Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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.
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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 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.
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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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It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
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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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If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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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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If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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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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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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