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We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.

Jordan Peterson

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 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
You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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Future Past Preparation Remember Yourself
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
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
Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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Beautiful Death Philosophy Shame Strength Weakness
One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.
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Children Family Necessary Problem Rich
Worthlessness is the default condition.
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Condition Worth
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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Believe Dream World Yourself
Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Language One Liner
Stop 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.
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Action Stop Strong Weakness Yourself
Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
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Enough Important Learning Secure
It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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Harm Mental Oneself Virtue
Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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People Reality Willing
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
Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Animal Oneself
The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Future Success
That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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One Liner Poetry
Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.
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Death Different Life Right
You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
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Act Believe Thinking Yourself
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
It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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Company Improvement Live People Yourself
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
Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Children Safety Strong Yourself
True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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Deep One Liner Thinking True
Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Reality Search
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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Life Philosophy Purpose

We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.

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We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.

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