Yes. (100k)
Because In the end, he's just a self-help book huckster.
Seriously. Go dig up any self-help book from the 90s back when shoulder pads ruled women's fashion and 3 day stubble was sexy and read it. Then take JP's 3.14159 rules for your life and compare them. It's the same thing.
1) Clean Your Room: An organized and uncluttered living area is needed for a healthy mind. If you live in filth, you will feel like filth. And I mean make your bed every day, even if you live alone and it's just going to become a mess again when you come home. IT WORKS.
2) Exercise: Go jogging. Go Biking. Do something that takes TIME 3 days a week to work up a sweat for at least a half hour. Preferably long distance. Of all the things you REALLY need to improve, stamina is number one. If you have stamina, everything else in this life is easier. We got machines to lift. We got guns to kill. You don't need to be able to learn kung-fu, or gun-fu, or parkor, or shit like that. If you can walk 10 miles/bike 20, no matter how long it takes, without pause, you'll have stamina. With those accomplishments, you'll know, "If I can do THIS bullshit, I can handle THAT bullshit"
3) Count your calories: Nothing goes in your mouth without you writing down what it was and how much. Later, you need to calculate how many calories it was. Add up how many you eat each day, then how many a week. That's it. You don't have to diet. You don't have to do ANYTHING to control your weight. What you need to do is KNOW what you are eating. I promise you. You will lose weight if you do this. Eat whatever YOU WANT, but you must KNOW what you ate and how many calories it was.
And you won't do it.
No. Seriously. 99% of people can't record what they eat and how many calories every day and calculate it for an entire month. You will give up. EVEN knowing that you don't have to change your diet, chances are it'll take you a couple of tries to get through a month. Well, there is one change: You can't eat it if you don't know what it is, AND how many calories it is, AND write it down in a notepad.
The funny thing is, once you DO pull this off, and you are more aware of what goes in your mouth, you will automatically start losing weight. I swear. Because when you go, "Do I really need this 4,000-calorie pizza?', you'll eat just a little bit less.
The advanced way to handle this is to add in a multivitamin and a protein 2-3/week. I recommend real meat. Sorry vegans, pure plant is lacking a few key amino acids and I point to any famous person who's a vegan and they all, eventually, lose their minds, or they cheat. Then weigh yourself once a day. Then put your calories and weight into a spreadsheet and make it into a line graph. Why? For some reason, the psychological boost of that line graph will give you a dopamine hit and make you feel better.
Pi) And the rest is just philosophical bullshit.
The reason why he became what he is today is that he told the powers that be to go shove their Pronoun BS and that triggered the Streisand effect. Once he became famous he started selling self-help books and then... well...
He became THIS:
He's a good guy selling basic crap that in any other day and age would be left in the bargain book bin, but SOMEHOW he became famous, and by his enemies hatting him so much as to try to silence him, they made a monster. Now he believes his own hype.
And that's also why you can get him to do it.
He REALLY is into studying mythology and the bible. He LOVES his myths. He's a major Jungian freak and...
THAT IS ULTIMATELY WHY I DETEST JP.
JUNG/FREUD HAS DONE MORE HARM TO HUMANITY THAN ANY OTHER PHILOSOPHER IN HUMAN HISTORY.
There is no Subconscious. Period. It's BULLSHIT. Every time I taught someone that Freud was BULLSHIT, and explained how the human mind works and they embraced it, they all improved DRAMATICALLY in their mental health.
YOU HAVE NO CONTROL OVER YOUR LIFE! YOU HAVE AN UNDETECTABLE SECOND MIND CONTROLLING YOUR LIFE AND TELLING YOU WHAT TO DO SO YOU ARE ULTIMATELY FIGHTING YOURSELF AT EVERY TURN!
Uhh... if it's undetectable... how does it control you?
WHERE in your brain is it? Because we can find so many OTHER things in your mind. Why is there no subconscious section of the brain? And no, that one chart you can google is as bullshit as the chart that claims that various parts of your tongue taste a single different flavor.
You are not two different people. There ISN'T a second person inside your head controlling your life.
Your brain is a computer. You program your computer. YOU are the frontal Lobe. You are a PILOT attached to your brain. Do you CHOOSE where every toe goes when you take a step? NO. You have a series of commands that form a single bundle of actions. Those bundles are then bundled with other smaller bundles to make a larger bundle.
You get taking a step. Then walking. Then Running. Then running upstairs. Then doing parkour shit.
You bundle a bunch of actions together, it becomes something you can "trigger" without thinking about, and then it does the routine. You can interrupt it, but ultimately, you turn shit on and off, and program subroutines that you will turn on and off.
IF YOU HAVE BAD HABITS, YOU PROGRAMMED BAD SUBROUTINES.
YOUR SUBROUTINES DO NOT THINK FOR THEMSELVES.
READING THIS IS A SUBROUTINE: Each letter is a bundle. Each word is a bundle. The sentence becomes a bundle. You then take that final bundle and compare it to other bundles you have. You then look for patterns. You keep the parts that match what you already have and throw out the rest.
I could go on for hours on how the brain works. How the Christmas Spirit is actually a form of PTSD. All sorts of fun ways of looking at your brain that, unfortunately, fixes you very quickly so it is hard to make money off you. People love to be able to blame something/anything other than themselves and once you go "There is no subconscious. My brain is just difficult to program." and you learn how to program it, suddenly, you notice how most of your bullshit goes away.
If it DOESN'T go away, then that's actual physical problems with your brain, and that needs medical treatment, most likely with medication.
My point is, JP goes with Freud and Jung because their
NEO-MYSTICAL PSYCHOBABBLE is great for selling books, or he believes in it. Most likely both.
Evangelion is the pinnacle of Neo-Mystical Psychobabble.
If you showed him an audience of 100k people saying, "I WANNA WATCH YOU PSYCHOBABBLE LIVE WHILE WATCHING ANIME" he'll figure it'll result in donations and he'll make money, and frankly, it's right up his alley.
and let me make myself clear.
IMHO:
FREUD AND JUNG MAKE AS MUCH SENSE AS EVANGELION
