Yeah Peterson has a lot of good things to say but he's also says a bunch of weirdo stuff and does weirdo things and isn't exactly someone anyone should try to imitate.
If you can filter out the batshit stuff, what's left is great.
Do as I say (well, the good stuff at least), not as I do is a real thing imo.
I think there are probably a lot of people that do and say good stuff worth listening to that also do or say bad stuff that isn't worth listening to. I don't think the bad stuff wholly invalidates the value of the good stuff.
I was listening to a Peterson Bible Series lecture today (which are really fun tbh), and he was talking about Adam and Eve and going real in depth with all his crazy stuff, and I found one of his points really interesting. Basically he's talking about when God talks to Adam after he eats the fruit. This is why I think people who painted him as some incel apologist got him so wrong:
I love this part of the story. It’s so funny, and we could use a little humor at this point. "And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And Adam said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked." So, in case there was any doubt about that, that's why. "And God said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Did you eat of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that you should not eat?" This is where Adam shows himself in all his post-fall, heroic glory: "And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat."
So that's man. Again, there's a modern feminist interpretation of the story of Adam and Eve that makes the claim that Eve was portrayed as the universal bad guy of humanity for disobeying God and eating the apple. It’s like, fair enough. It looks like she slipped up, and then she tempted her husband, and that makes her even worse—although, he was foolish enough to immediately eat, so it just means that she was a little more courageous than him and got there first.
It’s Adam who comes across as really one sad creature in this story, as far as I'm concerned. Look at what he manages in one sentence: First of all, it wasn’t him; it was the woman. Second, he even blames God! It wasn’t just the woman— "and you gave her to me! And she gave me of the tree, and I did eat." It’s like, hey, Adam’s all innocent—except now, not only is he naked, disobedient, cowardly, and ashamed, he’s also a snivelling, backbiting fink. He rats her out like the second he gets the opportunity, and then he blames God. That’s exactly right. You go online, and you read the commentary that men write about women when they're resentful and bitter about women. It’s so interesting. It’s like, it’s not me: it’s those bitches. It’s not me: it’s them—and not only that, but what a bloody world this is in which they exist. It’s exactly the same thing. It’s exactly the same thing, and it is absolutely pathetic.
I think that's a pretty brutal takedown of incels tbh. Anyway, his lecture series on the old testament is really good. He makes some pretty out-there claims, but he really makes you appreciate these paragraphs-long stories that are the bedrock of a lot of our civilization and offer a lot of universal truths thousands of years later.