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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?

Jordan Peterson

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.
JORDAN PETERSON

Believe Philosophy Thinking Understand Yourself
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.
JORDAN PETERSON

Act Life Live Possible Value
It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
JORDAN PETERSON

Company Improvement Live People Yourself
Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.
JORDAN PETERSON

Danger Existence Ideas Knowledge Mindset Power True
Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
JORDAN PETERSON

Philosophy Soul
We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
JORDAN PETERSON

Deep God Value Worth
We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.
JORDAN PETERSON

Believe Important Responsibility Truth
It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
JORDAN PETERSON

Control Yourself
Worthlessness is the default condition.
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Condition Worth
If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
JORDAN PETERSON

Inspirational Success Yourself
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
People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
JORDAN PETERSON

Lose Peace People Story
If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
JORDAN PETERSON

Born People Reality
That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
JORDAN PETERSON

Believe Life Need Yourself
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.
JORDAN PETERSON

Change Greatness World
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.
JORDAN PETERSON

Act Choice Pay Philosophy Poison Yourself

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