The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
JORDAN PETERSONIt’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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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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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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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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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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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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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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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
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The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.
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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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