By: Caleb Lu on November 18, 2022
“Every year I pray that she would experience failure.” These are actual words that came out of my wife’s mouth when we were talking about her now 11 year old niece. I wasn’t sure how to feel about it at the time and filed it as an orange flag, not quite a deal breaker but…
By: Jean de Dieu Ndahiriwe on November 18, 2022
Eve Poole’s Leadersmithing has great insights for leaders and everyone aspiring to become a person of influence in one way or another. Leaders come in different shapes with differing abilities, is anyone born a leader, or is leadership a skill to be acquired with learning and mastery? Eve Poole and a couple of other great…
By: Nicole Richardson on November 18, 2022
The existential problem of evil has been a wrestling match humanity has participated in since the dawn of time. It is this very existential question Jordan B. Peterson attempts to tackle in his book Maps of Meaning : The Architecture of Belief. Relying heavily on the principles of the hero’s journey outlined in Joseph Campbells…
By: Denise Johnson on November 18, 2022
To adequately engage with Jordan Peterson’s Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief,[1] far more time and even more space is necessary than is possible in this brief post. Peterson is the popular Canadian Psychology Professor from Toronto, who uses philosophical reasoning to explain “how humans generate ‘meaning.’” [2] Peterson’s manner of communicating his theories…
By: Henry Gwani on November 18, 2022
Maps of Meaning draws from several disciplines to propose a framework of constructing meaning and understanding religious and mythological models of reality that align with neuropsychology. Written by Jordan Peterson, a professor of psychology and practising clinical psychologist, the book draws significantly from the author’s engagement with religion, philosophy, mythology and neuropsychology. Peterson states his…
By: Elmarie Parker on November 18, 2022
Reading “Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief”[1] by Jordan B. Peterson was an exercise in applying Michael Polanyi’s insights from “The Tacit Dimension.”[2] Polanyi’s core hypothesis is, “we can know more than we can tell [sic].”[3] In listening to an introductory lecture by Peterson to “Maps of Meaning,”[4] I lost track of the number…
By: Kayli Hillebrand on November 17, 2022
Jordan B. Peterson clinical psychologist and faculty at the University of Toronto wrote Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief fifteen years ago to address the depths of why and how people believe what they believe. Grounded in neuropsychology, this book both macro and micro analysis of different topics including the known and unknown, chaos…
By: Kristy Newport on November 17, 2022
Shelby Steele, in his book: Shame How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country, boldly reflects on America’s history and how racism has impacted current events relating to affirmative action. He best illustrates this in sharing about the life of Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court Justice who wrote a memoir, My Grandfather’s Son. [1] Clarence…
By: Troy Rappold on November 17, 2022
After twelve years of working on the manuscript, Jordan Peterson’s, “Maps of Meaning” was first published in 1999. The book does not fall neatly into any one single category. The book crosses many categories—which is part of its appeal—but we can begin with psychology, then philosophy, mythology, spirituality and even the self-help genre should be…
By: Kristy Newport on November 17, 2022
“We’re off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz!” This has been ringing in my head as my husband and I went to this play over the weekend at a nearby college. The college students who put on the play did a fantastic job! I wondered how many times the boisterous song rang…
By: Roy Gruber on November 17, 2022
In Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson offers a complex theory of why people believe what they believe. His premise is to show how people construct meaning and why meaning is essential to people’s existence, not just things,. He also unpacks the vital psychological functions that beliefs perform. A…
By: Kristy Newport on November 17, 2022
Eva Poole, in Leadersmithing Revealing the Trade Secrets of Leadership provides a “go to” manual that any leader would benefit from having handy in their library. Poole separates her book into Theory and Practice and uses the metaphor of a deck of cards which describes the various skill sets any leader must have.[1] As I…
By: Michael Simmons on November 16, 2022
Jordan B. Peterson’s book Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, is an in-depth look at the backdrop and intricacies of mythology, Jung’s complex theory, archetypes of the collective unconscious, and how they affect belief and behavior. Peterson writes, “Myth is not primitive proto-science. It is a qualitatively different phenomenon […] The mythic universe is…
By: Andy Hale on November 16, 2022
The concept of reading many of the Biblical passages with a literal interpretation is quite a novel concept. Take, for example, Genesis 1-11 being a literal retelling of how the earth was formed, the first humans, the great flood, and the Tower of Babble would have been anathema to the Hebrew writers, let alone most…
By: David Beavis on November 16, 2022
“Wax on. Wax off.” The famous training method of Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid. This training involved the young Daniel learning from the seasoned, experienced master through seemingly senseless, menial tasks. But, unbeknownst to Daniel, he was, through relationship and menial drills, becoming a master of martial arts himself. Eve Poole, in her…
By: Eric Basye on November 15, 2022
Dr. Jordon B. Peterson was a late bloomer. After completing his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from McGill University, he researched and taught at Harvard. Yet, he returned to his homeland of Canada in 1998 and joined the faculty at the University of Toronto. One year later, he wrote a very dense book that could not…
By: Becca Hald on November 15, 2022
I joined the Color Guard my freshman year in high school. I learned how to spin a flag and toss a rifle. To this day, I still feel the urge to do drop spins or double-time any time I am holding an object that remotely resembles a flag. Brooms, tubes of wrapping paper, golf clubs,…
By: Sara Taylor Lattimore on November 13, 2022
In the midst of the game of life it seems as though everything is out to get us. New studies telling us that what we thought was safe is actually no longer safe, we are constantly on our own to make the best decisions with the information at hand only to learn that we were…
By: Tonette Kellett on November 13, 2022
All Things Dolly Since childhood, I have loved all things Dolly Parton, and that includes her premiere vacation destination for tourists in East Tennessee – Dollywood. For those who have not been, it is a theme park set in the late 1800’s. There are rides (of course), delicious food to be tasted, and Dolly memorabilia…
By: Laura Fleetwood on November 13, 2022
We live and lead in an information-driven society. Data, details and diagnostics are at our fingertips 24 hours a day. There are many benefits to living in the information age, but there are also many problems. A primary issue being that all information is not created equal. Cousins and authors, Tom and David Chivers, explore…
