As layoffs begin, workers band together to salvage what they can and reflect on the warning signs they wish, in retrospect, they had heeded — “If I’m going to get laid off, it will probably be next week,” a WeWork employee told me recently with the frankness of someone who has come to terms with a terminal diagnosis. In Slack, on WhatsApp, and in other group chats, he and his 15,000 colleagues are buzzing about…

Who is your Superhero? Batman, Ironman, Thor, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel or somebody else… Okay, let’s take a pause here. Who was your first superhero? Who is your favorite superhero from movies? Who is your superhero from real life? And when you found your answers were you also able to…

Here’s what I learned from his book, Beyond Order. — I have a confession to make. I used to hate Jordan Peterson. The reason? Many left-wing politicians and media outlets portrayed him as the devil and said he wasn’t worthy of having such a large platform to share important messages about life, philosophy, and many other subjects. For a long…

This article was originally posted on jordanbpeterson.com DIE It seems to me that the identifying factors of the radical left types that dominate the humanities and social sciences (and, increasingly, the HR departments of corporations) most particularly constitute the mantra of Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity (DIE). Of these three, equity is…

What women despise in men — Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson made a recommendation for the best documentary he’s ever watched. This was the documentary “Crumb.” I don’t know if it’s the best — but it’s certainly the most unforgettable. It tells the story of a successful cartoonist named Robert Crumb, who escaped his mother’s obsessive oedipal…

Jordan Peterson is merely the 2018 version of Robert Bly and the mythopoetic movement of the 1980s — Jordan Peterson is many things. He’s a former clinical psychologist and a former University of Toronto professor. He’s a best selling author of Twelve Rules for Life: An Antidote To Chaos and he’s a YouTube and Patreon star who makes a reported $100,000 a month…

What a new documentary about the controversial professor tells us about the state of the arts — On a recent Sunday evening I squeezed into a tiny movie theater tucked inside a residential neighborhood in Brooklyn to see a documentary film. The space was a bit musty and the radiator was spitting out too much heat, but there was something delightfully retro about it, right down to…

If someone is on TV talking about how suppressed their free speech is…their free speech isn’t being suppressed — *** I’ve moved my writing to Ghost in solidarity with Medium workers who faced union busting from their managers. You can find this article here. *** Jordan Peterson, a politically outspoken University of Toronto psychology professor, popped up on my news feed after he was invited to address a Monsanto…

Introduction I was a sophomore psych major at the University of Toronto when I came across Peterson’s 2nd-year elective. It was 2003. The class caught my attention in the course calendar: it had a 90% re-take rate, which meant that nearly every student who took the class would recommend it. Most…

Everyone you’ll ever meet knows something you don’t — If you make happiness the meaning of life, every time you’re not happy, you’ll feel like a failure. If, however, you do what’s meaningful in every situation, even failure will have a purpose. …

The real skills of dating are about intimacy, not seduction. — By Ken Page LCSW The search for love is one of our greatest life-tasks. Unfortunately, the quality of much dating advice and the atmosphere of most dating venues ranges from superficial to downright demeaning. The skills of dating are the skills of intimacy — not game-playing. These seven techniques will…