I'll never forget the first real joke my daughter 'got' (not including peekaboo type things or tickling etc). She was only a toddler at the time. I gave her a fruit cup, and instead of giving her her usual spoon, with a completely straight face I handed her an enormous serving spoon. She took it from me, looked at it for a second and burst out laughing. I'm lucky that I realized at the time how significant this was - that she understood a completely abstract joke with no cues from me that it was a joke. It is one of my happiest memories, and I chuckle every time I see that spoon in the back of the drawer.
This is awesome! :D It reminds me of a joke my dad made: We had a bunch of kids over and one of the boys made it very clear he wanted a big spoon and not a kids spoon. So my dad gave him that oversized spoon. :D He looked at it, took a few moments, smiled big and went "nahhhh, I didn't mean this big!". It was hilarious. :D
That’s only because he saw that mister Rodgers is gone for good and he knows he’s got this. Mister Rodgers is nice Jesus and Peterson is revelation Jesus; Moral of the story “don’t f with the Jesus”
I sometimes try make strangers laugh. I was in the local supermarket standing looking into the "Bargain Basket" which was full of packets of chocolate biscuits. As I was deciding whether to buy a pack or two, a woman comes up and briefly looks in and grabs a pack. So I say to her "I wanted that one" - She's standing there looking at the pack in her hand and into the basket trying to figure out what's so special about that pack, since they're all the same. I just smiled and said "I'm just kidding. They're all the same" and walked off. She laughed so hard. 5 mins later when I made my way around to the checkout, she was standing in line still giggling ...sometimes when someone I've just met asks what I do for a living, with a straight face I say I'm a model...I just to see how long it takes for them realize I'm kidding..because I look nothing like a model...and they're too polite usually to burst out laughing immediately...that uncomfortable silence between the joke and the realization it's a joke is golden LOL
Are you American? Just asking because I've noticed a difference in how quickly people from the UK and Ireland recognise irony in contrast to people from the USA. Usually people over here initially assume you're being ironic until it's clear it's not the case, and Americans will initially assume you're being literal. It's interesting to see such a difference in similar cultures. I also think this renders the US tricksters more effective because of their novelty.
@@sw3tfilth207 well sometimes it might be even worse always different angles to everything. Life is like a slot machine you just don't know what's gonna happen and is both funny and horrifying hey atleast we all die one day
Not really. Your quote is rather useless and is one of those things that someone might say to sound intelligent, but actually, it says nothing because it's a complete generalization like a stereotype, but even a stereotype may have more truth to it. Great thinkers in history have recognised human tragedy and people who had lived merely instinctively had had joyful lives, as they may call it, enjoying simple pleasures.
Actually, my husband and I each have a notebook of notes. When they’re full, we thought it would be interesting to compare and see which notes we both took down and which one of us did not.
Me...too))) i am afraid of this phrase, but i am such a fan of JBP)) i have three, a chart in my phone, a bigger one for deeper things and research around them, like archetypes etc and a tiny pinky one for aphorisms.
As a woman, one of the most attractive things to me in a man is a self-deprecating sense of humour. It indicates self-confidence, psychological stability, and intelligence.
@james phan Hell no. Pimps wear flamboyantly amazing trench coats with fur. Cardigans are for depressed people, or people who stopped caring (or both). Like George Costanza with his "draped in velvet" style; where you stop giving a damn, regardless of with a positive or negative connotation
Personal jokes are often predicated by shortcomings recognized by others like tripping. The ability to laugh at your shortcomings is in and of itself a mechanism for improvement. In other words if you can’t take a personal joke, you’re essentially too arrogant to realize your own faults
I had an automatic faucet in my bathroom that my 2 cats learned to use. The first cat held her paw up to the sensor for a moment and starts to lap up the water before it disappears down the drain. The 2nd cat would sit on the rim of the sink right next to the faucet while the other cat was drinking. But the ONLY time cat #2 operated the auto-faucet, was when cat #1 put her head down to drink! A stream of water hit cat #1 squarely on the back of her head, every time! Cat #1 would get angry and chase cat #2 out of the bathroom. While she tried to get another drink the 2nd cat sneaks back and splashes her again! This repeats 3 or 4 times until all the little sips added up to a proper drink. I am convinced that they do have a sense of humor, at least for practical jokes!
It certainly shows their ability to plan ahead or see a chain of actions to a specific end. It's like the NOVA program Bird-Brains that amazed us with tool-using birds. And how about the Crows? Being able to pass down through several generations the information that allowed brand new crows to know that man wearing a certain mask was to be feared! We only win the #1 species on the Planet award, because we did the judging...
I agree with Peterson. I just recognize myself a lot in this. Humor is seen as childish by many of my circle, but that is just not always the case. Having humor is attractive and helpful to even combat the tragedy of life
@Kevin Ford You too ?? I'm so happy that I ran across your comment because I've been thinking the exact same thing for a while now and I was starting to think that I might be the only one who felt that way, until now that is 👍. I'd be elated just to be able to listen to him read his grocery list to me. I have no doubt that just by me listening to him read something as simple and as mundane as his very own actual grocery list, it would still be thought provoking, eloquent, educational, enlightening, and an extremely entertaining read that I probably would never be able to forget even if I tried 😁. Be Blessed ~ Godspeed👆!!!
One of the greatest moments in my life was when I heard my son laugh for the first time when he was a baby. Of coarse he was laughing at me. Kind of glad it happened that way.
My husband and I had just moved into our 2 story house. I was upstairs when I saw the deck light from below turn on then off. I quickly turned the light on again from the upstairs bedroom switch. My husband turned the light off. Then I turned it on again. He turned it off. Then I was laughing so hard and my husband heard me. Then he finally realized I was playing with him. Ha, ha. We laughed and laughed.
I think of a true sense of humor as being able to laugh at oneself. It takes abstract and concrete humor to be able to accept what's amusing about ourselves. That can carry over into other parts of life to interfere with anger
Very true, "humor is the key to life". Noone can teach how to develop it, that is why the intellect is humors domain. But without tears, the heart goes dry.
There are levels of humor. Spite, schadenfreude, sarcasm is all pretty low but the laugh is loud and short lived and the higher one goes the quiter the laughter becomes. Irony, up there somewhere, would be the place where minds split. A child doesn't get irony/metaphors/poetry. There is also no beauty for a child - okay maybe its mother.
Personal note: I have no preference in any kind of humor, as long as it is not forced and there is a balance in the world. I mean, one has to laugh when one has to laugh - whoever controls his emotions will never "laugh all laughs and cry all tears".
I can, when I fall down while running to fast and others see me fall, also stand up, laugh loudly in a fake way about myself and show everybody that I don't give a fuck about status. Then - afterwards, nothing happend.
What I like about Peterson is that behind his seriousness in addressing the painful and destructive hazards for humankind, there is genuine warmth. Genuine warmth like that of his very fine sweater.
It just showcases confidence. You trip and it doesn't bother you. Like nothing can reach you. It's like someone who receives terrible news and just smirks. Like wow, that guy is that strong and confident in that mysterious sort of way nothing gets to him. It shows strength and total control.
what i can accuse dr Peterson of is that I can’t stop listening to him and I am behind in my work! Thank you for all, my kids introduced you to me and I keep sending your videos to my friends, we learn how to think properly AND how to communicate, your talks are so helpful on so many levels!
As Prof Peterson states, it is important to be able not to take ourselves too seriously, and, at times, laugh at ourselves, especially to laugh at ourselves while others are laughing at us. Humility is the the primal virtue isn't it? If you don't get that you are imperfect, you will never get anything, and will always have to take everything. Too bad we do not look for humility in others, particularly in those whom we let lead. Worse yest, we disdain humility in others, often calling it fake virtue or even weakness. We dismiss the most important byproduct of humility - graciousness. Without humility, the next primal virtue - prudence - is impossible. And so it goes....
I noticed nowadays there seems to be a trend of people having a more sadistic sense of humor especially the younger ones ... has anybody else noticed this ?
@@gardensofthegods perhaps this is the result of the conditioning that comes from decade on end of unending, falsely initiated, and urban-based wars where we could don't even consider the toll on our generation of our soldier, or the terrible price indigenous people have payed and continue to pay. Maybe its the types of recreation popular today, like hours of spent alone or with others on computerized wargames, Grand Theft Auto, pornography, interactive ad hominem social media. Maybe its how you and and I can look at one another and believe, as the pro-lifers do, that somebody had a "choice" or worse a "right" that you or I didn't need to be here, because at some both from our creation, were less that "tissue" that belonged to someone else. I don't know that people's humor are any ore or less sadistic now than they were in that last several centuries. I only see people today, what they do, what they believe in, and how they treat one another. I only see a few noble beings, and as I said four years ago, they are noble in the humblest of ways. Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.
@@JoeCiliberto Very nicely put . I remember back around 2016 putting on my Facebook stuff about stopping the human sacrifice ... and the Never Ending War ... that and other things I was say got me in trouble with Facebook and shortly at there after they wiped out everything I had there . Yes all of those things that you talked about have all gone into making people the way they are today . Personally I can't stand this era we're living in and wish I could turn back the clock . Sure people were statistic in other ages also for example Spanish Inquisition burning people at the stake and whatnot . It's just that here in 2022 people don't seem to have really advanced much ... it's the technology that has ... We think we're smarter and more compassionate but I do feel a lot of the younger people have a more sadistic attitude , yes . Yes I know that poem from St Francis and we used to sing it a long time ago when I was in the choir . We can only each try to do our best .
@@gardensofthegods I suppose it is true that every age has their share of moral and ethical failures. If we look back, we must see how they were overcome their own, or in subsequent generations. As you say, this age, I'll call it the age of great speed and broad propagation of shared opinions, is lost, until it learns to deny itself that addiction; 360 degree self-gratification. We in the west lament that China does not have an open internet. What have we done with ours? We defend a free press but our press is bought and paid for in its pursuit of advertising and other revenues. Yet we dial in every moment we can, on side or the other. We live in a democratic republic led by a Government the people vote for that is anything but representative of the people. Yet we line up on one side or the other, when neither gives a damn about us. We continue to lose our share of the world's manufacturing capacity in all areas of industry. Yet America appetitive for the things they want, goes insatiate. Each job lost contributes to a decline in the quality of America life, as well as a correlating increase in overall adversarial power. The profits made go into weapons systems aimed at us. We educate or world and the world despises us. Yet we fail to educate our own except to award them BS degrees and rob them of financial freedom. I wish I saw a more moves in the right direction. But, here are very few.
@@JoeCiliberto I know . It's depressing . Maybe that's why a lot of the younger people seem to have a sadistic sense of humor because a lot of them really don't see much of a future and they know that they will never be able to afford even thinking about ever owning or mortgaging a house . Yeah college for a lot of us was a big racket ... student loan debt . The age of I can't remember how you worded it but it was pretty good . Well in their lifetime they might be cured of that addiction if we get hit with coronal mass injection ( solar flare ) will render all electricity useless on half the planet and we have been overdue for it for a while . A lot of people wouldn't be able to survive w/o internet ... I would miss it but it came along when I was already an adult . You know how you thought it's not just because of supply chain problems everything is so expensive suddenly and you suspected corporate greed ? Last week CBS Sunday Morning to the piece are corporations making inflation worse . They found out yesterday corporations have doubled their profits . DOUBLED . Not only do they not care about people ... they REALLY DO NOT CARE .
When my daughter was too little, her mother used to spend the whole day at home looking after her while I was working. Once, she told me moved that she had a difficult day and, in a moment, sat down disappointed on the porch floor, resting the head on the arms with hands under chin, because the girl was refusing to do anything. At that moment, my daughter smiling approached her mother, pulled her hands from the chin and pushed the sides of her mouth trying to make her a smile.
I have a hypothesis on humor in which humor, as expressed in humans, is a further development of PLAY, a subset of play. I found it to be much easier to understand humor as a phenomenon in that context. Also, JP's take on one's ability to "take a joke" seems spot on.
Oh, god, I could do so much more if I wasn't so damn lazy...lol The rationale behind it is that everything new that comes along in evolutionary sense has to be based on something that was before, something more general that then produces something more specific. Why play? Well, there is a connection between humor and play, I realized, in which one contains the other but not the other way around, which reveals likely ancestral relationship. There is an element of play in humor - one plays with different relationships between things, words, in a non-serious way, and this "play of concepts", on one level (it's a multi-layered phenomenon), produces joy, rhythmic contractions of the diaphragm and so on. But play, as exemplified by for instance two cubs of some mammalian species, does not contain humor, because the cubs don't laugh. But it does contain the same element of non-seriousness as humor, something without which the whole situation would be perhaps a fight to the death in the case of the cubs, or a display of inferiority and stupidity, not to mention verbal aggression in the case of humor. That is why humans have to pay close attention when and with whom to engage in humor - the other person has to agree to PLAY. If not then - you will be perceived as an asshole, or worse. That's the short version. Some of the other aspects are on my dusty old channel titled "Psychology of Humor" in the video and continues in the comments below.
Archangel Lucifer I’m of course with you 100% on the notion of evolution as a (form-and-function-)conservative process, so yes I totally see genealogical traces of play in humour, if you will. ... But where does the next ‘level’ or stratum come from that makes things genuinely ‘funny’? Still seems mysterious to me and I’ve always wondered why!
Transliminal So have I. It becomes less mysterious when one sees it in the light of s.c. Superiority theory of humor. Jordan's view, as far as I can see, is very similar to my own, i.e. he talks about humor as a way to advance in the human dominance hierarchy and mine is a juxtaposition of dominance and submission, superiority and inferiority inherent both to play AND humor. The "funny" part, in my view, comes from a feeling of "being-better-than", "being-superior-to" different people and things, including (thanks to our ability for abstract thought) being superior even to yourself - which is not your real Self - but an image, a caricature of you that you create when you're making fun of yourself for example. Nietzsche defined happiness as a feeling that one's power is rising, that something has been overcome by you - I took it from there and made the connection that people who laugh are happy, laughter is an expression of humor, humor is an expression of play and play is a non-serious (thus SAFE) expression of dominance and submission. A real expression of dominance can get one killed if one fails, but play - lets one "test the waters" without serious consequences. Edit: What I still don't understand is why people laugh, in the way that they do? The physiological aspect, I mean. Why laughter looks the way it does?
Dejan laughter is the communication from the viewer to the joke maker that they understood it was a joke and nothing threatening or meant to be taken seriously. simple as that..
I saw my very own grandson start his sense of humor at 2 months of age... it was in full force at 4 months!!!... He is now 4 years , and he is still using it, all day, everyday.
Laughing does not necessarily mean that a baby has a sense of humor, they have to be able to understand even a simple joke to call it humor, but a 2 month or 4-month-old baby has no capacity to get a joke.
What do you mean? I have experienced depression but it is not nearly as bad as it was 8 years ago. Do you suffer from depression? I try to be honest about feeling.
With me I still laugh even when I'm extremely depressed, but it's mostly about trying to feel happy as opposed to doing it. I feel like people can laugh socially when they aren't enjoying themselves as a kind of "fake it till you make it", so I'm sure there are people other than me who instead of pretending to be slaphappy just kind of give up on trying it.
I sure don't mean being pretentious. Phoniness is not the answer. I am the kind of person for whom love is very important. I have to have some meaningful relationships in life. It is too overwhelming to try and do things with no one to share my heart with and talk with. Trusting that God really loves us and prayer is the best thing. That way I get beyond my own feelings and am no longer so dependent on the way others treat me. When someone we are close to really mistreats us and refuses to deal with it head on the sense of isolation is overwhelming. I don't deny our need for each other, and for intimacy. But to look beyond that in heart to heart relationship with the Lord sets us free from self imprisonment.
"My room appears clean as I've chosen not to recognise the chaos, instead I distract myself calling out patriatchy on 'social media' and am above it all!" Said the lefty feminist, as she sat alone with her anger, as a loving couple passed by in the distance, "suckers" she sighed!
My kid starting making jokes at like 14 months. Faking things, saying the wrong thing on purpose and then laughing. Infants can be absolutely hysterical, and they know it.
A lot of people when they do mistakes but they have a good sense of humor all time and loved by that so they get told nothing,but the ones who don't have any sense of humor when they make mistakes are getting treated badly
This is something I struggled with for years. I always been told "learn to take a joke" or "its a joke calm down" and I would got mad hearing that all the time. But deep down I think I was just deeply insecure about myself and I'm tried to find out way am I so scared? Why am I so insecure. Then I remember watching another video saying "just accept your insecurities, own it" and I'm on a tippling scale to accept it or not. I had a cousin of mine who had a sense of humor and he would laugh at himself, and he had more friends I had. Nobody seem to bully him but they bullied me. How does one accept themselves even if they're not perfect and find humor in it?
try laughing at mundane things people do to you as a joke. like when if someone skips you in a line in public and then look at you and smile and say just kidding, you have to smile at them back or give a chuckle. start from there.
The transcendence that J. Peterson is talking here is well written about in Michael Singer's book "The Untethered Soul". I recommend that book to anyone interested in learning about that part of yourself.
That reminds me of a nice german joke: Some interviewer visited an old, wise guy and asked him the question, how he got into this "state of bliss". His answer: "Don´t drink, don´t have sex, NO women, NO drugs, NO greed for the almighty $, NO fast cars; j u s t m e d i t a t e." The interviewer finally asks: "And THAT was worth it " ?
I was at the poker table the other day and had just smoked a bunch of weed so I was a little more gregarious than normal. A waitress told me next I'd be jumping on my chair, in reference to Tom Cruise perhaps. It's a sjw Haven so I've gotten flack from people for having balls there before but instead of getting offended, I laughed (it was funny after all) and tipped her for the joke. I could have misread her but she seemed a little surprised. I don't know if she was surprised I tipped her or that I wasn't offended but this video helped me analyse better and he's right, the more you let petty shit roll off your back, the more respect you tend to get. This man should be required study for anyone in the top 5 percent for intelligence.
It has been said, Laughter is the best medicine; however, not everyone appreciates it. I do believe it can relieve stress and make people feel more comfortable and at ease. Especially when you're facing some sad situations... also you have to ask yourself would I rather be crying about this situation or laughing about it? Most people would rather laugh then sulk.
If you want to break some ice, nothing works better than a cigarette. Just hold it, as if you want to smoke it, and "anybody" wishing to interact with you, will have an excuse. I've never been a smoker, but I invented that many years ago, when smoking went on everywhere, so I could go up to a girl/woman, and ask if she had a light, and no matter her answer, I'd just say: "No thanks, I don't smoke. It was just to break the ice." They would laugh, we would talk - probl soved - Never let me down.!
Being silly-funny doesn't make you high status. The reason humour makes you high status if not because it shows you're funny, but because it shows you're clever and capable of thinking outside the box. THAT's why humour makes you high status.
Writing, one dimensional in a line; Painting, two dimensional on a plane; Sculpture, three dimensions as are our bodies; [dance here] Music, four dimensions moving in time; Humor, five dimensional, a preparation constructed for delivery..... to cause a moment when the mind grasps it all at once. Comedians are generally super smart; George Carlin. Dumb comedians don't last very long; Amy Schumer.
ok, I guess that works. I was thinking this: an audio signal can be stored on a computer as a a sine wave that changes frequency (pitch of sound) and amplitude (loudness). So that's like the essence of audio.
although, I can see arguments for writing being a 1d signal. The way your brain interprets the writing-it takes it from the 2d painig form- then processes it to be like a 1d signal where you have characters changing over time. And then it processes further and you have words over time, that would also be 1d. Sorry, sound is just 1d, i dunno why i said 2d at some point
I'm from India and live 250 km from delhi.i'm 28 and love to see little kids respond to absurdism. There's this kid (4 year old), who lives in the apartment besides mines.he's a good friend.one day he was sitting on a rocking chair we have in the drawing room.i entered the house and saw him.he saw me.then he started rocking the chair back and forth without breaking eye contact. I asked him (in hindi of course) " did you buy the ticket ?" He immediately started laughing.i was like okay.that's cool.
That reminds me of a nice german joke: Some interviewer visited an old, wise guy and asked him the question, how he got into this "state of bliss". His answer: "Don´t drink, don´t have sex, NO women, NO drugs, NO greed for the almighty $, NO fast cars; j u s t m e d i t a t e." The interviewer finally asks: "And THAT was worth it " ?
For anybody curious, the comedian charged by the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal was Mike Ward. He's a tremendous comedian. I remember hearing one of his bits on TV when I was 12, and it felt like a revelation. I couldn't believe how funny he was, while simultaneously being clairvoyant about harsh world realities. Peterson really nails it on the head with his description of the trickster figure!
So here's how this works . . . step 1) see a Jordan Peterson video suggestion, step 2) click on the Jordan Peterson video, step 3) click like button on the Jordan Peterson video. Now there's your algorithm.
I have remarked concerning ducks swimming in a pond to someone that when ducks are quacking,.............their actually laughing telling each other human jokes. He didn't quite look at ducks the same way again. Just having a good laugh at ourselves now & again.
@Foxtrot People like jokes because they live in repressed fear of demons, and laughing releases the stress related to that perpetual fear, and at the same time it is a sign of submission to the devils. When a person is mature and strong, having integrated the shadow, he doesn't laugh at jokes. Jokers, clowns and bullshit artists are devils that the ordinary man can handle and see clearly, and have a therapeutic role for the mortal men. But a grown up man, doesn't laugh at jokes, and only smiles at that which is pure and holy, and never to blasphemy, which is actually what a joke is - blasphemy, and devilish. I will laugh the day the world is liberated from the satanic overlords, until then I don't laugh.
@@fjodortorso4208 Thats right,. The mature doesnt laugh because he is amusing h i m s e l f pretty well (for instance an artist) and needs no others to bring him any fun he does not want. He only s m i l e s like a Buddha. . .
When does being able to take a joke become being unable to stand up for yourself though? My instinct is it depends on the relevance, repetition and how it makes me feel.
@@johnconstantine2639 your right. I have a tendency at times to take a joke to far. But the grey rock approach tends to work, if the victim acts boring silent and for all purposes like a grey rock in personality, you get bored and give up, and look and feel socially inept to all others viewing this interaction...
In my experience with peers, not instructors, Know-it-alls who don't give off the vibe they are one, and downplay their expertise with humility and can make jokes at their own lack of dire seriousness, make the best know-it-alls that people like hearing about new things from, because they aren't threatened and are disarmed by their informal self-comfort.
Many years ago, before it was considered un-cool; only kinda weird, I was a professional clown, and when I was in my learning phase I had heard that there were times when the "Jester" or "Fool" was often the brightest one in the King's (/Queen's) Court. It was told to me that there had been countries who didn't go to war because their Fools had pointed out how wise it wuld be then go on to list the worse case scenerios humorously.
This is why narcissists and sociopaths become deeply angry when something happens that they might receive laughter from, or that rattles their sense of self-perfection. God I hate those people.
Absolute smitten by someone. they have rejected me 1 year ago, now working the same place, had ideas to say along this to relieve the tension. but just could not get them out.
"What do you suppose is the state of the young man's heart?" Plato “But WHEN do the biggest sophists turn out young and old, men & women, JUST the way they want them to be?" Glaucon asks. Socrates: “When many gathered together sit down in assemblies, courts, theaters, army camps, or any other common meeting of a multitude, and with a great deal of uproar, blame some of the things said or done, and praise others, both in excess, shouting and clapping; and, besides, the rocks and the very place surrounding them echo and redouble the uproar of blame and praise. "Now in such circumstances, as the saying goes, what do you suppose is the state of the young man’s heart? Or what kind of private education will hold out for him and not be swept away by such blame and praise and go, borne by the flood, wherever it tends, so that he’ll say the same things are noble and base as they do, practice what they practice, and be such as they are?” (Plato’s Republic, tr. Bloom, 492A)
It's a byproduct of an "black and white", or "all good or all bad" mindset that alot of people have. It's the same as when children approach the age that they begin to realize theyre parents arent without flaws, and (ideally) eventually realize theres no good that exists without bad and vice versa... Its been so commonplace in the last few decades to deify celebritys (just as most tend to do with theyre parents during early childhood), and subsequently, when the idol falls short of the perceived (and unrealistic) imposed standard, most will resort to defense mechanisms such as rejecting the entirety of that particular person as well as creative output. It's like hearing a bunch of emotionally immature 12 year olds mumbling "I hate my dad". I'm sure there is more to it from a psychological veiwpoint of course, but eh, who cares, really...
NOT necessarily my friend. Just read the "levity of being" by Milan Kundera. It was a kind of vademecum for the Czech folks in the hard years during the time of the russian regime . . .
I'll never forget the first real joke my daughter 'got' (not including peekaboo type things or tickling etc).
She was only a toddler at the time.
I gave her a fruit cup, and instead of giving her her usual spoon, with a completely straight face I handed her an enormous serving spoon.
She took it from me, looked at it for a second and burst out laughing.
I'm lucky that I realized at the time how significant this was - that she understood a completely abstract joke with no cues from me that it was a joke.
It is one of my happiest memories, and I chuckle every time I see that spoon in the back of the drawer.
This is a really cool little story
This is awesome! :D
It reminds me of a joke my dad made: We had a bunch of kids over and one of the boys made it very clear he wanted a big spoon and not a kids spoon. So my dad gave him that oversized spoon. :D He looked at it, took a few moments, smiled big and went "nahhhh, I didn't mean this big!". It was hilarious. :D
So cute!
That's a great story!
I think that’s the cutest thing I’ve read in a while. Thanks for putting a smile on my face. 😊
"It's tyrants who can't tolerate the comedian." -Dr. Jordan Peterson
@Isami Yuzuriha Let me guess, you're a TYRANT?!
@Isami Yuzuriha I mean ,even comedians have hierarchies with best and worst of all time
@Sigmund Palpatine You must be a trans
@@save_theworld You must be an ideologue
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I think JP rests calmly and confidently as the alpha male atop the sweater dominance hierarchy.
Roflmao
you have a good se se of humor, I think JP would also agree with your statement
That’s only because he saw that mister Rodgers is gone for good and he knows he’s got this. Mister Rodgers is nice Jesus and Peterson is revelation Jesus; Moral of the story “don’t f with the Jesus”
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Well done Jason Well done
I sometimes try make strangers laugh. I was in the local supermarket standing looking into the "Bargain Basket" which was full of packets of chocolate biscuits. As I was deciding whether to buy a pack or two, a woman comes up and briefly looks in and grabs a pack. So I say to her "I wanted that one" - She's standing there looking at the pack in her hand and into the basket trying to figure out what's so special about that pack, since they're all the same. I just smiled and said "I'm just kidding. They're all the same" and walked off. She laughed so hard. 5 mins later when I made my way around to the checkout, she was standing in line still giggling ...sometimes when someone I've just met asks what I do for a living, with a straight face I say I'm a model...I just to see how long it takes for them realize I'm kidding..because I look nothing like a model...and they're too polite usually to burst out laughing immediately...that uncomfortable silence between the joke and the realization it's a joke is golden LOL
Are you American? Just asking because I've noticed a difference in how quickly people from the UK and Ireland recognise irony in contrast to people from the USA. Usually people over here initially assume you're being ironic until it's clear it's not the case, and Americans will initially assume you're being literal. It's interesting to see such a difference in similar cultures.
I also think this renders the US tricksters more effective because of their novelty.
Hahahaha @mark james, can I use the model one?
@Wucci Mane it's not funny objectively. But in the moment it is.
@Wucci Mane Someone is lacking
Sid Kapoor not one single joke is funny objectively. Humor is by definition subjective.
Is this filmed in JP's house? That room is remarkably clean.
Lightest Asian oh no...
ryan montell doesn't look like his house
But you can't see his study area from this shot lol.
Sterile
Nope, it’s an apartment I had access to in Vancouver, during his recent visit to UBC.
"Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel." -Jean Racine
I think it’s opposite sometimes. Ppl who think too much get themselves in situations that they think are bad but rlly those situations don’t exist
@@sw3tfilth207 well sometimes it might be even worse always different angles to everything. Life is like a slot machine you just don't know what's gonna happen and is both funny and horrifying hey atleast we all die one day
Not really. Your quote is rather useless and is one of those things that someone might say to sound intelligent, but actually, it says nothing because it's a complete generalization like a stereotype, but even a stereotype may have more truth to it. Great thinkers in history have recognised human tragedy and people who had lived merely instinctively had had joyful lives, as they may call it, enjoying simple pleasures.
@@sw3tfilth207 Exactly
@@alexanderdean8682 Amen, true
This man is a saviour, I would be in deep depression without insights gathered through his lectures
True
''I live in my own place, have never copied nobody even half, and at any master who lacks the grace to laugh at himsef - I laugh''
- Nietzsche
that quote made me think about him making fun of his own* moustache lmao
Nietzsche is the GOAT philosopher.
Ironically, he unintentionally copied Max Stirner in one of his works.
One needs security and confidence to laugh at themselves.
You would seem to be equating monetary success and social status with personal confidence and security. The two are certainly not synonymous!
Or hate yourself
One needs to laugh at themselves to have security and confidence
If you can't laugh at yourself, then, as a result, others will do it for you.
@@themayqueen666 You've given yourself away there.
"its a bad sign not to be able to take a joke, even at your expense".....damn..every time i listen to JP, i feel like taking notes..who else?
Actually, my husband and I each have a notebook of notes. When they’re full, we thought it would be interesting to compare and see which notes we both took down and which one of us did not.
Me...too))) i am afraid of this phrase, but i am such a fan of JBP)) i have three, a chart in my phone, a bigger one for deeper things and research around them, like archetypes etc and a tiny pinky one for aphorisms.
every time!!!
NEVER TAKE NOTES DURING LECTURES!!!!!
@@tehalwest814 Is that a joke?
As a woman, one of the most attractive things to me in a man is a self-deprecating sense of humour. It indicates self-confidence, psychological stability, and intelligence.
I just wanted to say hello to you because you have the feminine version of my name. I also have the masculine version of your name. Hello!
@@scotchfillet big cringe
@@westp6530 that comment says more about you and less about me. How's that smuggling coming along?
@@scotchfillet it is coming along great, I get laid alot, but that relationship usually only lasts about 6 and a half seconds
As a woman you should stay in kitchen
I am almost positive that the fire in that fireplace was jump-started by a since-deceased dragon.
Tomi Adewole underrated comment
A smart person knows how dumb they are
Knows how smart they are*
@@camcamcamcamcamcamc that is dumb person dear friend
@@Peter-ie6po what
@@camcamcamcamcamcamc if you are smart then you know that you actually dont know anything
@@Peter-ie6po well no you're just aware that there is still much to learn lol
That sweater game tho...
yeah that sweater is fire
That's a cardigan, yo.
Cardigans...the preferred fashion of Mr. Rogers, Jordan Peterson, and...Kurt Cobain...?
@james phan Hell no. Pimps wear flamboyantly amazing trench coats with fur. Cardigans are for depressed people, or people who stopped caring (or both). Like George Costanza with his "draped in velvet" style; where you stop giving a damn, regardless of with a positive or negative connotation
Looks like Mr. ROGERS
Humor balances idealism with pragmatism.
I'm only good at fart jokes... How far up the dominance hierarchy will that get me?
Does your crap stink?
+Charles Granata
Let's just say that it's like releasing the father of all stink bombs from the belly of the beast!
Tony James Gilpin depends on your age. That gets boring and unoriginal around your teens
Tough to tell. But hot air rises!
Pretty high, if you eat enough beans.
Jordan 'dominance hierarchy' Peterson
Jordan 'broken inner child' Peterson
@@antiochiaadtaurum3786 Jordan "there are some interesting parallels to the old testament here" Peterson
Jordan “but what the hell do you know” Peterson
Jordan "roughly speaking" Peterson
Jordan 'hey' Peterson
"The Jester is the only person who can tell the truth." 🤗
✅
Whenever I make a joke, I realize I'm surrounded by tyrants.
@Prospect found the tyrant xD
@@awesomeSquirel 🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍
Personal jokes are often predicated by shortcomings recognized by others like tripping. The ability to laugh at your shortcomings is in and of itself a mechanism for improvement. In other words if you can’t take a personal joke, you’re essentially too arrogant to realize your own faults
I had an automatic faucet in my bathroom that my 2 cats learned to use. The first cat held her paw up to the sensor for a moment and starts to lap up the water before it disappears down the drain. The 2nd cat would sit on the rim of the sink right next to the faucet while the other cat was drinking. But the ONLY time cat #2 operated the auto-faucet, was when cat #1 put her head down to drink! A stream of water hit cat #1 squarely on the back of her head, every time!
Cat #1 would get angry and chase cat #2 out of the bathroom. While she tried to get another drink the 2nd cat sneaks back and splashes her again! This repeats 3 or 4 times until all the little sips added up to a proper drink.
I am convinced that they do have a sense of humor, at least for practical jokes!
It certainly shows their ability to plan ahead or see a chain of actions to a specific end. It's like the NOVA program Bird-Brains that amazed us with tool-using birds. And how about the Crows? Being able to pass down through several generations the information that allowed brand new crows to know that man wearing a certain mask was to be feared! We only win the #1 species on the Planet award, because we did the judging...
it sounds more like curiosity, provocation, testing, or even playing, not necessarily humour.
@@papi9305 Humour is playing
_WITH OUR PP_
People who take themselves so seriously are cut off from humor, i.e. extreme rightys, leftys, nearly everyone on social media...
I agree with that one both sides can be bad as each other when it comes to sense of humour failure.
Southies ? Yeah them too .....
I agree with Peterson. I just recognize myself a lot in this. Humor is seen as childish by many of my circle, but that is just not always the case. Having humor is attractive and helpful to even combat the tragedy of life
Pragmatic Entertainment Yea, but I wouldn't really try that one, hahaha
Pragmatic Entertainment Absolutely! Personally, I wouldn’t try that, but I HAVE seen people pull it off brilliantly.
only the strong can laugh at life.
those who are way too serious... are fragile, weak.
When I grow up I want to be able to use big words like Jordan
Then you would transcend upwards dialectically in the dominance hierarchy.😁
Kevin Ford use “bigly” instead 😁
@Kevin Ford You too ?? I'm so happy that I ran across your comment because I've been thinking the exact same thing for a while now and I was starting to think that I might be the only one who felt that way, until now that is 👍. I'd be elated just to be able to listen to him read his grocery list to me. I have no doubt that just by me listening to him read something as simple and as mundane as his very own actual grocery list, it would still be thought provoking, eloquent, educational, enlightening, and an extremely entertaining read that I probably would never be able to forget even if I tried 😁.
Be Blessed ~ Godspeed👆!!!
@@KRIS-sh8wp He's already married
I could listen to Dr. Peterson all the time, he is such a source of knowledge...
One of the greatest moments in my life was when I heard my son laugh for the first time when he was a baby. Of coarse he was laughing at me. Kind of glad it happened that way.
My husband and I had just moved into our 2 story house. I was upstairs when I saw the deck light from below turn on then off.
I quickly turned the light on again from the upstairs bedroom switch.
My husband turned the light off. Then I turned it on again. He turned it off.
Then I was laughing so hard and my husband heard me. Then he finally realized I was playing with him.
Ha, ha. We laughed and laughed.
The sweater is Lit.
Alejandro I love the sweater.
It is personal preference. A boyfriend high school bought me the ugliest sweater. I laughed about it....
I think of a true sense of humor as being able to laugh at oneself. It takes abstract and concrete humor to be able to accept what's amusing about ourselves. That can carry over into other parts of life to interfere with anger
Daughter, not 24 hours old, sneezed and smiled like a loon every time she did.
Neither Nazi Germany nor the Soviet Union managed to produce one successful comedian. FACT
Willhelm Berkly
"What's the deal with capitalism amiright comrades?"
There were great comedians in USSR, but they all were banned by the government. Not everyone in Soviet union were commies.
By definition, people in USSR who weren't commies were not products of USSR. They just happened to live in that country.
You're right, not everyone in the USSR were communists. Some of them were dead.
Beav
Why do you think he left?
Very true, "humor is the key to life". Noone can teach how to develop it, that is why the intellect is humors domain. But without tears, the heart goes dry.
There are levels of humor. Spite, schadenfreude, sarcasm is all pretty low but the laugh is loud and short lived and the higher one goes the quiter the laughter becomes. Irony, up there somewhere, would be the place where minds split. A child doesn't get irony/metaphors/poetry. There is also no beauty for a child - okay maybe its mother.
Oh, in higher humor the laughter also dies slower. Maybe there is also the funniest joke, we shall see...
Personal note: I have no preference in any kind of humor, as long as it is not forced and there is a balance in the world. I mean, one has to laugh when one has to laugh - whoever controls his emotions will never "laugh all laughs and cry all tears".
I can, when I fall down while running to fast and others see me fall, also stand up, laugh loudly in a fake way about myself and show everybody that I don't give a fuck about status. Then - afterwards, nothing happend.
There is always a third possibility.
That's so true!
I admire people who can laugh at their own short comings.
I want to be that person.
This is deep! Almost as deep as the fabric that binds his sweater together.
What I like about Peterson is that behind his seriousness in addressing the painful and destructive hazards for humankind, there is genuine warmth.
Genuine warmth like that of his very fine sweater.
It just showcases confidence. You trip and it doesn't bother you. Like nothing can reach you. It's like someone who receives terrible news and just smirks. Like wow, that guy is that strong and confident in that mysterious sort of way nothing gets to him. It shows strength and total control.
compare that to its opposite: someone who is so easily upset so easily offended they need to be in safe space all the time. Total absolute weakling.
he's playing with his wedding ring during the discourse ....the day he completely takes the ring off around me, i can die a happy man
I didn't expect to be complemented in this video, thx mr peterson
1 1/2 years later, and it's still new! WOW!
The best lauf it is when you said something and realize that people perceive your words from another wiew.
Some red wine in his hand would complete the setup 😂
The Chri
I hear you😂
what i can accuse dr Peterson of is that I can’t stop listening to him and I am behind in my work! Thank you for all, my kids introduced you to me and I keep sending your videos to my friends, we learn how to think properly AND how to communicate, your talks are so helpful on so many levels!
As Prof Peterson states, it is important to be able not to take ourselves too seriously, and, at times, laugh at ourselves, especially to laugh at ourselves while others are laughing at us. Humility is the the primal virtue isn't it?
If you don't get that you are imperfect, you will never get anything, and will always have to take everything.
Too bad we do not look for humility in others, particularly in those whom we let lead.
Worse yest, we disdain humility in others, often calling it fake virtue or even weakness. We dismiss the most important byproduct of humility - graciousness.
Without humility, the next primal virtue - prudence - is impossible. And so it goes....
I noticed nowadays there seems to be a trend of people having a more sadistic sense of humor especially the younger ones ... has anybody else noticed this ?
@@gardensofthegods perhaps this is the result of the conditioning that comes from decade on end of unending, falsely initiated, and urban-based wars where we could don't even consider the toll on our generation of our soldier, or the terrible price indigenous people have payed and continue to pay.
Maybe its the types of recreation popular today, like hours of spent alone or with others on computerized wargames, Grand Theft Auto, pornography, interactive ad hominem social media.
Maybe its how you and and I can look at one another and believe, as the pro-lifers do, that somebody had a "choice" or worse a "right" that you or I didn't need to be here, because at some both from our creation, were less that "tissue" that belonged to someone else.
I don't know that people's humor are any ore or less sadistic now than they were in that last several centuries. I only see people today, what they do, what they believe in, and how they treat one another.
I only see a few noble beings, and as I said four years ago, they are noble in the humblest of ways.
Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.
@@JoeCiliberto Very nicely put .
I remember back around 2016 putting on my Facebook stuff about stopping the human sacrifice ... and the Never Ending War ... that and other things I was say got me in trouble with Facebook and shortly at there after they wiped out everything I had there .
Yes all of those things that you talked about have all gone into making people the way they are today .
Personally I can't stand this era we're living in and wish I could turn back the clock .
Sure people were statistic in other ages also for example Spanish Inquisition burning people at the stake and whatnot .
It's just that here in 2022 people don't seem to have really advanced much ... it's the technology that has ...
We think we're smarter and more compassionate but I do feel a lot of the younger people have a more sadistic attitude , yes .
Yes I know that poem from St Francis and we used to sing it a long time ago when I was in the choir .
We can only each try to do our best .
@@gardensofthegods I suppose it is true that every age has their share of moral and ethical failures.
If we look back, we must see how they were overcome their own, or in subsequent generations.
As you say, this age, I'll call it the age of great speed and broad propagation of shared opinions, is lost, until it learns to deny itself that addiction; 360 degree self-gratification.
We in the west lament that China does not have an open internet.
What have we done with ours?
We defend a free press but our press is bought and paid for in its pursuit of advertising and other revenues. Yet we dial in every moment we can, on side or the other.
We live in a democratic republic led by a Government the people vote for that is anything but representative of the people. Yet we line up on one side or the other, when neither gives a damn about us.
We continue to lose our share of the world's manufacturing capacity in all areas of industry. Yet America appetitive for the things they want, goes insatiate.
Each job lost contributes to a decline in the quality of America life, as well as a correlating increase in overall adversarial power. The profits made go into weapons systems aimed at us.
We educate or world and the world despises us. Yet we fail to educate our own except to award them BS degrees and rob them of financial freedom.
I wish I saw a more moves in the right direction. But, here are very few.
@@JoeCiliberto I know . It's depressing . Maybe that's why a lot of the younger people seem to have a sadistic sense of humor because a lot of them really don't see much of a future and they know that they will never be able to afford even thinking about ever owning or mortgaging a house .
Yeah college for a lot of us was a big racket ... student loan debt .
The age of I can't remember how you worded it but it was pretty good .
Well in their lifetime they might be cured of that addiction if we get hit with coronal mass injection ( solar flare ) will render all electricity useless on half the planet and we have been overdue for it for a while .
A lot of people wouldn't be able to survive w/o internet ... I would miss it but it came along when I was already an adult .
You know how you thought it's not just because of supply chain problems everything is so expensive suddenly and you suspected corporate greed ?
Last week CBS Sunday Morning to the piece are corporations making inflation worse .
They found out yesterday corporations have doubled their profits . DOUBLED .
Not only do they not care about people ... they REALLY DO NOT CARE .
When my daughter was too little, her mother used to spend the whole day at home looking after her while I was working. Once, she told me moved that she had a difficult day and, in a moment, sat down disappointed on the porch floor, resting the head on the arms with hands under chin, because the girl was refusing to do anything. At that moment, my daughter smiling approached her mother, pulled her hands from the chin and pushed the sides of her mouth trying to make her a smile.
Such a sweet kind girl.
I have a hypothesis on humor in which humor, as expressed in humans, is a further development of PLAY, a subset of play. I found it to be much easier to understand humor as a phenomenon in that context. Also, JP's take on one's ability to "take a joke" seems spot on.
Archangel Lucifer Interesting... can u elaborate? (I’m the interviewer in this clip)
Oh, god, I could do so much more if I wasn't so damn lazy...lol The rationale behind it is that everything new that comes along in evolutionary sense has to be based on something that was before, something more general that then produces something more specific.
Why play? Well, there is a connection between humor and play, I realized, in which one contains the other but not the other way around, which reveals likely ancestral relationship. There is an element of play in humor - one plays with different relationships between things, words, in a non-serious way, and this "play of concepts", on one level (it's a multi-layered phenomenon), produces joy, rhythmic contractions of the diaphragm and so on. But play, as exemplified by for instance two cubs of some mammalian species, does not contain humor, because the cubs don't laugh. But it does contain the same element of non-seriousness as humor, something without which the whole situation would be perhaps a fight to the death in the case of the cubs, or a display of inferiority and stupidity, not to mention verbal aggression in the case of humor.
That is why humans have to pay close attention when and with whom to engage in humor - the other person has to agree to PLAY. If not then - you will be perceived as an asshole, or worse.
That's the short version. Some of the other aspects are on my dusty old channel titled "Psychology of Humor" in the video and continues in the comments below.
Archangel Lucifer I’m of course with you 100% on the notion of evolution as a (form-and-function-)conservative process, so yes I totally see genealogical traces of play in humour, if you will. ... But where does the next ‘level’ or stratum come from that makes things genuinely ‘funny’? Still seems mysterious to me and I’ve always wondered why!
Transliminal So have I. It becomes less mysterious when one sees it in the light of s.c. Superiority theory of humor. Jordan's view, as far as I can see, is very similar to my own, i.e. he talks about humor as a way to advance in the human dominance hierarchy and mine is a juxtaposition of dominance and submission, superiority and inferiority inherent both to play AND humor. The "funny" part, in my view, comes from a feeling of "being-better-than", "being-superior-to" different people and things, including (thanks to our ability for abstract thought) being superior even to yourself - which is not your real Self - but an image, a caricature of you that you create when you're making fun of yourself for example.
Nietzsche defined happiness as a feeling that one's power is rising, that something has been overcome by you - I took it from there and made the connection that people who laugh are happy, laughter is an expression of humor, humor is an expression of play and play is a non-serious (thus SAFE) expression of dominance and submission. A real expression of dominance can get one killed if one fails, but play - lets one "test the waters" without serious consequences.
Edit: What I still don't understand is why people laugh, in the way that they do? The physiological aspect, I mean. Why laughter looks the way it does?
Dejan laughter is the communication from the viewer to the joke maker that they understood it was a joke and nothing threatening or meant to be taken seriously. simple as that..
I saw my very own grandson start his sense of humor at 2 months of age... it was in full force at 4 months!!!...
He is now 4 years , and he is still using it, all day, everyday.
Laughing does not necessarily mean that a baby has a sense of humor, they have to be able to understand even a simple joke to call it humor, but a 2 month or 4-month-old baby has no capacity to get a joke.
I think that humor is just making connections in the mind which are ready to be made but are not previously made.
Truth is dangerous this is why it's wrapped in humor as an atonement
Just when I think this guys full of hot air, he comes up with something wonderful.
Never thought I'd be getting stand up advice from Jordan Peterson, but I'm not complaining :-)
People who can never laugh are scary and cowardly.
What do you mean? I have experienced depression but it is not nearly as bad as it was 8 years ago. Do you suffer from depression? I try to be honest about feeling.
With me I still laugh even when I'm extremely depressed, but it's mostly about trying to feel happy as opposed to doing it. I feel like people can laugh socially when they aren't enjoying themselves as a kind of "fake it till you make it", so I'm sure there are people other than me who instead of pretending to be slaphappy just kind of give up on trying it.
Or just plain stupid..
Or somewhere on the spectrum
I sure don't mean being pretentious. Phoniness is not the answer. I am the kind of person for whom love is very important. I have to have some meaningful relationships in life. It is too overwhelming to try and do things with no one to share my heart with and talk with. Trusting that God really loves us and prayer is the best thing. That way I get beyond my own feelings and am no longer so dependent on the way others treat me. When someone we are close to really mistreats us and refuses to deal with it head on the sense of isolation is overwhelming. I don't deny our need for each other, and for intimacy. But to look beyond that in heart to heart relationship with the Lord sets us free from self imprisonment.
"My room appears clean as I've chosen not to recognise the chaos, instead I distract myself calling out patriatchy on 'social media' and am above it all!" Said the lefty feminist, as she sat alone with her anger, as a loving couple passed by in the distance, "suckers" she sighed!
Masterfull poetry.....
ya everyone personally deals with this in highschool, the person that is funny always gets away with the most and get more and has fun doing it
Its the ability to shed your ego... my 50c.
My kid starting making jokes at like 14 months. Faking things, saying the wrong thing on purpose and then laughing. Infants can be absolutely hysterical, and they know it.
thank you so much!!!!
Comedy is one of the most special things that we have.
A lot of people when they do mistakes but they have a good sense of humor all time and loved by that so they get told nothing,but the ones who don't have any sense of humor when they make mistakes are getting treated badly
This is something I struggled with for years. I always been told "learn to take a joke" or "its a joke calm down" and I would got mad hearing that all the time. But deep down I think I was just deeply insecure about myself and I'm tried to find out way am I so scared? Why am I so insecure. Then I remember watching another video saying "just accept your insecurities, own it" and I'm on a tippling scale to accept it or not. I had a cousin of mine who had a sense of humor and he would laugh at himself, and he had more friends I had. Nobody seem to bully him but they bullied me. How does one accept themselves even if they're not perfect and find humor in it?
try laughing at mundane things people do to you as a joke. like when if someone skips you in a line in public and then look at you and smile and say just kidding, you have to smile at them back or give a chuckle. start from there.
Yeah really good question accept yourself and do what seems funny to you not them. They will laugh you will see man
they sound like terrible people to be around
The transcendence that J. Peterson is talking here is well written about in Michael Singer's book "The Untethered Soul". I recommend that book to anyone interested in learning about that part of yourself.
I'm watching comments under JD's videos to like every joke about cleaning your room.
That reminds me of a nice german joke: Some interviewer visited an old, wise guy and asked him the question, how he got into this "state of bliss". His answer: "Don´t drink, don´t have sex, NO women, NO drugs, NO greed for the almighty $, NO fast cars; j u s t m e d i t a t e." The interviewer finally asks: "And THAT was worth it " ?
LOVE THIS ONE
Jordan Peterson is probably one of the smartest men I’ve ever heard speak
My toddler niece keeps making up stories/statements and observes if people around her laugh. If they do, she'll tell it all over again.
wish i had a voice like the host..superb voice
I was at the poker table the other day and had just smoked a bunch of weed so I was a little more gregarious than normal. A waitress told me next I'd be jumping on my chair, in reference to Tom Cruise perhaps. It's a sjw Haven so I've gotten flack from people for having balls there before but instead of getting offended, I laughed (it was funny after all) and tipped her for the joke. I could have misread her but she seemed a little surprised. I don't know if she was surprised I tipped her or that I wasn't offended but this video helped me analyse better and he's right, the more you let petty shit roll off your back, the more respect you tend to get.
This man should be required study for anyone in the top 5 percent for intelligence.
It has been said, Laughter is the best medicine; however, not everyone appreciates it. I do believe it can relieve stress and make people feel more comfortable and at ease. Especially when you're facing some sad situations... also you have to ask yourself would I rather be crying about this situation or laughing about it? Most people would rather laugh then sulk.
I wonder how insightful Cosby really was about his life?
That was super profound and enlightening.
If you want to break some ice, nothing works better than a cigarette. Just hold it, as if you want to smoke it, and "anybody" wishing to interact with you, will have an excuse. I've never been a smoker, but I invented that many years ago, when smoking went on everywhere, so I could go up to a girl/woman, and ask if she had a light, and no matter her answer, I'd just say: "No thanks, I don't smoke. It was just to break the ice." They would laugh, we would talk - probl soved - Never let me down.!
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Being silly-funny doesn't make you high status. The reason humour makes you high status if not because it shows you're funny, but because it shows you're clever and capable of thinking outside the box. THAT's why humour makes you high status.
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Absolutely brilliant.
Writing, one dimensional in a line; Painting, two dimensional on a plane; Sculpture, three dimensions as are our bodies; [dance here] Music, four dimensions moving in time; Humor, five dimensional, a preparation constructed for delivery..... to cause a moment when the mind grasps it all at once. Comedians are generally super smart; George Carlin. Dumb comedians don't last very long; Amy Schumer.
So Cal Bee Guy Technically music is 2-dimenaional. Sort of. It's a 1d signal over time. I know things.
Oh. So, what do you mean by 1d signal? I was thinking of vibrations in 3d space over time.
ok, I guess that works. I was thinking this: an audio signal can be stored on a computer as a a sine wave that changes frequency (pitch of sound) and amplitude (loudness). So that's like the essence of audio.
also I'd say writing is also 2d, like painting.
lol I know this is totally besides the point of what u were saying
although, I can see arguments for writing being a 1d signal. The way your brain interprets the writing-it takes it from the 2d painig form- then processes it to be like a 1d signal where you have characters changing over time. And then it processes further and you have words over time, that would also be 1d. Sorry, sound is just 1d, i dunno why i said 2d at some point
I'm from India and live 250 km from delhi.i'm 28 and love to see little kids respond to absurdism.
There's this kid (4 year old), who lives in the apartment besides mines.he's a good friend.one day he was sitting on a rocking chair we have in the drawing room.i entered the house and saw him.he saw me.then he started rocking the chair back and forth without breaking eye contact.
I asked him (in hindi of course)
" did you buy the ticket ?"
He immediately started laughing.i was like okay.that's cool.
That reminds me of a nice german joke: Some interviewer visited an old, wise guy and asked him the question, how he got into this "state of bliss". His answer: "Don´t drink, don´t have sex, NO women, NO drugs, NO greed for the almighty $, NO fast cars; j u s t m e d i t a t e." The interviewer finally asks: "And THAT was worth it " ?
In other words, "comedy's serious business, bucko!"
For anybody curious, the comedian charged by the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal was Mike Ward. He's a tremendous comedian. I remember hearing one of his bits on TV when I was 12, and it felt like a revelation. I couldn't believe how funny he was, while simultaneously being clairvoyant about harsh world realities. Peterson really nails it on the head with his description of the trickster figure!
Great Video
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I have remarked concerning ducks swimming in a pond to someone that when ducks are quacking,.............their actually laughing telling each other human jokes. He didn't quite look at ducks the same way again. Just having a good laugh at ourselves now & again.
Laughter is simply submission to threat. Nothing more. Humour is threat and domination, and the one who laughs submits to the power of the joker.
@Foxtrot People like jokes because they live in repressed fear of demons, and laughing releases the stress related to that perpetual fear, and at the same time it is a sign of submission to the devils. When a person is mature and strong, having integrated the shadow, he doesn't laugh at jokes. Jokers, clowns and bullshit artists are devils that the ordinary man can handle and see clearly, and have a therapeutic role for the mortal men. But a grown up man, doesn't laugh at jokes, and only smiles at that which is pure and holy, and never to blasphemy, which is actually what a joke is - blasphemy, and devilish. I will laugh the day the world is liberated from the satanic overlords, until then I don't laugh.
But the joker is laughing too
@@fjodortorso4208 Thats right,. The mature doesnt laugh because he is amusing h i m s e l f pretty well (for instance an artist) and needs no others to bring him any fun he does not want. He only s m i l e s like a Buddha. . .
Thats not funny at all.
Jp said said he saw bill Cosby 30 years ago in Edmonton. I am now wondering if bill gave him that sweater he is wearing
When does being able to take a joke become being unable to stand up for yourself though?
My instinct is it depends on the relevance, repetition and how it makes me feel.
@@johnconstantine2639 your right. I have a tendency at times to take a joke to far. But the grey rock approach tends to work, if the victim acts boring silent and for all purposes like a grey rock in personality, you get bored and give up, and look and feel socially inept to all others viewing this interaction...
JBP - The best of us!
Interesting conversation, I wish I could see who Jordan is speaking with though ...
In my experience with peers, not instructors, Know-it-alls who don't give off the vibe they are one, and downplay their expertise with humility and can make jokes at their own lack of dire seriousness, make the best know-it-alls that people like hearing about new things from, because they aren't threatened and are disarmed by their informal self-comfort.
Many years ago, before it was considered un-cool; only kinda weird, I was a professional clown, and when I was in my learning phase I had heard that there were times when the "Jester" or "Fool" was often the brightest one in the King's (/Queen's) Court. It was told to me that there had been countries who didn't go to war because their Fools had pointed out how wise it wuld be then go on to list the worse case scenerios humorously.
This is why narcissists and sociopaths become deeply angry when something happens that they might receive laughter from, or that rattles their sense of self-perfection. God I hate those people.
i pity them. they have their heads so far up their own arse they can't even tell the difference anymore.
good to see at least 5 min can go by without fiddling with the wedding ring
How brave to drop Bill Cosbys name. JP all over. Love the man. Love him. From 🇮🇪
Absolute smitten by someone. they have rejected me 1 year ago, now working the same place, had ideas to say along this to relieve the tension. but just could not get them out.
I swear my dog has a sense of humor. I once missed a chair as I tried to sit down and she perked up and her tail started wagging like mad!
Peterson is not only a Brian icon but is also style guru. He should talk about his clothing sometime...
His wife dresses him
He is doing the professor thing. I am so fascinated by his language skills that I hardly notice.
MrJamberee I notice everything about him. He's intriguing.
MrJamberee Have you ever watched him walk back and forth on a stage? He is elegant in stature and speech.
He's paying homage to Mr. Rogers... who was swagtastic.
Love the Bowen Boshier Boabab pencil drawing.
"What do you suppose is the state of the young man's heart?" Plato “But WHEN do the biggest sophists turn out young and old, men & women, JUST the way they want them to be?" Glaucon asks. Socrates: “When many gathered together sit down in assemblies, courts, theaters, army camps, or any other common meeting of a multitude, and with a great deal of uproar, blame some of the things said or done, and praise others, both in excess, shouting and clapping; and, besides, the rocks and the very place surrounding them echo and redouble the uproar of blame and praise.
"Now in such circumstances, as the saying goes, what do you suppose is the state of the young man’s heart? Or what kind of private education will hold out for him and not be swept away by such blame and praise and go, borne by the flood, wherever it tends, so that he’ll say the same things are noble and base as they do, practice what they practice, and be such as they are?”
(Plato’s Republic, tr. Bloom, 492A)
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This is a great explanation of why it worries me that people are going after Lewis C.K.
He's the jester who says things no one else dare say; what happens when you silence the jesters, the last people who say anything and everything?
Okay, I'll delete my comment, sheehs. It's not like it got any likes anyway.
It's a byproduct of an "black and white", or "all good or all bad" mindset that alot of people have. It's the same as when children approach the age that they begin to realize theyre parents arent without flaws, and (ideally) eventually realize theres no good that exists without bad and vice versa...
Its been so commonplace in the last few decades to deify celebritys (just as most tend to do with theyre parents during early childhood), and subsequently, when the idol falls short of the perceived (and unrealistic) imposed standard, most will resort to defense mechanisms such as rejecting the entirety of that particular person as well as creative output. It's like hearing a bunch of emotionally immature 12 year olds mumbling "I hate my dad".
I'm sure there is more to it from a psychological veiwpoint of course, but eh, who cares, really...
Nobody Asked Me I love this analysis, thank you.
Pyagrl*16 Of course, you're welcome
I will add that the constant need for levity signifies immaturity.
some people are just more light hearted in their nature than others..
NOT necessarily my friend. Just read the "levity of being" by Milan Kundera. It was a kind of vademecum for the Czech folks in the hard years during the time of the russian regime . . .
Humor is a responce to our weakness, our fallibility, DEATH. We make jokes to save ourselves from the dispair of Knowing life is short, we will die.
I think that the book "The Queen's fool" is a good example of what he was saying about the jester being able to tell the truth