The Pursuit of Power and Hedonism | Jordan Peterson

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Jordan Bernt Peterson (born June 12, 1962) is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a retired professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He studies abnormal, social, and personality psychology. He is interested in the psychology of religious and ideological belief.
Transcript
00:00One of the things you might ask yourself is, why would you want to pursue power?
00:04And the answer would be, well, so I can compel other people to do things.
00:08Then you might say, well, compel them to do what?
00:11And then the answer to that's got to be something like, well, I want them to do what I want them to do.
00:15And so that way power becomes the handmaiden of hedonism.

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