You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
JORDAN PETERSONTerritory 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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The purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.
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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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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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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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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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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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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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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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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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