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I have a lot of ambivalence about Jordan Peterson but there's a lot to chew over in this:

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it's really useful to investigate the viewpoints of people who have opposing views to yours because they'll tell you things - not only will they tell you things you don't know it'll also tell you how to see the world in ways that you don't see it and they'll also have skills that you don't have

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but agreeable people especially if they're really agreeable, are so agreeable that they often don't even know what they want because they're so accustomed to living for other people, to finding out what other people want and to trying to make them comfortable and so forth that it's harder for them to find a sense of their own desires as they move through life

This one especially is on my mind, as I try and explore if "anhedonia" - not feeling pleasures as sharply as most folks - might be cause rather than an effect of my "group think" and looking to objective corectness through the group.