{"id":4991,"date":"2021-06-19T02:53:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T02:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4991"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:40","slug":"an-unbelievable-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4991","title":{"rendered":"AN UNBELIEVABLE PLACE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0A follow up on yesterday&#8217;s post regarding Edgar Allan Poe&#8217;s advice to &#8220;believe nothing you hear<span style=\"background-color: white\">, and only one half that you see&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white\">I was listening to a podcast this afternoon as I did some painting in Melissa&#8217;s office at work. It was a longform conversation between Dr. Jordan Peterson and Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white\">I wasn&#8217;t familiar with Kaufman, but Peterson is pretty famous these days in certain circles and I find him a fascinating individual. He is a clinical psychologist, a bestselling author and a university professor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white\">The guy is super intelligent and I was following along with about 50% of the podcast conversation this afternoon. Fascinating stuff about IQ tests and cognitive studies and whatnot.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white\">And then I run across this retweet from Dr. Peterson on Twitter:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20210618-170534.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"2400\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210618_221109-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A follow up on yesterday&#8217;s post regarding Edgar Allan Poe&#8217;s advice to &#8220;believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see&#8221;: I was listening to a podcast this afternoon as I did some painting in Melissa&#8217;s office at work. It was a longform conversation between Dr. Jordan Peterson and Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4994,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions\/4994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}