In retrospect I probably shouldn't have made such a claim, since I really don't know much about Jordan Peterson and his views.

Most of what I've seen is him motivating and trying to help young/lost men, which seems like an admirable cause.

It turns out directly helping people matters more than writing hifalutin papers about helping people.

I have 0 idea what this is trying to say.

Is his academic past bad because it is highfaluting? Or is the outcome justify the means and helping people is ok even if you also cause a lot of problems along the way?

Also, giving advice through books is indirectly helping them, he is not making your bed, he is telling you to do it. Directly is going the way of literally to just mean emphasis