Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
JORDAN PETERSONWe are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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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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What you aim at determines what you see.
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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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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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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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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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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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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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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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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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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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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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