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Jordan Peterson Quit Alcohol. The 6 Reasons Why Will Shock You.
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Speaker 2:Alcohol is a potent anxiety reducing drug, can have a heroin like effect, which facilitates the sense of social belonging. The consequence for me was I would misbehave when I was drinking in ways that made me remorseful the next day. Alcohol doesn't bring out the best in people's characters. Alcohol almost universally makes people less than they are. It's fun because it eradicates your concern for future consequences. People find themselves too timid to do anything, and so, instead of admitting their lack of courage to themselves, they put a moral gloss on it and say that the reason they're timorous is because they're good.
Speaker 1:Jordan Peterson brings up some absolutely phenomenal points in this little segment, and there are really six key themes that he's identified and we're going to unpack all six of them now because these ideas are absolutely spot on.
Speaker 2:Alcohol is a potent anxiety reducing drug, can have a heroin-like effect which facilitates the sense of social belonging.
Speaker 1:The first thing he says is that it creates this heroin-like effect which creates this feeling of social belonging. The first thing he says is that it creates this heroin-like effect which creates this feeling of social belonging. Now, this is true, but he does kind of get into it a little bit deeper in the video. But let's just unpack this first point right now. So when we start drinking alcohol, we do feel a sense of social belonging. Think about an 18-year-old or, in America, a 21-year-old.
Speaker 1:When I was 18 in England, I remember going on my 18th birthday and that was the thing I was excited to do, right. So I go to a pub. That's what we call them pubs. I guess in America it would be a bar. And on my 18th birthday I remember going to this pub and it was like the evening before I turned 18. So I was like 17 and at midnight I was 18. I was trying to persuade the landlord to give me my first pint and he's like no, not a chance. Anyway, I waited until midnight. I went to another bar because I thought I'm not having my first beer from you, I'm going somewhere else. So I went to this other bar and I remember getting my first legal beer and I did it on the dot the moment I turned 18, I went and did this Because at the time I felt a sense of social belonging.
Speaker 1:I felt like I was now finally an adult, I fit in, I could drink the grown-up drinks. And this happens to so many of us. We feel like we now fit in. But it is kind of ludicrous Because think about it for a second Okay, we might get this moment where we feel like we socially belong, but then what actually happens to somebody that drinks and their social relationships over the long term? Well, they break down.
Speaker 1:You know, I've worked with people in my company, soberkillercom. I've seen people's marriages get destroyed. I've seen people's kids won't talk to them. I've seen friends not talk to people. I've seen alcohol damage so many relationships. In my own life it's damaged relationships. I've got family members that I don't talk to because of drugs and alcohol. So he brings up a great point. It sucks you in because it has this effect to make you feel this social belonging. But then when you go a little bit deeper, you actually realise that it doesn't help us socially in any way. Maybe for a split second it might, but he starts talking about this later about the courage stuff, which we'll get to in a minute. But that's how it sucks you in All of a sudden you feel like you're an adult, that you're one of us, and it almost creates like this us versus them. We're the grown-ups that drink and you're the kids that don't. It's a very, very interesting phenomenon.
Speaker 2:The consequence for me was I would misbehave when I was drinking in ways that made me remorseful the next day.
Speaker 1:The next thing that he brings up is he talks about how he usually would misbehave, he'd make bad decisions and then the next day he'd wake up regretting it. And this is actually something called alcohol myopia. And this is where we have no regard for future consequences, and we're so in the moment, when we're drinking, that all we want to do is get the next immediate bit of pleasure. And this is why people do things like drink drive when they literally live five minutes down the road. It would cost 15 bucks for a taxi, but they choose to drink drive because the thought of the taxi and all of that stuff they can't rationalize it. It's why people start eating bad foods when they drink. It's why they go and have unprotected sex with a prostitute. I mean, all sorts of things happen when people drink.
Speaker 1:Think about the violence, think about the murders. There's data out there that proves that most murders were done under the I can't remember if it's most or like a super high percentage of murders, but they were done under the influence of alcohol. And this is what he's talking about. I'm not saying that you're going to murder somebody if you drink, but it's very hard for us to think long term. When we're drinking, we just think, ok, where's that immediate bit of pleasure that I can get? And you wake up the next morning thinking, why did I even do that? Why did I send that text to that person? Why did I drive my car home? What have I done? So many of us can relate to this. So he brings very, very good point here.
Speaker 2:Alcohol doesn't bring out the best in people's characters.
Speaker 1:Now the next point he makes is a bitter pill to swallow. He says that alcohol doesn't bring out the best in one's character. So I've not drank myself now for almost seven years, and I drank for 10 years. And the 10 years that I drank for listen. I know that I wasn't the kind of person that I wanted to be, and I know exactly what he means by the way, that alcohol doesn't bring out the best in somebody's character. When I drank, I was more self-centered. I'd put alcohol before my relationships. I didn't really think about how I can help other people and add value in the world. What I was really focused on was the short term. But then there were other things that I did as well when I was drinking that I don't even want to go into.
Speaker 1:But he brings out a very good point that it doesn't bring out the best in someone's character. It can't because it lowers your inhibitions. And I don't know about you, but have you ever spoke to a drunk person? It's the most boring thing ever when they're slurring their words and talking about politics, this and that, this problem and that problem, and they're not really making much sense. But you know, a lot of people might hear this right now and think, no, no, no. When I drink I'm fine. And hey, listen, and a lot of people might be hearing this thinking when I drink I'm fine. But after not drinking myself for seven years, I promise you that if you do drink and you do think that you are being the best version of yourself, you're in for a surprise. If you stop drinking alcohol, you will find a version of you that you didn't even know existed.
Speaker 2:Alcohol almost universally makes people less than they are.
Speaker 1:The fourth thing he says is absolutely savage, but it's absolutely true. And he says that alcohol makes people less than they are. And boy oh boy. That's me in a nutshell. When I drank, I was a totally different person to who I am now. I'm now more disciplined, I'm more healthy, I'm fitter, I'm more productive, I have more money. Everything got better as a result of stopping drinking. Everything, no exaggeration, it was the like. Think about decisions, right? The only thing that I could have done that probably had a higher leverage return on a singular decision was buying Bitcoin when it was $1. That's probably the only thing I can think of, and in fact, even that, sure, I'd have a load of money, but if I was still drinking, guess what? Who knows what would have happened? So I still believe that that was the highest leverage decision that I could ever make, better than any business decision, any investment decision, any decision For me in my personal life. Stopping drinking alcohol made me so much better.
Speaker 2:It's fun because it eradicates your concern for future consequences.
Speaker 1:Again. The fifth thing he starts talking about is that we have this no worry for future consequences, so then we can go and kind of have this bravado.
Speaker 2:but he then starts to unpack something so deep People find themselves too timid to do anything, and so, instead of admitting their lack of courage to themselves, they put a moral gloss on it and say that the reason they're timorous is because they're good.
Speaker 1:He says, rather than people admit to themselves that they actually have a lack of courage, they drink and then they go and behave the way they want to behave. Oh man, like it's. It's. I've never heard it put like that before, but he nails it. We think that alcohol gives us courage. Right, you've heard it before Dutch courage.
Speaker 1:But I don't know if you've read Stop Drinking Books before, but I remember reading this in a book and it said that what alcohol does is it removes fear. So what ends up happening when you drink is you no longer need courage. So let's say you know that there's a girl that you it's a bad example, right, because, listen, you're probably not in the dating market, but like an example would be is like you know there's that girl that you've always wanted to speak to, and then you go and have the shot of alcohol and then all of a sudden, you know the thoughts go and then you go and talk to the girl, right, but that's not acting courageously, that's actually doing the opposite. That's just removing fear through drinking alcohol. And I remember hearing that in some stop drinking literature. I think I've read it multiple times. I think I've read every stop drinking book out there over the past seven years and doing sober clear and helping people stop drinking.
Speaker 1:But it's so true. But Jordan Peterson just delivers it with absolute savagery. He's just like rather than you admitting to yourself that you have no courage, as you just say that you're a good person, I'm thinking my gosh, this guy just he is brutal. But I just think this short segment, I think he absolutely nails it and I just love to see people with so much influence and so much relevance actually going and talking about this topic, because there are so many people that are quietly struggling and I think the more that we open up these conversations, the better things go. So credit to George Peterson. Thanks for checking out the Stop Drinking podcast by Sober Clear. If you want to learn more about how we work with people to help them stop drinking effortlessly, then make sure to visit wwwsoberclearcom.
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