Maps of Meaning
Mentions in Episodes:
- Episode: Dr. Jordan Peterson: How to Best Guide Your Life Decisions & Path
Podcast: Huberman LabIn my class, 'Maps of Meaning,' I used to have students do this as a project, and one of the projects was to find something in your neighborhood or family that isn’t right and see if you can set it right—just write down what happens.
- Episode: Beyond Dawkins | Jonathan Pageau | EP 496
Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson PodcastIt seems to me, too, that I did this in my Maps of Meaning book, and I wanted to make sure that the propositions I put forward could be validated pharmacologically, neurologically, psychologically, and from the perspective of cybernetics and narrative—five dimensions of triangulation.
- Episode: The Devil and Karl Marx | Dr. Paul Kengor | EP 455
Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson PodcastAnd my first book, "Maps of Meaning," actually started as about a 40-page poem. Wow.
- Episode: Navigating Belief, Skepticism, and the Afterlife | Alex O'Connor @CosmicSkeptic | EP 451
Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson PodcastWhen I wrote Maps of Meaning, I did that; I used the Jungian works in that regard, but I also used what I knew about neuropsychology and neuropsychopharmacology, with the presumption being that if all these pointers pointed to the same thing, it was probably there.
- Episode: The Assault on Faith, Family, & Science | Dr. Phil | EP 430
Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson PodcastWhen I wrote my first book, 'Maps of Meaning,' I included a chapter entitled 'The Divinity of Interest,' which focused on calling. This is also implicit in your principles.
- Episode: Building an Empire and Making Snow White | Jeremy Boreing | EP 389
Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson PodcastAnd when I taught this course at Harvard and then at the University of Toronto, and it's online, called Maps of Meaning, I think what it's about is the inevitable religious substrate of culture itself. I have a reason for saying inevitably religious.
- Episode: Evolution, Religion, and Happiness | Dr. Gad Saad | EP 377
Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson PodcastYou can debate whether what they found was spurious, but in my book Maps of Meaning, I attempted to take their findings, construct a nomological network of cross-cultural mythological analysis, and compare it against the measurement techniques of behavioral psychology and neuroscience.
- Episode: Parkour and Rough Play | Rafe Kelley | EP 343
Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson PodcastI was literally just reading through all the beginnings of the chapters of 'Maps of Meaning' yesterday, especially the chapter on 'The Hostile Brothers.' The chapter discusses two transpersonal archetypes we can embody at the individual level.
- Episode: The Future: Vision and Invitation | EP 339
Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson PodcastFirst of all, when I wrote my book 'Maps of Meaning,' I analyzed the structure of redemptive stories. Your life is a redemptive story if you're fortunate because you have a lot of trouble in your life and yet you plow through and take care of that trouble.
- Episode: Leading the Counter-Woke Revolution | Konstantin Kisin | EP 333
Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson PodcastEpstein has pointed out in his new book, 'Fossil Future', something I’d also investigated in my 'Maps of Meaning' book: this underlying religious narrative is basically a Gaia narrative.
- Episode: Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #313
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastThe following is a conversation with Jordan Peterson, an influential psychologist, lecturer, podcast host, and author of 'Maps of Meaning,' '12 Rules for Life,' and beyond.
- Episode: The True Meaning Of 'Beyond Order' | EP 258
Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson PodcastNow, you asked about identity, and I used the example of a child's game, but I could go through identity more generally. I particularly focus on this in Maps of Meaning. For example, let's say I'm sitting and typing.