Jordan Peterson's 'Dragons, Monsters, and Men' | Only On DailyWire+

One of the things I tell young men, well, and young women as well, but the young men really need to hear this more: I think you should be a monster, an absolute monster, and then you should learn how to control it.

So a man who's capable of aggression but has it under control is a way more useful man than one who cannot do that.

And so you're willing to go get a job, but you're terrified of an interview. It's like there's a dragon for you because you want to fight the dragons that guard the gates of the treasure that you wish to attain.

The productivity requires aim, orientation, responsibility, discipline, that willingness to work, that willingness to make sacrifices, which is the hallmark of maturity in the service of a higher goal.

It orients you solidly in the world if you do that, and it gives you a dragon to fight. What do you want to grow up? You want to be illiterate? You want to be inarticulate?

You're going to have to negotiate, you're gonna have to lead, you're gonna have to convince, you're gonna have to think. To say to an 18-year-old, "You're okay the way you are," that just deflates them.

You know, when you go to the gym and you start lifting weights, well, your body's going to transform, but it's not going to do that if you just sit around.

You have to face your being with the necessity of transformation, and then all sorts of new things that you had no idea you were capable of will make themselves manifest. Those are the dragons, you know, the ones that stand in the path that leads to the light, and you have to say to yourself, "I will do good nonetheless."

Everyone great makes that decision. Make that decision because maybe you're great.