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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.

Jordan Peterson

Order 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.
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Enough Important Learning Secure
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
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
There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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Danger Goodness Gratitude Protection Reality Victim
Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Value Worth Yourself
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
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
Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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Responsible Self Love Yourself
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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Carry Character Development Dream Power Struggle
Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Animal Oneself
You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
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Deserve Destiny Important People Respect Worth Yourself
Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Person Yourself
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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Believe Philosophy Thinking Understand Yourself
You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
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Act Choice Pay Philosophy Poison Yourself
Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Man Simplicity Truth Word
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
Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Philosophy Soul
See the truth. Tell the truth.
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Minimalism One Liner See Truth
Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Emotion Yourself
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.
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Believe Dream World Yourself
You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
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Direction Inspirational Life Yourself
Always place your becoming above your current being.
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Improvement Inspirational Place Self Love
Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Children Safety Strong Yourself
Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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Deep Man Nature Perspective Woman
Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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Experience Lesson Teaching Worst
The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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Greatness Reality Survive
Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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Happiness Life Virtue

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