yes, you the critical thinker who told me that because I belong to a union that I am not a real carpenter while you had your ass bent over a table because they can pay those immigrants you love so much so much less to do your job.
Ok. For me, that you were not a Peterson fan was not at all clear. i saw stuff on looking for true critical thinkers, than i saw you say he was a character. That felt a plus for him from you. Then i saw you like his zebra mention. That felt you giving him another plus. In yours i felt you had some admiration for him other than the fact he is obviously has plenty of smarts. (I think i recall you saying somewhere that smarts are not necessarily a reason to admire a person. If that is right, it's something we agree on.) Back to yours, i felt you had expressed some admiration for Peterson with no critical comment at all. Seems i must have misread it .. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=170879515 , in some way.
"No Jordan fan as I noted but I will say again, critical thinking is not following following a herd... "
Yes. What else could it be...
Moving on, here's one on Peterson's zebra mention:
What ZEBRAS can teach us about human motivation and business strategy
by Stan Phelps | Jul 28, 2022 | Pink Goldfish | 0 comments
Business strategy
Dr. Jordan Peterson uses an insight from Stanford biologist Dr. Robert Sapolsky about zebras to explain a fundamental aspect of human behavior. Zebras (they are black with white stripes) are not camouflaged against their surrounding environment. Instead, they are camouflaged to blend in with the herd.
[Insert: Heh, i was going to say my favorite zebra question is to ask people what color their stripes are. Phelp's scotched that. Asking questions like that can be a good way of sharing knowledge.]
This blending effect makes it difficult for researchers to study individual zebras. You notice something about a zebra and make a note. Then you look up and you can’t tell if it’s the same zebra.
What can you do?
Peterson shares how researchers would mark the zebra they wanted to study with red paint or a tag on its ear. But they found that once the zebra was marked, it was quickly killed by the lions.
Oops.
Lions don’t necessarily kill the weakest in the herd, they typically go after those zebras they can identify.
This helps lions organize their hunt. A small zebra, a zebra with a limp, those with red paint on their hind quarters, or those who stick their head up… they all become targets.
The stripes of a zebra creates a blending effect. It is impossible for an individual zebra to stand out amongst the herd. This is good for safety as lions see the herd as one huge object and won’t attack it.
But this blending makes standing out and differentiating a non-starter. You can’t add stripes and be different. It’s just more of the same. This is what David Rendall and I call a MATCH strategy in the book “Pink Goldfish 2.0.”
People and brands camouflage themselves to fit into the herd. They keep their stripes on and heads down so the lions don’t get them. The motivation to avoid suffering outweighs the pursuit of success.
Peterson points out the tendency to move into the middle of the herd. The benefit of being in the middle is the protective ring from the lions.
Sure, you might be successful by standing out, but you also might be dead. So the fundamental human motivation according to Jordan Peterson is to be invisible and left alone. It’s not Survival of the Fittest, rather it’s Survival of the Conformist.
Research shows that only 3% of people and brands have the ability to become extraordinary.
Because there is a real danger in being visible, people and brands are afraid to stand out. Brands are motivated to benchmark the leaders and emulate similar attributes. This isn’t a path to innovation. It’s a recipe for sameness. Most practice R&D as if it stands for… Ripoff & Duplicate.
You can become part of that 3% by deciding to break your industry norms and stand out from the herd. Be less like zebras or cows and more like peacocks and polar bears.
This shift against conformity is the essence of Pink Goldfish strategy. Do MORE of what makes you different or intentionally do LESS of what everyone considers normal in your industry. Do MORE of what your customers value and unapologetically LESS of what they don’t.
Less cow, more cowbell.
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On King yep. This an excerpt from one i'll probably in time, and to another on him, post in full:
How Martin Luther King Jr.'s faith drove his activism By Brandon Ambrosino brandon@vox.com Jan 19, 2015, 10:30am EST King delivers a sermon on May 13, 1956, in Montgomery, Alabama. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty)
"Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it." — Toni Morrison [...] "It's certainly the case that King's theological anthropology is front and center, though he didn't always cite it," says Anthony Bradley .. https://www.tkc.edu/faculty-and-staff/dr-anthony-b-bradley , professor of theology and ethics at The King's College in New York City. As Bradley notes, King was greatly influenced during his doctoral studies at Boston University by a theology known as personalism,
which Rufus Burrow Jr. describes as "the philosophy that God is personal, and persons possess infinite, inviolable dignity."
Though King was raised in a family that practiced personalism, he was first introduced to its theological formulation at Morehouse College, where he earned his undergraduate degree. The president of Morehouse was Benjamin Elijah Mays, who, in 1946, wrote, "The destiny of each individual wherever he resides on the earth is tied up with the destiny of all men that inhabit the globe." [...] King's demand that black people be treated with dignity is the ethical implication of his theology that said they were created with dignity.
But if King was a churchman, as Carter says, it's important to note that he was a specific type of churchman: "We miss King if we don't highlight the theological significance of black church in America."
As Carter explains it, white churches that sprang up throughout American history did so in the pattern of the great European cathedrals and denominations from which they were transplanted. Black church, while it is related to those European frameworks, "is in excess of them," says Carter, meaning they "were already doing work beyond what those traditional denominations were doing."
"In the face of a modern condition that told Blacks they were only worthy of their labor power, black churches came along and affirmed that there was a mode of life far beyond the woundings that came along with black existence in America," he says.
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