There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
JORDAN PETERSONDare, 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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What you aim at determines what you see.
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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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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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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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A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world – a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one – is to fix yourself.
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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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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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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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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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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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