Month: January 2019

January 2019 Q & A


[Announcements] [1]
0:00:14 – Leaving Patreon in protest of recent banning of Carl Benjamin from the platform [2]
0:02:24 – Working on new book, tentatively titled: “Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life”. List of rules included (see below). Estimated publication in Jan 2020. [3]
0:05:00 – Upcoming locations for 12 Rules Tour: Zurich, Australia, New Zealand [4]
0:05:53 – Podcast release coming up with General Stanley McChrystal on his new book “Leaders: Myth and Reality” [5]
0:06:30 – Recap of 2018, 50% discount on Future Authoring program
0:11:30 – (Q#1) Can you talk about your own experiences / methods for “shadow integration”?
0:24:28 – (Q#2) How can I help my parents to sort themselves out? How can I talk about the resentment of my childhood in a way that benefits them instead of giving them guilt?
0:38:47 – (Q#3) It took me 7 months, but I completed the Self Authoring Suite. I’m still not motivated to do anything and waste all of my time. What do I do?
0:46:31 – (Q#4) I’m consumed by envy. I can hardly stand to read, watch, or listen to anyone more successful than myself. How am I aiming wrong?
0:54:38 – (Q#5) How would you advise a person who has the courage to defy the crowd but doesn’t have the verbal skills to debate in real time?
1:00:01 – (Q#6) The Tao Te Ching speaks of acting naturally. How is one to change and better their condition without unnaturally manipulating their world?
1:06:02 – Q&A disrupted by a puppy rolling a bone upstairs ^_^
1:09:34 – (Q#7) I agree we don’t live in a tyrannical patriarchy. Can you provide a better explanation for the iniquities women faced, especially the delay in voting rights?
1:16:45 – (Q#8) You have talked about earning your knowledge. How do you define this? When is it okay to debate ideas like yours if they are not your own?
1:22:45– (Q#9) Have you ever considered having a debate with Slavoj Zizek? *
1:23:59– (Q#10) How do you maintain a stable identity when you are plagued by bouts of depression and anxiety?
1:32:51– (Q#11) How are you always so consistently composed and confident?
1:39:22 – (Q#12) How do you manage to read so much?
1:44:35 – (Q#13) There are many drug-addicted and homeless people in my city, and it keeps getting worse. How do you help people who don’t want to be helped?
1:47:43 – (Q#14) How do I stop ruminating? These thoughts are recurring and relate to any and every embarrassing moment I’ve had (I’m a 76-year-old woman)
1:50:16 – (Q#15) What’s the best method to retain what you read and be able to use it in conversation?
1:52:54 – (Q#16) I just found out that’s I’m having a girl. How can I raise her to think for herself and not fall into the modes of thinking proposed by popular culture?

Interview with the grievance studies hoaxers


“In the second week of January (2019) I spoke with Dr. Peter Boghossian, Dr. James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose, authors of the infamous “Grievance studies” hoax papers. We discussed their motivations and the consequences of their actions. Portland State University is currently taking disciplinary actions against Dr. Boghossian, having found him guilty of academic misconduct for failing to have PSU’s Institutional Review Board approve his “studies” before they were conducted (!) Draw your own conclusions… ” – JBP