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One of the most difficult types is the intuitive inner world.
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He has intuitions as to the subjective factor, namely the inner world, very difficult to understand.
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Because what he sees are most uncommon things.
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He doesn't like to talk of them, if he's not a fool.
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Nietzsche once wrote, quote,
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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster himself, end quote.
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Dear Dr. Peterson, I hope this public letter reaches you at least in some capacity.
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Though I only speak for myself, I hope to also give voice to the people who found you in your old days on YouTube.
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For context, and to offer some credibility, I have watched all through your 2014,
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15, and 16 personality lecture series in your Toronto University days.
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In fact, those lectures inspired me to study psychology, and I am now starting my master's degree.
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I also finished your Maps of Meaning lecture series and read the book as well.
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I also read both the 12
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Rules for Life books and engaged in many hours of your content via podcasts or clips on YouTube.
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I am declaring all of this not to flatter you,
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but to show my genuine interest in your work and to support my ability to discuss your current public image.
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I feel a jarring difference in your communication if I jump from your old lectures to your recent public appearances.
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Now, who in the world is that?
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That's Carl Jung.
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My goddamn government came out the other day, those bloody liberals.
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You come across as angrier and more frustrated.
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I understand that you're entrenched in a culture war
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and publicity has visibly taken its toll on you and brought you a lot of shit, which at times you sound resentful about,
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although you've warned others against this emotion.
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How much do you know about me?
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I didn't lie to save my career.
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I didn't lie to save my clinical practice.
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Of course, naturally, I personally don't have any idea about your life or your experience,
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or the amount of criticism levied your way through all this time.
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However, if the other side side, wants to portray you as an old,
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angry, bitter, resentful, right -wing ideologue, then you're playing right into their hand.
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If we rewind the clock, what made you famous in the first place was your calmness
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and sober composure when facing the likes of Kathy Newman or Helen Lewis.
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However, it is the only thing that you get paid for under capitalism.
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Ha!
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Gotcha!
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In essence, your best qualities shined forth.
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Strong verbal ability, patience, balance, and reasonableness.
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Your other appearances reflected your best trait as professor.
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Synthesizing, distilling, connecting highly abstract and difficult ideas and explaining them in approachable ways that highlight their meaning and importance.
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That's a good example of how our fundamental assumptions can be challenged at any moment
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and how a fact can turn from a fact into a clear fallacy.
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Basically, you made philosophy and psychology accessible and practical to people who otherwise would not have any contact with it.
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I think your career is built on this foundation, which is why critics relentlessly and constantly attack this point,
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especially so -called intellectuals.
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Now, however, much of that clarity seems lost in translation.
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Your critics often don't understand you, and even for your longtime followers, it is getting harder to understand what you're getting at.
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When I watch this clip,
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for example, I do get your meaning,
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but only because I engaged with your lectures.
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For anyone else, this is likely incomprehensible, perhaps scattered or even alienating.
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And your frustration in that clip might indicate that you feel this way as well.
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Look, you warned against resentment and ideology,
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saying that a clear sign of it is knowing beforehand what a person will say in any given conversation.
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And this is why I consider it a manifestation of ideological possession.
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It's predictable.
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Yet, how many answers of yours nowadays start with psychopaths and narcissists or the radical left?
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That repetition can sound ideological in itself.
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It also seems you have a harder time listening and empathizing with people now.
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Which is making you feel social pain.
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Right.
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You don't feel that if you have psychopathic tendencies.
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Yes, and then, well, and if that pain doesn't make itself, like, I think that...
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You often seem less interested in the other person's point of view.
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You come off as more combative, perhaps rushing to get your message across, under pressure and stress, as if under siege.
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Which, to be fair, perhaps you are, but it is still working against you.
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I already mentioned the other side, but what side is it, truly?
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Is the solution really to draw lines in the sand and embrace polarization and add to it?
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I hope that people like you would rather be bridges, would be brave yet humble voices of calm and wisdom,
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arguing and verbalizing their points amidst all of this chaos.
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No one?
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One?
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Just three people?
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Okay, well, that's probably not good.
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However, with your recent dive into politics and business, you increasingly seem like a persona, like a branded figure rather than a person.
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I remember your decision against studying politics in your youth, and perhaps that was not without reason.
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You warned against alarmists, yet I regularly encounter clips of you warning about the doom of Western civilization.
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Like, I think the gatekeepers have abandoned the gates, like terrorist radicals take over the universe.
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The universities, I think, are beyond salvaging.
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What happened to your good nature?
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Certainly risk offending me and that's fine.
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I think more power to you as far as I'm concerned.
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You fought against triggered people with a smile but that smile is vanishing now.
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I quoted Nietzsche at the start of the letter not without reason for I know you know this quote too.
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In essence I think that quote encapsulates perfectly the arc of your public journey.
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Look whatever you have to say which I know at bottom is well -meaning and good is simply not getting across.
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And it saddens me because we need voices to talk about symbolism, faith, and meaning.
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Perhaps it is not always just onwards and upwards.
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Perhaps there is also something to be said about the element of the garden, which must be maintained with patience, humility, and love.
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To be fair, it's hard to estimate how much reels, shorts, and clips, and the algorithms behind them distort anyone's image,
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not just yours, and is adding to this situation.
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But that is a topic for another day.
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To close, I will add my favorite clip of yours, which I think encapsulates you well as a person as seen by your followers.
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As for myself, I hope you find ways to reconnect with your roots, with your best traits, and to bring people together and not apart.
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Young people need role models and not moral lecturers wagging their finger at them, and I know you know this.
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I hope this letter did not miss the target.
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Sincerely yours, Augustus.
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We better stop before that girl comes in.
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It was very nice having you all in the class and I appreciated the warm welcome I got,
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especially in January, because it was a rough time in January
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and so I'm glad this all worked out so well and it was a pleasure teaching you.
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So good luck to you all.
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I mean it.
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Be what you can be god you let the world dissolve around
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you otherwise that's not a good thing you've got something
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that everyone needs man including yourself it's like let it out that's where everything you want is
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and it's this it's the case for every single one of you
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so you know hoist up your goddamn privilege and go out there and do something in the world see ya
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本课的词汇与口语要点
这节口语课以视频“A Letter to Jordan Peterson: You Changed”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有：lecture, clip, meaning, perhaps, seem。 这段视频共有 16 个句子、888 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 7:46。 说话人语速平稳，每分钟约 114 个词，很适合跟读。 只有 78% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，词汇难度较高。 全部 16 个句子中有 4 个是问句，适合练习疑问语调和简短回答。
视频中的重点词汇
视频中 15 个值得学习的单词，附发音和释义：
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| lecture 名词 | /ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə/ | 演講 /演讲 |
| warn 动词 | /woɹn/ | 警告, 提醒 |
| psychology 名词 | /saɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ | 心理學 /心理学 |
| patience 名词 | /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/ | 耐性, 忍耐 |
| nowadays 副词 | /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/ | 現在 /现在, 現今 /现今 |
| critic 名词 | /ˈkɹɪt.ɪk/ | 批評家 /批评家, 評論家 /评论家 |
| trait 名词 | /tɹeɪt/ | 特徵 /特征 |
| resentment 名词 | /ɹɪˈzɛnt.mənt/ | 憤慨 /愤慨, 不滿 /不满 |
| topic 名词 | /ˈtɑpɪk/ | 主題 /主题, 話題 /话题 |
| finger 名词 | /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ | 手指, 指頭 /指头 |
| practical 形容词 | /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/ | 使用的, 實用 /实用 |
| rush 动词 | /ɹʌʃ/ | 急速去, 急速做 |
| argue 动词 | /ˈɑɹ.ɡju/ | 辯論 /辩论, 爭辯 /争辩 |
| element 名词 | /ˈɛləmənt/ | 要素 |
| moral 形容词 | /ˈmoɹəl/ | 道德的 |
视频中的语法
说话人最常用的结构，并附上视频中的原话：
| 结构 | 视频中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事 | have watched · has visibly taken · you've warned |
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | can be challenged · is built · be said |
| 定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物 | people who found · people who otherwise · foundation, which is |
需要注意的发音
- “th” 音: algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, empathize /ˈɛmpəˌθaɪz/, psychopath /ˈsaɪkəʊpæθ/, synthesize /ˈsɪnθəsaɪz/
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: patience /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, shine /ʃaɪn/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
- 长单词——注意重音位置: psychology /saɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, intellectual /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃʊəl/, accessible /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/, ideology /aɪ.diˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
中文母语者容易读错的音：
- /v/ — 不要读成 /w/，上齿轻触下唇: whoever /huˈɛvɚ/, brave /bɹeɪv/, dive /daɪv/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, verbal /ˈvɜː.bəl/
- 词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: clip /klɪp/, patience /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/, nowadays /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/, critic /ˈkɹɪt.ɪk/, trait /tɹeɪt/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: practical /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/, moral /ˈmoɹəl/, reflect /ɹɪˈflɛkt/, translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, radical /ˈɹædɪkəl/
如何用这段视频练习
- 先完整听一遍视频，不要开口，记下不认识的单词。
- 用正常速度逐句跟读，每句重复到你的节奏与说话人一致为止。
- 录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 lecture, warn, psychology 这类单词。
什么是跟读法？
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。