Advice to Young Men in Their 20s | Jordan and Mikhaila Peterson

What advice do you have for a young man in his 20s?

Make a plan. Look at what you're interested in. Get disciplined about something. Allow for the possibility that you have something important to contribute to the world and that the world would be a lesser place without that contribution.

Don't be afraid of taking on responsibility. It's where you find what sustains you in your life. You can take on too much responsibility; you have to be cautious in that regard. But that's a less common problem than not taking on enough.

A lot of the things that people regard as traps are actually the means to their life. You know, often young people are afraid of commitment, for example, in the context of a romantic relationship. They feel that that's going to interfere with their pursuit of something more valuable, but that's just not the case.

You're not going to find something more valuable in your life than a committed relationship with someone that you love, that sustains itself across time and that in all likelihood produces children. That's life.

There may be people for whom avoiding that is the better route, but those people are very rare, and you need a real reason to assume that you're one of those people. Hopefully for you, you're not.

I've had a very good career, a very meaningful career in multiple dimensions, and it's still been the case for me that the most important part of my life has been my intimate relationship with my wife and my family. So don't be afraid of that, or be afraid of it, but don't let that stop you from pursuing it.