You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
JORDAN PETERSONTo act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
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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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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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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.
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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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