A Reminder To Treat Yourself Better | Jordan Peterson Motivation | 12 Rules For Life

foreign [Music] rule number two is treat yourself like you're someone that you care about see I read this piece of work by Jung a long while back it was a meditation on the injunction to treat your neighbor as as you would like to be treated something like that and what Jung pointed out which I really liked was

that that wasn't an injunction to be nice to other people it was an invitation to reciprocity it was something like this it's like you should figure out how you would like to be treated like you were taking care of yourself not how you would like people to respond to you it's more important

than that it's like imagine you had a child that you really cared for and someone said well people will treat this child exactly like you want them to but you have to figure out what that is and so then you'd have to sit down for like a month and you'd think okay well how do

you want your child to be treated you don't want everyone just to be nice to him you know you want people to challenge them and you want people to discipline them and you want people to tell them when he's wrong it's like you don't just want everyone to be nice that's that's pathetic it's pathetic

there's no challenge in that and so well you want to treat other people like you would like to be treated well then you have to figure out how would you like to be treated and while you'd like people to farm all over you and just lay everything at your feet it's like no that's not something

you'd wish for for someone that you were taking care of then there's an additional problem which is it's often the case that people will treat other people better than they treat themselves that happens extremely frequently so one of the things I pointed out chapter two was that if you have a dog and you take him to a