What Moses Reveals About Your Life

In this lecture, Jordan Peterson takes on a single question — what is and should be the story of your life — and answers it through the ancient account of a people escaping slavery and of a shepherd who becomes a leader only once he has grown up. Along the way he argues that tyranny is not first a political fact but a personal one, playing out in your own head, your marriage, and your kitchen long before it reaches a nation. He also contends that the thing you aim at silently decides everything you are able to see. The lecture closes on the oldest complaint of all: that you know what you should do and cannot make yourself do it. It was filmed in Los Angeles, California, on May 15, 2024.