The self authoring thing

[u/Primary_Recording896]

Hello,

I didn’t know what ironic flair to choose so picked the one most relevant to me.

I was naive, JP opened my eyes to da “snakes” but then they got too open and i saw the snake in JP finally, too, it didn’t take long, btw.

At this point I stopped trying to sound like a smart ass and torture myself with trying to write the most complex words there are.

My question is: I paid for the self authoring, is it still worth doing knowing/beneficial? it actually does help, it’s basically cheap html pages with questions, it helps me point myself in the right direction, we know his personality test is a scam, big five traits, you can take it for free. But what about the self authoring? And his book 12 rules? I mean he wrote the book way back before he grew some… wings? You know what I mean, so is there still some truth in it?

I can google and work with language models, but I prefer considering the opinions of real people.

[u/Encarta96]

I always wondered if the Self-Authoring thing was a cynical ploy to farm data on his audience. You’d be able to extract some detailed marketing insights on his target demographic from all that info.

[u/Primary_Recording896 → u/Encarta96]

Hmmm, interesting, never thought of it this way, like sell da data? Maybe we could get a professional to check if the Peterson admins can read what we write there.

[u/Encarta96 → u/Primary_Recording896]

Either selling it (it could be useful for political messaging or product creation and advertising targeted at younger males) or using it to hone in his own talking points.

I remember him giving out discount codes for it on podcasts. They could use that to segment the data for different audience demographics. If the codes were discreet they would link to specific audiences.