>The other day I came across an innocuously titled Word document Dr. Jordan B. Peterson crafted to help his students write essays. It was linked from a thread in /r/jordanpeterson, but can be found on the web with little effort.
>As I read through the document, I was blown away. In all my experience over the past decade working and studying in English departments, JBP’s guide contains the most useful, practical advice on essay writing I’ve ever come across. Not only that, I was staggered by how casually he delivers deep wisdom and profound psychological insights.
>JBP points out that essay writing is more than just a thing to do get grades in college. It’s a practical method for clarifying your thinking and learning to articulate yourself.
>This planet needs people (especially men) who are not only willing to enter into the chaotic fray of beliefs and ideologies, but who have the skill to articulate what matters most to them at all costs. At least this isa skill I’m trying to personally develop. So I reposted the entire guide below to bring his method some visibility, and in the hopes that others might find it helpful.
I don't even like Peterson much but I appreciate this type of thing. Thanks for your post desu.
Benjamin Johnson
Thanks, user. I've been looking for this.
Alexander Williams
The Peterson hero worship has to end. Not everything he has to say needs to be worthwhile.
>he gets 40k a month on patreon
The man is an entertainer for god's sake.
Nathan Sanchez
Heroes need better antagonists than you.
Nathan Jenkins
Sorthammer 40K: in the grim darkness of the near future there is only room-cleaning
>srsly can we get a 40K/Peterson meme
Adrian Hughes
holy fuck are you serious?
Andrew Long
I was making a joke, but it does have an eerie point to it.
Jordan Ross
this man is a warrior
>plans to curate a series of conversations with moderate Muslims about the possibility of developing a bridge between that faith and the fundamental beliefs of the West >wants to do a series on the 100 greatest books of Western civilization >would very much like to blow up the entire concept of a university
>You might think that there could not possibly be anything more to an essay than these five levels of resolution or analysis, but you would be wrong. This is something that was first noticed, perhaps, by those otherwise entirely reprehensible and destructive scholars known as post-modernists. Gee you think he could put aside his own prejudices for at least a minute. His convictions are strong, but to a point of consistency or obstinacy?
Robert Adams
necessary for what?
to pacify degenerate neckeards who get triggered by tumblrina's?
get out more
how can you take someone seriously who takes jung seriously?
Liam Wright
Peterson was a strange phenomenon for me. He popped up right as I was wondering where the damn post-jungians are and expressed the same things I thought in a fashion that was just what I was looking for and for problems very relevant to me. A Dosto fan, biblical symbolist, post-existentialist, anti-postmodernist and all. Felt like synchronicity.
Logan Young
I'm saying it's inevitable someone like him exists. He helps neckbeards too, which is good, but he also acts as a cogent voice against the academic and cyber post-modern zeitgeist. And he brigns a psychological and crypto-mystical method to mainstream minds that overdue.
Samuel Smith
[SHILL WARNING] This is a stepping stone into Peterson's paid "Self Authoring" program where you write for fifteen mins on your fears, 15 mins on your aspirations,15 on sth else. You basically pay for ten writing prompts [/SHILL WARNING]
>This planet needs people (especially men) Wow okay shitlord
Asher Murphy
>The pen is mightier than the sword, as the saying goes. This is no cheap cliché. Ideas change the world, particularly when they are written. The Romans built buildings, and the Romans and the buildings are both gone. The Jews wrote a book, and they are still here, and so is the book. So it turns out that words may well last longer than stone, and have more impact than whole empires. really activated my almonds
Adam Anderson
Haha, wow, what a load of pseud horseshit. The Roman church institutions still exist (funny how he forgets that with his wanking over the Bible), some Roman roads have been continually in use since they were made, Roman buildings still stand, and classical Roman writings have been preserved and are read today. Nevermind that they set the course of Mediterranean and European history, Peterson thinks they just vanished.
>But he meant it symbolically! Yeah, he can take his Jungian symbolism and shove it up the archetype of his ass.
Angel Gomez
>reddit spacing kill yourself
James Anderson
>the fucking scammy link to scribd
Here is the pdf: jordanbpeterson.com/docs/430_docs/Template.docx
Easton Davis
>he's still a po-modrone
William Gomez
There is reddit spacing?
Adrian Ross
>rewrite an essay 6 times What is this garbage
Gavin Miller
>itt people who never read Jung pretending they are even remotely qualified to have an opinion on Peterson faggots
Jaxson Long
Most good professors recommend that you rewrite an essay at least four times. Although the amount of sources he insist one have is crazy. >Fucking five books or articles per 1000 words
Connor Adams
If you want your essays to have any merit whatsoever 5 sources per 1000 is minimum. Otherwise your stuff is pretty much only fit for a shredder after you get your grade with it. Nobody cares about your personal musings, those are literary high school level
Dominic Perez
I'll have to keep that in mind then.
Charles Jenkins
Fuck off Peterson
Sebastian Powell
>>Fucking five books or articles per 1000 words Have you heard him speak to his students?
". . . and what the hell do you know about life? You're in university, for God's sake. Sure, you can probably mumble a few lines of someone else's thoughts, but you don't even know who you are yet. . . "
I'm not surprised he makes them cite so many people. He thinks students are incapable of forming their own valid ideas. And he is probably right.
Isaiah Lopez
Thank you
Leo Nelson
>Nobody cares about your personal musings, those are literary high school level
It's the other way around.
High school = read what other people said about something and summarize it
College = do original textual analysis thinking for yourself
Kevin Evans
No, it is not. In high school you just learn the absolute basics, you scribble some bullshit and turn it in. In college you need to learn to think, and you do that by research and study. If you don't give sources you are not learning anything. You need to learn how others think, and position yourself within that framework. Personal undergraduate musings are only fit for the shredder.
The time for personal musings that perhaps might have some merit is after you graduate.
Carter Barnes
>Anyone can form his own valid ideas without reading great people If this is the kind of insight you are able to produce, you are proving that you are unable of having valid ideas.
Jaxson Walker
t. buttmad liberal arts student whose delusions of grandeur got severely attacked in this thread
Aiden Campbell
What? I am STEM guy who likes reading great book. I know how inadequate I am compared to the masters.
Mason Barnes
>a STEM guy
why don't you be more honest and just say comp sci
Eli Bell
Nope, electrical engineering. Try again projecting your insecurities, you're doing great.
James Diaz
so I wasn't far off I love how physicists and mathematicians never actually say "I'm a STEM guy", it's always engineers and comp sci students
Samuel Baker
Jordan Peterson is a completely Literally Who outside of this website. His shitty gypsy face always leaves me like "meh". But I'm so glad there are people who waste their time on such a hack. I laugh at them desu.
Matthew Morris
>electrical engineering >close to compsci What the hell are you talking about? Try studying data structures then go back to Maxwell's equations, see how close they are to each others.
Nevertheless, it is true that physicists and mathematicians do not like to be put in the same group as engineers and compsci guys because theoretical science do not like empricism, because practice is messy. Example: a mathematician will keep pi as a transcendental number whereas an engineer will approximate it to ten digits.
Benjamin Cox
>Literally Who
Damn, didn't know he was that big. But I guess it makes sense, he gets half a mil a year on patreon alone
Brandon Baker
Dude, why are you so pseud. Your example of "hard" is a set of easy 4 differential equations, and you go on this meme example of approximating pie to 10 digits. Take it easy, brainlet.
Christopher Lopez
I was not pointing out that there were difficult, just different from data structures (i.e. basic stuff in compsci). You should really learn to READ.
Juan Howard
You, and some other people ITT, do you seriously think no one noticed? Your have a typing style and humour of a pseudointellectual redditor vermin subscribed to r/JordanPeterson who yet comes here because reddit is "le leftist shithole," and because this is THAT epic Veeky Forums, the one you know so much about from r/Veeky Forums and their EPIC FUNNEH SCREENSHOTS, no cultural marxists here I can tell ya. But you don't really blend in. Sam Harris fans learned this and hopefully you will too. You are an abortion between a typical obnoxiously zany redditor and one month old btard. Go back. Don't return.
Chase Wright
bro, go easy on the autistic rage
Nathaniel Mitchell
>>JBP points out that essay writing is more than just a thing to do get grades in college. It’s a practical method for clarifying your thinking and learning to articulate yourself.
>writing essay >rapidly become obsessed with muh prose >meticulously self-edit individual sentences ten different ways, comparing each with the other to select the very best one >three hours go by >have one paragraph >read it the next day >it's shit
Thomas Rogers
No. I'm not saying you cite nothing, but as you say "you have to learn to think" and as you also say "you do that by research and study" but also reflection and analysis. If you need to learn to think, then logically, in essays you have to demonstrate that you have learned to think, and not just that you can position yourself within someone else's framework.
Logan Green
Why are left-wingers so retarded?
Cameron Morales
retarded people are retarded. for every moronic tumblrina there's an equally stupid autistic frogposter
Elijah Wright
Frog posters don't control academia.
Hudson Ross
k? stefan would be disappointed in you
Levi Myers
narcissism
Blake Reed
I really like Jordan Peterson.
Jason Anderson
I'm not sure "the left" even exists anymore.
americans seem to think idendity politics and center-right politics is "left-wing".
flogging a dead horse desu
Tyler Johnson
Things change. Nationalism would have at one time been considered left-wing. Now it is considered hard right, meanwhile left-wingers tend to push globalism in one form or another. Identity politics, particularly in terms of nations having borders, are a facet of this.
Jacob Brown
this is what frogposters actually think
Kayden Russell
>le college teaches you how to think meme
Leo Collins
>everyone I disagree with posts frog memes
Isaiah Bell
>This planet needs people (especially men) who are not only willing to enter into the chaotic fray of beliefs and ideologies, but who have the skill to articulate what matters most to them at all costs.
Why is it every time I hear about this guy I feel like it is from some identity obsessed numale who reads self-help books about how he should be riding tigers?
Jaxon Turner
>muh frogposting boogeyman
Luke Cooper
Clean your room.
Liam Howard
I'm going too my dude, today is reorganizing day. Gonna get some sweet new shelves for my bookz.
Justin Richardson
...
Ian Anderson
It's what it's supposed to do. Compare how you were academically in high school and in college and you will see a vast difference - if you choose a good major of course. At the very least it teaches you how to learn.
Christian Hall
It is supposed to do but it doesnt, if you dont't read things that are outside of what college gives you or you just "think" when you are "supposed" to do, you end up being an semi-knowledgeable idiot, with no original insight at all who thinks "wow now I'm educated now I understand how everything works" I'm not saying superior education is worthless or anything like that, but spreading the notion that "college teaches you how to think" only creates smugness and stupidity
James Rivera
>(especially men)
Ethan Ramirez
Women already get everything they want.
Ethan Lopez
blanket statements: the thread
Isaiah Smith
Oh cute he's fooling people he knows anything about writing too now
Josiah King
he specified how he uses that money in his recent podcast, he literally used all of the patreon money for hiring the museum hes doing the biblical series on and the camera, which totaled to like 30k usd
Eli Howard
>Trust me goyim, its all going to a good cause I swear ;^)
he's going on a rampage right now on twitter btw gents
Brody Ward
>progressives calling other people "numales"
James Anderson
Oh woah, thank you great master for permitting me not to give you free money
Isaiah Butler
>I use progressive as an insult
Hudson Smith
you are forgiven my son, go in peace
Angel Smith
very funny but actually i completely disagree with him regarding jews and antisemitism, either he is completely blind towards the eternal jew or he is low-brow redpilling people into the truth about kikes
Parker Edwards
wow he's a typical old man trying to assimilate with a younger crowd