The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
JORDAN PETERSONYou must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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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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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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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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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together.
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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.
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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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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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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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If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends.
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There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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What you aim at determines what you see.
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Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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