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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
It is pretty fascinating how carniverously people consume some of his platitudes are something profound.
He’s calm, steady, educated, and carries himself as a father figure to lost boys. He’s very good at raising him own profile and making money. Even when you read through 12 Rules, there’s little in there worth more than your basic self-help guide, but like how the Kon-Mari method monetised folding laundry and throwing out garbage, he’s made platitudes into dollars.
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I don't get your point. Peterson has openly said that a LOT of what he says and has written about are 'original' ideas. That doesn't mean that he or many others aren't capable of taking something that has been said a hundred times and say it better in a way that is more appealing and easier to understand.
"There is little in there worth more than your basic shelf-help guide."
I don't even know what that is supposed to mean. Going by the reaction of people who have read his book and watched his lectures or speeches, there is a LOT more in there than just your basic self-help guide. Your arrogance in trying to reduce the difference he's made in people's lives to nothing but 'basic self help' is strange.
He's not just a professor thrown in the spotlight. He is a clinical psychologist who obviously has a lot of experience working with troubled kids who you so sarcastically refer to as 'lost boys' as if there if something wrong with appealing to that demographic.