Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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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If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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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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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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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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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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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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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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People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
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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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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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