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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.

Jordan Peterson

Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Emotion Yourself
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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Born Death Destruction Force Learning
Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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Beautiful Death Philosophy Shame Strength Weakness
Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
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Enough Important Learning Secure
What you aim at determines what you see.
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One Liner Perspective See Yourself
Worthlessness is the default condition.
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Condition Worth
And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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Danger Deep Man Thinking Weakness Yourself
It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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Harm Mental Oneself Virtue
Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.
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Change Greatness World
Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.
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Direction Inspirational Opportunity Power Transformation
The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Future Success
When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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Lie Silence Voice Yourself
Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Person Yourself
what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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Limitation Love Person True
You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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Future Past Preparation Remember Yourself
Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Philosophy Soul

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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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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