Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2022-02-17
Books mentioned on Jordan Peterson - Take Responsibility & Become Unbreakable
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Satan's silence
Discussed“there's a book called Satan's silence that was written by a lawyer and a social worker that documents it it's just unbelievable there were stories about underground tunnels where children were being taken down”
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T. E. Hulme and the Ideological Politics of Early Modernism
Discussed“there's a book by a man named Henry elenberger called discovery of the unconscious that traces back psychogenic epidemics to about 300 years and I knew that you know people in adolescence”
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Irreversible Damage
Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier is a 2020 book that investigates the surging trend of teenage girls identifying as transgender, attributing the phenomenon largely to social contagion and peer influence.
Discussed“Abigail shrier has documented that quite nicely and in her book uh irreversible damage and it's way more girls than boys”
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Faust
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is a classic tragic play examining a pact made between a disillusioned scholar and the devil for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasure.
Discussed“so mephistophiles was laid out portrayed in girus FA um that's the story of a man who sold his soul to the devil for knowledge”
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The doors of perception
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley is a classic philosophical essay documenting the author's psychedelic experiences with mescaline and examining the relationship between human consciousness and mystical states.
Discussed“was it Alder suley that wrote doors of perception yeah yeah”
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Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits by James Clear is a comprehensive, practical guide to building positive routines and breaking bad ones through small, incremental behavioral changes.
Discussed“I thought this about um James clear's Atomic habits it was the bestselling non-fiction book in the world last year 20121 and it's great and he sold this book for whatever £8 on Kindle and 12 for a paperback”
