Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
JORDAN PETERSONExperience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
JORDAN PETERSONThere’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
JORDAN PETERSONWorthlessness is the default condition.
JORDAN PETERSONIt’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
JORDAN PETERSONStop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
JORDAN PETERSONTo 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.
JORDAN PETERSONAristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
JORDAN PETERSONYou should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
JORDAN PETERSONYou remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
JORDAN PETERSONAnd if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
JORDAN PETERSONYou’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.
JORDAN PETERSONThat which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
JORDAN PETERSONPerhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
JORDAN PETERSONTruth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
JORDAN PETERSONUntruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
JORDAN PETERSONI’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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