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133. Maps of Meaning 5: Story and Metastory  1 by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

133. Maps of Meaning 5: Story and Metastory 1

from The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

Published: Sun Aug 23 2020

Show Notes

In this lecture, I make the case that we each inhabit a story, describing where we are, where we are going, and the actions we must undertake to get from the former to the latter. These inhabited stories are predicated on an underlying value system (as we must want to be where we are going more than we value where we are). In addition, they are frames of reference, allowing us to perceive (things that move us along; things that get in our way), make most of the world irrelevant (things that have no bearing