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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.

Jordan Peterson

So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.
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Knowledge Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
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
When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations – in the depths—it’s noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.
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Existence Thinking Tolerance
We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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Fall Reality World
what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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Limitation Love Person True
It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Care Protection Yourself
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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Dream Failure Live Philosophy
Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Emotion Yourself
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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Different Freedom Life Strength Worth
The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but are avoiding.
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Avoid Existence Right Secret Yourself
Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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Responsible Self Love Yourself
Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Person Yourself
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
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
Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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Care Worth Yourself
In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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Thinking Voice
If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends.
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Children Difficult Forever Friendship Learning
You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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Improvement Perfection Savage Yourself
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
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
If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Motivational Understand Yourself
Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Inspirational Sacrifice Self Love Worth
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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Danger Life Truth Yourself
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
Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Philosophy Soul
Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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Dream Light Philosophy Reason Travel
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

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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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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