Lex Fridman Podcast
#448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning
Fri, 11 Oct 2024
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Full Episode
The following is a conversation with Jordan Peterson, his second time on this, the Lex Friedman podcast. And now, a quick few second mention of each sponsor. Check them out in the description. It's the best way to support this podcast. We've got A Sleep for Naps, Ground News for a non-biased news aggregator, Better Health for mental health, and Element for delicious, delicious electrolytes.
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That's a good definition of home, the place you miss the most when you're away from it. I think I've read a quote from like Nietzsche or Schopenhauer, one of those like hardcore, maybe a bit cynical philosophers. Who was it? Anyway, the quote was something like, home is the place you have tried to escape the most, but failed. Oh boy.
It's kind of like from the whole school of thought that life is suffering. And so happiness is the moments where you escape the suffering briefly, that kind of perspective on life. So probably Schopenhauer, probably one of those guys. Anyhoo, in that same vein, I could say that, you know, taking a nap on an eight-sleep bed, cold bed surface, warm blanket, is a kind of escape from the suffering.
It is, no matter what, an escape from the world. It's the kind of escape that, once you return, you feel so refreshed, with new eyes, everything's brighter, everything's more hopeful. Everything radiates the possibility of something good happening. So I'm a big fan of naps. Go to asleep.com slash Lex and use code Lex to get $350 off the Pod 4 Ultra.
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