“Any advice for the students here?” That was one of the questions which Jordan Peterson receive in the interview with Harvard University students. His respond?
Read great books. Really man! You’ve got this 4 year period that has been carved out from your lives by society. It gives you high quality identity: University student and freedom at the same time. And you’re not going to get that again in your life.
You’ve got this unbelievable libraries that are full of writing of people who were intelligent and articulate beyond comprehension. You can go there, and you can learn all this. Why should you learn it? Get a job? Get a good grates, or get a degree? All of that is nonsense!
The reason why you come to University to be educated is there is nothing more powerful than somebody who is articulate and who can think and speak.
It is power! And I mean power of the best sort. It is authority, an influence and respectability and competence. So you come to university to craft your highest skill. And your highest skill is going to be found in articulated speech. If you are master at formulating your arguments, you win everything. Better than that, when you win everything everybody around you wins too.
Consider your transformation to something approximating the logos. It means you shine the light to the whole world. Well, there is nothing more exciting to do than that! There is nothing better that you can possibly do.
If you have any sense, everything what you want to do would be for the good. Because there is nothing more compelling, meaningful or useful in combating tragedy of life to struggle with all your soul in behalf of the good.
Learn to think. Learn to speak. Learn to read. It makes you an individual superpower.
Thanks for reading.