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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.

Jordan Peterson

You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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Future Past Preparation Remember Yourself
It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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Control Yourself
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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Lose Peace People Story
People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Expectation People Togetherness World
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 you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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Future Inspirational Satisfaction Yourself
Worthlessness is the default condition.
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Condition Worth
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
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
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
You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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Improvement Perfection Savage Yourself
Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Philosophy Soul
Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Different Effort Life
The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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Greatness Reality Survive
Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Value Worth Yourself
If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Born Kill Thinking Yourself

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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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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