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Just letting you know that I downvoted you not because of the advice - which is pretty good - but because of the link to Jordan Peterson, who is generally a pre
by throwaway1280 5y ago
Just letting you know that I downvoted you not because of the advice - which is pretty good - but because of the link to Jordan Peterson, who is generally a pretty nasty pseudo-intellectual piece of work.
- d0gsg0w00f 5y agoThank you for your opinion. I figured a lot of people would have mixed feelings about him but I wanted to give credit to where the advice was coming from. Personally, I've gotten a lot of value from his work.
- throwanem 5y agoWith enough of a benzo habit that he had to detox in an induced coma, besides. Can happen to anyone, of course, and it's not necessarily a reflection on character in its own right, but it is worth taking some thought on the value of advice on how to keep your life together when it comes from someone who's demonstrated such an inability to keep his own life together. Even on the simplest things - his constant line is "clean your room", and every time you see him on a Zoom interview from home it's wall-to-wall clutter in the background. Granted, "clean your room" is pretty uncontroversial, and is good advice - as is that you should pet a cat when you find the chance. But, in this as in everything else, epistemology matters: you do want to consider the source.