Why you shouldn’t accept yourself unconditionally
Posted by Josh Taylor / January 3, 2018
We have been taught to accept ourselves no matter what––we need to accept our flaws and love ourselves. But in this video, psychologist and professor Jordan Peterson explains that “just accepting yourself” is nihilistic and, in the end, harmful to yourself. That’s because humans need to focus on something outside ourselves, something better than ourselves. Without that, we stagnate in our own misery––and life is misery. The path to improvement, according to Peterson, is to focus on something greater than yourself and that gives you redemption from your misery.
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