Episode Transcript: #1769 - Jordan Peterson
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That's state of intense concentration on that before you can really manage it.
I think there's mental endurance involved too because I think that we have I think there's
mental endurance that comes with anything that you do on a day to day basis whether it's
writing whether it's doing podcasts whether it's doing stand-up comedy I think anything
we have to think and manage like complex ideas and manipulate your language and your
the way you're speaking and and be able to engage in the dance between two people I think
got to do it all the time I think if you just do it every now and again like especially
if you took time off of speaking to people like if you hadn't talked to anybody in a
long time and then you talk if you ever done that we haven't talked to anybody in a long
time then you talk to them it feels odd feels awkward because I think there's like a thing
where you have to get used to it you gotta get used to it.
I found that was particularly the case with the podcasts is that it's hard to do that
sporadically yeah you also lose that rhythm of preparation because you get it well I did I'm
not sure how do you prepare for your podcast like if you have an author come on I usually
read their book it depends on with it like I'm on I have two books that I'm reading right now
that are future people that are coming in February so there are a lot ahead yeah they'll be well you
know it's like one of them is a climate change book and it's it's intense and so it's requiring a
lot of thinking and then I have to like look at the criticisms of this guy and criticisms of the
work and you know you know who believes that in 10 years Miami's gonna be underwater who believes
that this is probably hyperbole and that it's a gross exaggeration and the reality is you know