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.
JORDAN PETERSONEvery 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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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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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.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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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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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Worthlessness is the default condition.
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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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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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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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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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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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