Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
JORDAN PETERSONThere are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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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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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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What you aim at determines what you see.
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Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.
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One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.
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I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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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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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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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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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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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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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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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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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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Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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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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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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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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