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 PETERSONWe 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 PETERSONThe 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.
JORDAN PETERSONYou 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.
JORDAN PETERSONThat the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
JORDAN PETERSONIf you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
JORDAN PETERSONTo 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.
JORDAN PETERSONThus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
JORDAN PETERSONOrder 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.
JORDAN PETERSONThat’s poetic in its malevolence.
JORDAN PETERSONI don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
JORDAN PETERSONWe are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
JORDAN PETERSONDon’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.
JORDAN PETERSONAssume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
JORDAN PETERSONPet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
JORDAN PETERSONMuch of happiness is hope.
JORDAN PETERSONIt is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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