Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
JORDAN PETERSONIt is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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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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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
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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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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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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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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were 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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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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If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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The purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.
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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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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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