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Please Note: This is a work in progress - Dr Peterson is a prolific as well as deep thinker, and trying to encapsulate his philosophy in a single place is not a trivial task.
If you are someone who wants to better understand yourself and learn more effective ways of confronting your individual challenges, you are in the right place.
Our glossary is a tool to help you easily track down specific definitions of certain ideas and concepts shared by Canadian psychologist, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson.
Many people, from around the world, have found the content Dr. Peterson discusses in his books, lectures, talks, videos, podcasts, and interviews helpful; specifically, they say it's helped them learn to better navigate the challenges and complexity of their lives.
Dr. Peterson says his work is about exploring the relationship between responsibility and meaning. And while he speaks through the lens and perspective of a psychologist, his ideas draw from human wisdom across the ages. He synthesizes human understanding, knowledge, and narratives from across the disciplines of philosophy, religion, science, and myth.
We think there is value in understanding Dr. Jordan Peterson's philosophy, which is mainly centered around an individual's transformation of personality, based on their seeing the world as a place of meaning and knowing how to act properly in it.
This wiki site has been compiled by JBPDaily Forum members, who themselves enjoy Jordan Peterson’s content and have found it useful in their own lives.
Whether you are a novice or an expert, when it comes to understanding these ideas and concepts, we think it's helpful to have verbatim definitions straight from the horse's mouth. That is, these are exact quotes from Dr. Jordan Peterson (with minor editorial corrections), taken directly from his extensive body of work, with specific citations to the sources from which they were drawn (wherever possible).In the interpretations section, forum members have attempted to make interpretations of Jordan’s quotes in simpler language while being careful about not altering Jordan's message in a significant way.
In the last few years as Dr. Peterson's fame (and notoriety) has grown, lots of people have interpreted (and misinterpreted) his ideas and perspectives, often in the service of bolstering their own ideological agendas and arguments, which has sometimes resulted in confusing or contorted portrayals of his positions.
The aim of this site is to cut through that clutter, by offering this tool, a glossary, so you can contend with Dr. Peterson's ideas directly and accurately, in his own words. From there, you can draw your own conclusions.
Please note: While we have done our best to be factually correct with quotes and sources, naturally there's always a chance we have made a mistake. If you have any concerns, please email us at wiki (at) jbpdaily (dot) org. And in case you find any information helpful enough to re-use it in a different place, please include the source.
