You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
JORDAN PETERSONI don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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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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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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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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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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Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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