recognizing and integrating one's 'satanic tendencies' or darker aspects is part of spiritual development, rather than casting them away.
How does the speaker describe the difference between people who have integrated their shadow and those who haven't?
-People who haven't integrated their shadow are described as naive and often resentful, as they are more likely to be taken advantage of. In contrast, those who have integrated their shadow are portrayed as potentially dangerous but not necessarily harmful, exuding an implicit potential for havoc.
What is the speaker's view on the relationship between being harmless and being virtuous?
-The speaker argues that being harmless does not equate to being virtuous. Instead, it likens being harmless to the nature of a rabbit, which is merely unable to cause harm rather than being virtuous.
How does the speaker relate the concept of being a 'monster' to virtue?
-The speaker suggests that if you are a 'monster' but do not act monstrously, you can be virtuous. It implies that having the capacity for harm but choosing not to use it is a higher form of virtue.
What role does the speaker attribute to the capacity for cruelty in self-respect?
-The speaker posits that having the capacity for cruelty but choosing not to be cruel is better than being incapable of cruelty. It suggests that this capacity, when controlled, contributes to self-respect and the ability to demand respect from others.
How does the speaker connect the idea of being dangerous with the ability to be peaceful?
-The speaker implies that being dangerous but choosing to be peaceful is a more effective guarantee of peace than being harmless. It suggests that the strength developed from embracing one's 'monstrousness' can deter conflict.
What does the speaker suggest is the common mythological notion about heroes?
-The speaker suggests that a common mythological notion is that heroes must be 'monsters' but controlled ones, capable of great deeds but choosing to use their power for good.
What is the speaker's perspective on the importance of responsibility compared to rights?
-The speaker believes that responsibility is just as important as rights, and that focusing solely on rights without considering responsibilities has left a void in people's lives.
How does the speaker interpret the New Testament statement 'the meek shall inherit the Earth'?
-The speaker interprets 'the meek shall inherit the Earth' as referring to those who are powerful and formidable but choose to be peaceful, rather than those who are simply naive and weak.
What does the speaker argue is necessary for personal growth and self-respect?
-The speaker argues that recognizing and integrating one's darker aspects, or 'growing teeth,' is necessary for personal growth and self-respect, as it allows individuals to understand their capacity for harm and choose not to act on it.
Why does the speaker believe that understanding one's own 'shadow' is important for societal understanding?
-The speaker believes that understanding one's own 'shadow' is crucial for recognizing the potential for evil in oneself and others, which is necessary for preventing atrocities and promoting societal understanding and control.
Outlines
🔮 Embracing the Shadow for Spiritual Growth
The first paragraph discusses the concept of spiritual development through the recognition and integration of one's 'satanic tendencies,' or darker aspects. It emphasizes the importance of not merely casting these traits away but transmuting them into something positive. The speaker contrasts the naivety and resentment of those who have not integrated their shadow with the self-respect and implicit power of those who have. The narrative uses examples from Harry Potter and Batman to illustrate characters who, despite their flaws, act virtuously because they have the capacity for evil but choose not to use it. The paragraph concludes with a critique of a society that focuses solely on rights without responsibilities, suggesting that true strength and virtue come from embracing one's potential for harm and then choosing to act peacefully and responsibly.
🦄 The Virtue of Being 'Dangerous'
The second paragraph expands on the idea that true strength and self-respect come from acknowledging one's capacity for harm and then controlling it. It argues against the societal push towards harmlessness, asserting that being harmless is not virtuous but rather a sign of weakness. The speaker suggests that the ability to be cruel, when paired with the choice not to be, is a higher moral state. The paragraph delves into the psychological appeal of anti-heroes and villains, suggesting that people are drawn to these figures because they represent the unacknowledged 'monster' within. The speaker also touches on the importance of self-respect, the role of martial arts in teaching peacefulness alongside the ability to fight when necessary, and the philosophical underpinnings of being 'dangerous but controlled.' The paragraph concludes with a discussion of the importance of recognizing one's potential for evil as a means of understanding and preventing atrocities, as well as the value of self-awareness in parenting and discipline.
🗡 The Consequences of Suppressed 'Monstrousness'
The third paragraph delves into the potential repercussions of not acknowledging and integrating one's darker side. It discusses the idea that if individuals do not respect themselves as capable of causing harm, they may inadvertently inflict long-term psychological damage on children through subtle forms of abuse. The speaker suggests that understanding oneself as a 'monster' can actually lead to better self-treatment and more effective parenting, as it prompts individuals to avoid exposing children to their darker impulses. The paragraph ends with a reference to Freudian psychoanalysis, positing that recognizing and integrating one's darker side is essential for personal safety and the safety of others.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Satanic tendencies
💡Shadow
💡Naive
💡Self-respect
💡Martial arts
💡Responsibility
💡Competence
💡Enlightenment
💡Meek
💡Integration of the Shadow
💡Discipline
Highlights
Recognize and integrate satanic tendencies to transmute them rather than cast them away.
People who haven't integrated their shadow tend to be naive and often resentful.
Martial arts philosophy: be dangerous but not have to use it; this presence radiates potential for havoc.
Self-respect is tied to the potential for havoc and being capable but controlled.
Being harmless is not virtuous; a rabbit is harmless because it can't do anything, not because it's virtuous.
Heroes in mythology, like Harry Potter, must be monsters who control their monstrous tendencies.
Competence is necessary for facing life's difficulties; weak people often become bitter and dangerous.
True meekness means having power and knowing how to use it but keeping it under control.
Weakness and naivety are dangerous as they lead to being a victim to those capable of cruelty.
Respecting oneself and demanding respect from others comes from realizing one's dangerous potential.
Martial arts train people to avoid fights but to be prepared and confident if necessary.
Strength and the capacity for monstrousness guarantee peace and reduce the probability of conflicts.
Understanding your own shadow helps understand and control the capacity for atrocities seen in history.
The path to enlightenment involves facing the things you least want to face, not just seeking happiness.
Disciplining children properly requires recognizing your own capacity for dark behavior and keeping it in check.
Transcripts
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part of Spiritual Development is to
recognize the satanic tendencies that
characterize you
and to fully wrestle with them and to
and to integrate them that's the thing
it's it's not so much to cast them away
it's to transmute them you know and you
can see the difference between people
who've done that and people who haven't
at least to some degree because people
who haven't integrated the shadow at all
are naive and you can tell that when you
look at them and you can tell that when
you talk to them and because they're
naive they're often resentful as well
because they get taken advantage of it
and someone who's integrated that more
they're dangerous
in in the martial arts sort of way which
is they're dangerous but they don't have
to be they don't have to use it because
their presence radiates implicit
potential for havoc and that's really
necessary
it's one of the things that gives people
self-respect
if you're harmless you're not virtuous
you're just harmless you're like a
rabbit
a rabbit isn't virtuous it's just it
just can't do anything except get eaten
it's not virtuous
if you're a monster and you don't act
monstrously then you're virtuous but you
also have to be a monster while you see
this all the time Harry Potter's like
that too it's like he's he's flawed he's
hurt he's got evil in him he can talk to
snakes man he breaks rules all the time
all the time he's not obedient at all
but you know he has a good reason for
breaking the rules if he couldn't break
the rules him and his little Clique of
rule-breaking you know troublemakers if
they didn't break the rules they
wouldn't attain the highest goal so it's
very peculiar but it's a very very very
very very common mythological notion you
know the hero has to be
the hero has to be a monster
but a controlled monster Batman is like
that you know I mean it's it's
everywhere it's a story you always hear
if you're going to be a fighter you have
to want to win and you have to want to
hurt people I mean not for the sake of
hurting them that's what makes you
different than an evil person
but you have to have that capacity you
have to develop that
and you know that's the step on the way
to Enlightenment weirdly enough because
that isn't what people think people have
been fed this diet of pablum rights and
impulsive freedom for so long there's
just an absolute starvation for the
other side of the story there are no
rights technically speaking without
responsibilities and all we've had for
60 years is a dialogue about rights well
that leaves a hole on the other side of
the story and it's a whole that it's in
people's hearts essentially because
responsibility well perhaps that's not
more important than rights like I said
their their part and parcel of the same
formula but it's in responsibility that
most people find the meaning that
sustains them through life it's not in
happiness it's not an impulsive pleasure
those things blow away at the first ill
wind but to adopt the responsibility for
your own well-being and to try to put
your family together and to try to serve
your community and to try to seek for
Eternal truth and to live them that's
the sort of thing that can ground you in
in your life enough so that you can
withstand the difficulty of life
and when you tell people that especially
when you include yourself in the
audience let's say and you're not finger
waving from above then everyone knows
that it's true there's been this attempt
to identify masculine competence and and
power let's say but mostly competence
with tyranny and that's very very hard
on
on young man it's also hard on young
women for that matter but it's very
helpful for people to hear that they
should make themselves competent and
dangerous and take the proper place in
the world because it's the alternative
to being weak
and weak is not good the people who
shoot up the high schools they're weak
they're weak and life is a very
difficult process and you're not
prepared for it unless unless you have
the capacity to be dangerous that
doesn't mean that you should be cruel it
doesn't mean any of that there's a
statement in the New Testament the meek
shall inherit the Earth but the meek
isn't well translated it means something
more like
those who have swords and know how to
use them but keep them sheast will
inherit the world
that's a way better way of thinking
about it you have to be powerful and
formidable and then peaceful in that
order right and that's not the same as
being naive and weak and harmless which
is what young men are being encouraged
to be it's like that's a very bad idea
it's a very bad idea because naive weak
and harmless means that you can't
withstand the tragedies of life you
can't bear any responsibility you'll end
up bitter and when you get bitter then
you get dangerous
you don't treat adult men as if they're
infants
but the young men really need to hear
this more I think is that you 'd be a
monster
you know because everyone says well you
should be harmless virtuous you
shouldn't do anyone any harm you should
sheath your competitive Instinct you
shouldn't try to win you know you you
don't want to be too aggressive you
don't want to be too assertive you want
to take a back seat and all of that it's
like no
wrong you should be a monster an
absolute monster and then you should
learn how to control it
someone who is incapable of Cruelty is a
higher moral being than someone who is
capable of Cruelty and I would say and
this follows young as well that that's
incorrect and it's dangerously incorrect
because if you are not capable of
Cruelty you are absolutely a victim to
anyone who is
and so part of the reason that people go
watch anti-heroes and villains is
because there's a part of them crying
out for the incorporation of the monster
within them which is what gives them
strength of character and self-respect
because it's impossible to respect
yourself until you grow teeth and if you
grow teeth and you realize that you're
somewhat dangerous or maybe somewhat
seriously dangerous and then you might
be more willing to demand that you treat
yourself with respect and other people
do the same thing and so that doesn't
mean that being cruel is better than not
being cruel what it means is that being
able to be cruel and then not being
cruel is better than not being able to
be cruel because in the first case
you're nothing but weak and naive and in
the second case you're dangerous but you
have it under control and you know a lot
of martial arts concentrate on exactly
that as part of their philosophy of
training it's like we're not training
you to fight right we're training you to
be peaceful and awake and avoid fights
but if you happen to have to get in one
and then I guess the philosophy also is
is that if you're competent
at fighting that actually decreases the
probability that you're going to have to
fight because when someone pushes you
you'll be able to respond with
confidence and with any luck and this is
certainly the case with bullies with any
luck a reasonable show of confidence
which is very much equivalent to a show
of dominance is going to be enough to
make the bully back off
and so the strength that you develop in
your monstrousness is actually the best
guarantee of peace and that's partly why
Jung believed that it was necessary for
people to integrate their Shadow and he
said that was a terrible thing for
people to attempt because the human
Shadow
which is all those things about yourself
that you don't want to realize reaches
all the way to hell and what he meant by
that was it's through an analysis of
your own shadow that you can come to
understand why other people are capable
and you as well of the sorts of terrible
atrocities that characterize let's say
the 20th century and without that
understanding there's no possibility of
bringing it under control when you study
Nazi Germany for example or you study
the Soviet Union particularly under
Stalin
and you're asking yourself well what are
these perpetrators like forget about the
victims let's talk about the
perpetrators the answer is they're just
like you and if you don't know that that
just means that you don't know anything
about people including yourself and then
it also means that you have to discover
why they're just like you and believe me
that's no picnic so that's enough to
traumatize people and that's partly why
they don't do it and it's also partly
why the path to Enlightenment and wisdom
is seldom trod upon because if it was
all a matter of following your bliss and
doing what made you happy then everyone
in the world would be a paragon of
wisdom but it's not that at all it's the
it's a matter of facing the thing you
least want to face
this is an interesting thing about the
integration of the Shadow because
recognizing yourself as the locus of
evil let's say actually in some sense
gives you far more respect for yourself
strangely enough because the same
respect that you might have for a wild
animal or even a monster
so then maybe you learn to treat
yourself differently like I I think this
is particularly true with regards to the
discipline of children you know if you
know that you're a monster
and that that will manifest itself in
your life consciously or unconsciously
and if it's unconsciously it's it's not
good then you become better at
disciplining children and the reason for
that is that you don't want to expose
them to your dark side
and so if they behave and don't provoke
you which means they'll also behave for
other people then the Monstrous part can
stay in abeyance and then that's great
but if you don't understand yourself as
capable of wreaking havoc and that can
be the kind of Havoc that unfolds over
decades right because if you're going to
abuse a child it's the Primitive form of
abuse is the physical abuse the
sophisticated form of abuse is the
continual undermining of the child's
courage across perhaps their entire life
and that there's a terribly monstrous
element to that and if you're not
respected properly by the child say you
will absolutely take revenge on them and
you know in some sense that's the whole
Freudian psychoanalytic story it's it's
not all of it but you either have that
or it has you those are the options
and you don't become safe by being
castrated
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