Jordan Peterson (The motvational speaker for deep thinkers)

Published by daledawn on February 4, 2020

Jordan Bernt Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist, professor of
psychology at the University of Toronto, author. Jordan earned his
double B.A. from University of Alberta, Peterson obtained his Ph.D.
in clinical psychology from McGill University.

After remaining at McGill for couple of years as post-doctoral fellow
he served psychology department of Harvard University as assistant
and then associate professor. He then returned to Canada to serve as
full professor at University of Toronto. Primary areas of his studies
include social, personality and abnormal psychology.

He gives a unique message to psychology of religious and ideological
belief and evaluation and betterment of personality and performance.
His work received support from agencies like Canadian Institute for
Health Research and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research
Councils of Canada.

An author and co-author of over hundred academic papers, Peterson
published two books ‘Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief’ and
‘12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos’. He appears frequently as
essayist and guest panellist in the popular TV Ontario current affairs
program ‘The Agenda’ and has garnered decent presence online.

He attracted international media attention after censuring political
correctness and the Canadian government’s Bill C-16 through a
series of videos.

To say Gordon Peterson is one of the deepest thinkers I have ever
heard would be a major understatement.

You will either love him, or note. He is an academic not really an
entrepreneur, but he has a deep awareness of what makes us
perform as humans.

Jordan Peterson’s Career

• He conducted research as also taught in the psychology department
  at the Harvard University in the capacity of an assistant and an
  associate professor from July 1993 till June 1998. He examined
  aggression spurted from substance abuse and overlooked several
  unconventional thesis proposals. There he received nomination for
  the Levenson Teaching Prize in 1998.

• He went back to Canada in July 1998 where he started working as
  a full professor at the University of Toronto, a post he holds till present.

• The fields of his study and research includes creativity, political,
  religious, ideological, industrial and organizational, social, clinical,
  neuro, abnormal, and personality psychology and psychopharmacology.
  Over the years he wrote and co-wrote over hundred academic papers.

• In 1999 he came up with a book titled ‘Maps of Meaning: The
  Architecture of Belief’ published by Routledge. He penned down
  the book in an attempt to “explain the meaning of history”. The book
  where he briefly reflected on his childhood and upbringing in a
  Christian family took him more than 13 years to complete.

• In ‘Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief’ Peterson elucidates
  an extensive theory on the way meanings and beliefs are constructed
  by people and on how they make narratives applying concepts from
  different fields like psychology , religion, mythology, philosophy and
  literature that are in conformity with the modern scientific
  understanding of the way the brain works.

• The classroom lectures of Peterson on psychology and mythology
  based on his book ‘Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief’ were
  made into a 13-part TV series that was aired on TVOntario in 2004.
  His other pursuits with the network includes appearing frequently
  as guest panellist and essayist on the popular current affairs
  program ‘The Agenda’ starting from 2008 as also featuring on the
  series ‘Big Ideas’ that showcases public intellectual culture.

• He has also thrived in garnering decent recognition online. His You
  Tube channel ‘JordanPetersonVideos’ that he created on March 29,
  2013, and features his university and public lectures and interviews
  with people among other things have already amassed over 1
  million subscribers and more than 52 million views. His clips
  YouTube channel for shorter videos ‘Jordan B Peterson Clips’
  that he created on June 14, 2017, has also accumulated over
  66 K subscribers and more than 3.3 million views.

• He along with his colleagues came up with two online assessment
  programs, ‘Self Authoring Suite’ and ‘UnderstandMyself’, that aid
  one to analyse and understand his/her personality and better
  one’s life.
• Since September 2016, he posted a number of videos on his
  YouTube channel criticizing political correctness and the Canadian
  government’s Bill C-16. Such move of Peterson was censured by
  many including transgender activists, critics, faculty and labor
  unions leading to protests including some violent ones thereby
  creating controversy and attracting worldwide media attention.
  He also received two warning letters from academic administrators
  at the University of Toronto.