Treat Yourself Like Someone You Are Responsible for Helping.
Jung wrote about the biblical idea that you should treat your neighbor as if he were yourself.
It's often read as something like, “You should be nice to people”.
That’s not what it means at all. Nice is a very low-end virtue. It means that you should treat your neighbor as if he or she is someone you wish to encourage and develop.
But you should also have the same attitude towards yourself. Regardless of what your opinion is of yourself, critical, hypercritical, let's say.
That's often the case with people who are anxious or hyper-conscientious.
You have to give yourself the same sympathy that you would extend to someone you cared for. You have to come to treat yourself as if you're someone that you care for.
On my upcoming tour, I will discuss ideas that are closely related to my 2017 Biblical Lecture Series—ideas I've been working through in my forthcoming book.
Tickets can be found here: https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/events/
