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 PETERSONOld age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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What you aim at determines what you see.
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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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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It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world – a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one – is to fix yourself.
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When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations – in the depths—it’s noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.
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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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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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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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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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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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