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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.

Jordan Peterson

You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
JORDAN PETERSON

Improvement Perfection Savage Yourself
Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Emotion Yourself
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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Act Life Live Possible Value
Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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Deep Man Nature Perspective Woman
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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Lose Peace People Story
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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Believe Philosophy Thinking Understand Yourself
If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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Future Inspirational Satisfaction Yourself
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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Carry Character Development Dream Power Struggle
Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.
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Danger Existence Ideas Knowledge Mindset Power True
Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Philosophy Soul
There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together.
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Deep Failure People Way Wound
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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Change Greatness World
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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Born Death Destruction Force Learning
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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Gratitude History Reason World Yourself
You 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.
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Death Deep Life Time Wisdom
It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
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Happiness Success Yourself

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