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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Is this the equivalent of "pull up your bootstraps" and "solve your own problems"? Essentially "make your own luck?"
Sometimes people need help, whether they know it or not. And society is historically fraught with people who don't reach out for help - for various reasons. This is why things like interventions, street support teams, and social services exist.
If this is the case, it's curious to me that Peterson is promoting this as a virtue, because he himself is an individual who is clearly having a hard time dealing with societal change and the way society is moving. He's condemning things like "woke culture" which is something he's going to need to reconcile with internally because its not going away.
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This is a complete mischaracterization. It's saying that you should do all you can to put yourself in the best position to succeed before blaming the external world for your situation. It does not mean to not reach out for help if you need it. Hell if 'cleaning your room' metaphorically means sort yourself out, it would actually be encouraging you to seek out and get help to do just that rather to do nothing.