Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
JORDAN PETERSONThus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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Much of happiness is hope.
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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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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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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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There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
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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. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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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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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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