[March 27, 2025] If there is one thing I’ve learned in the past decade, it is to pay close attention to Dr. Jordan Peterson’s advice. He gives us another message today for young women.
Dr. Peterson warns young women that they are being feed lies that can harm them unless they can see the lies and avoid falling for them. What are those lies and what can women do to eliminate the harm.
The first lie young women are told is that you must have a career. Dr. Peterson says, “no,” only a tiny fraction of people have careers; maybe two percent. The rest of us have jobs. And the definition of a job is an activity that you wouldn’t do voluntarily. He also points out that most jobs aren’t very desirable or meaningful. These jobs are not the centerpiece of your life.
If you have a career, he uses the example of going into law, you’re going to find that it’s very demanding, difficult, stressful, and competitive. You are also not going to find your desire for intimate, close interpersonal relationships in a competitive domain. And expect to regularly put in 60 plus hour weeks. Careers are exceptionally demanding, you’re never done, you’re always working.
The second lie is that career or job is the fundamental purpose of life and that’s not true. The most important thing in life is your family, your relationship, and your children. You may not know that when you’re 19, you don’t know anything at that age. What you don’t understand is that by the time you’re 40 and you don’t have a family with children, you are a lost soul.
As you get older, you should strive for a balanced life because the other thing you’ll find is that prioritizing career over family does not work well, especially when you’re over 40. Most careers peak about this time and if you want to live properly and satisfactorily, having a family must be the most important aspect of your life.
It’s a barren future without children and a real mistake to voluntarily forego children at the expense of a career or a job. In the latter part of your life without children, especially if you don’t have a partner, you will be a lonesome, isolated, miserable creature.
A question that should legitimately be asked by young women is about what other women are doing, and that they’ve always done to have a good life. Doing so gives young women a proven path that works. And beware of the pursuit of happiness, Dr. Peterson warns us that is not the way.
Furthermore, get some job skills, be educated, stay in good shape, get an intimate partner, and a family. If you miss any of those, then you are in trouble. It is common that young women don’t know where they should be headed; they are just too young, without any experience, and they are being lied to, often by other women.
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Excellent. We all can appreciate what Dr. Peterson is telling us.
It is sad that young women are lied to. We, their family members, also perpetuate the lie that women will be their best if they are strong and independent. But they give up their right and privilege to have a family and children. Most don’t ever realize this and live a sad life as cat ladies.
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You go girl, and you are right about Dr. Peterson and also that he focuses his attention mostly on young men but now he is turning his attention to young women. Bravo. I’m happy he is there. A true national treasure.
Gen. Satterfield, I think we can say that the women out here – young women specifically – do appreciate you giving us some of the societal lies as pointed out by Dr. Jordan Peterson. He has said alot to young men about adopting responsibility to make their lives better and thus more fulfilling. But the lies told to women is tragic because everyone is lying to our young women. See also an older article from Gen. Satterfield that says something similar. “The 3 Lies Told to Young Women”
https://www.theleadermaker.com/the-3-lies-told-to-young-women/
I do recommend reading this older article too.
Great catch, new girl. I too remember this post and the lies told to women. No wonder most women have no children and are more depressed today than ever in our history. Yet we claim we are more free and independent and strong. Yeah, right.
Young ladies, I hope you’re reading this. And paying attention. Someone is pointing our a life trap that is led by the feminists movement that will destroy your life.
Yes, too many women caught in the secular, work hard at a job trap.
I hope young women are paying attention to what Gen. Satterfield is writing about here.
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“ It’s a barren future without children and a real mistake to voluntarily forego children at the expense of a career or a job. In the latter part of your life without children, especially if you don’t have a partner, you will be a lonesome, isolated, miserable creature.” – Gen. Satterfield summarizing Dr. Jordan Peterson about how women, especially young women are being lied to by everyone. Don’t fall for it.
Sooooo true.
Women are being lied to about “careers.” They fall for it every time and I think the source of this is our push to remove religion from our lives. Without God in our lives, the meaning of life is about work to make money and material objects, not our spiritual health. Do not allow those women in your life fall for this, they are too precious.
Young women, pay close attention to Dr. Jordan Peterson’s words because he is spot on about how young women are being misled.
I fully agree with you, Gen. Satterfield, that one should pay close attention to Dr. Jordan Peterson. He helps point the way to a good life.
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Let me add that Gen. Satterfield wrote an excellent book, “55 Rules for a Good Life.” Very much worth reading.
https://www.amazon.com/55-Rules-Good-Life-Responsibility/dp/1737915529/
Randy, I have his book and I loved it. Then, I purchased 5 more to give to other family members. You can see the influence of Dr. Peterson in Gen. Satterfield’s book. 👍👍👍👍👍👍
YES, EXCELLENT BOOK BY GEN SATTERFIELD
I think most of us own a copy. Don’t get left out, get your own copy of “55 Rules for a Good Life.”
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Randy, I like the way you think and having read “55 rules for a good life” and “12 rules for life,” I can say that there is a movement in the West to re-adopt our basic human values. But there is also an insidious, neo-Marxist that’s also making a comeback. So beware.