Are you treating your close ones with dignity and respect?

When this question hits

This question shows up when being kind to others became easier than being honest with yourself. You've probably thought about it before, but not like this. Not with the honesty it actually requires. The easy version of the answer comes fast. The real version takes longer, and it's the one that matters.

What this surfaces

What this question reveals depends on how honest you're willing to be with it. The surface answer comes quickly. The one underneath it, the one you'd tell someone who already knows the context, takes longer. Personal Development questions work best when you answer the version you'd tell your brother at 2am, not the version you'd post online.

How to sit with this

Notice if you're answering for an audience. There isn't one. Write the version that makes you uncomfortable.

Go deeper

If this question landed, the interview picks up the thread: who you were, who you are now, and the unnamed thing in between. This question belongs to Personal Development: not the 'become your best self' version. the version where you look at who you actually are right now, without the aspirational filter, and figure out what's true. The conversation takes about 15 minutes. No account needed. Nothing stored. It uses your exact words back to you, not interpretations, and names the patterns you can't see from inside them.

Source

Jordan B. Peterson

Not therapy. Not a chatbot. An interview that names the patterns you can't see from inside them.

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