Akira The Don, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson - Treat Yourself Like Someone You Are Responsible For Helping lyrics
[Akira The Don, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson - Treat Yourself Like Someone You Are Responsible For Helping lyrics]
I read this piece of work by
Jung a long while back
It was a meditation on
The injunction to treat your neighbor as
As you would like to be treated (echo)
And what Jung pointed out
Which I really liked was that
That wasn't an injunction to be
Nice to other people
It was an invitation to reciprocity
It was something like this it’s like
You should figure out how you
Would like to be treated
Like you were taking care of yourself
Not how you would like people
To respond to you
It's more important than that
It's like imagine you had a child
That you really cared for and someone said
"Well, people will treat this child exactly
Like you want them to"
"But you have to figure out what that is"
And so, then you’d have to sit down for
Like a month and you think okay well
How do you want your child to be treated?
You don't want everyone to just
Be nice to ‘em, you know?
You want people to challenge ‘em and
You want people to discipline him and
You want people to tell ‘em when he's wrong
It's like
You don't just want everyone to be nice
That's pathetic it's pathetic
There's no - There’s no challenge in that
Challenge in that (echo)
There’s no - There's no challenge in that
Challenge in that (echo)
Human beings are self-conscious and
We know about our limitations
And we know about our weaknesses and so
We can have contempt for
Human beings in general because
You know we’re just
Flawed and breakable and all of that
But we know ourselves better than
We know everyone else and so
You have a very acute sense of
How you're not up to scratch
And so that leads naturally to a sort
Of self-contentious attitude
People are more likely to give prescription
Medication to their pets than
To take them themselves
Take them themselves (echo)
Imagine someone that you treat well
That you love
And try to treat yourself that way
You go to detach from yourself for a bit
You got to think okay well
I'm a person among other people
And I deserve at least as much respect as
A person among other people
I should be trying to help myself across time
And instead of being
Self-contemptuous and self-destructive
I need to take care of myself
As if I'm potentially valuable
And to lay out my life that way
It’s hard for people
They don't take care of themselves
As well as they should
As well as the should (echo)
Take care of your room
Take care of your things like
Have some respect for yourself as a
Miraculous being because that is
Actually what you are
There is a lot of potential within you
You're necessary more than you think to
The unfolding of things
That's the thing about being an individual
It's the thing that
Western civilization has always recognized
That as an individual you have a light
That you have to bring into the world
And that if you don't bring it into the world
The world is a dimmer place
And that's a bad thing because
When the world is
A dim place it can get very-very-very dark
Jung a long while back
It was a meditation on
The injunction to treat your neighbor as
As you would like to be treated (echo)
And what Jung pointed out
Which I really liked was that
That wasn't an injunction to be
Nice to other people
It was an invitation to reciprocity
It was something like this it’s like
You should figure out how you
Would like to be treated
Like you were taking care of yourself
Not how you would like people
To respond to you
It's more important than that
It's like imagine you had a child
That you really cared for and someone said
"Well, people will treat this child exactly
Like you want them to"
"But you have to figure out what that is"
And so, then you’d have to sit down for
Like a month and you think okay well
How do you want your child to be treated?
You don't want everyone to just
Be nice to ‘em, you know?
You want people to challenge ‘em and
You want people to discipline him and
You want people to tell ‘em when he's wrong
It's like
You don't just want everyone to be nice
That's pathetic it's pathetic
There's no - There’s no challenge in that
Challenge in that (echo)
There’s no - There's no challenge in that
Challenge in that (echo)
Human beings are self-conscious and
We know about our limitations
And we know about our weaknesses and so
We can have contempt for
Human beings in general because
You know we’re just
Flawed and breakable and all of that
But we know ourselves better than
We know everyone else and so
You have a very acute sense of
How you're not up to scratch
And so that leads naturally to a sort
Of self-contentious attitude
People are more likely to give prescription
Medication to their pets than
To take them themselves
Take them themselves (echo)
Imagine someone that you treat well
That you love
And try to treat yourself that way
You go to detach from yourself for a bit
You got to think okay well
I'm a person among other people
And I deserve at least as much respect as
A person among other people
I should be trying to help myself across time
And instead of being
Self-contemptuous and self-destructive
I need to take care of myself
As if I'm potentially valuable
And to lay out my life that way
It’s hard for people
They don't take care of themselves
As well as they should
As well as the should (echo)
Take care of your room
Take care of your things like
Have some respect for yourself as a
Miraculous being because that is
Actually what you are
There is a lot of potential within you
You're necessary more than you think to
The unfolding of things
That's the thing about being an individual
It's the thing that
Western civilization has always recognized
That as an individual you have a light
That you have to bring into the world
And that if you don't bring it into the world
The world is a dimmer place
And that's a bad thing because
When the world is
A dim place it can get very-very-very dark