There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
JORDAN PETERSONIf you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Much of happiness is hope.
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
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Worthlessness is the default condition.
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