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 PETERSONAssume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Worthlessness is the default condition.
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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.
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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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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.
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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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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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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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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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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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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.
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