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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.

Jordan Peterson

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
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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Life Philosophy Purpose
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
Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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Responsible Self Love Yourself
That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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Believe Life Need Yourself
Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Destruction Power Sin
Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Value Worth Yourself
Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Beginning Responsible Yourself
But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
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Dream Failure Live Philosophy
Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Person Yourself
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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Happiness Success Yourself
If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Motivational Understand Yourself
Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Reality Search
Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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Dream Light Philosophy Reason Travel
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
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

The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.

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