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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.

Jordan Peterson

Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Beginning Responsible Yourself
True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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Deep One Liner Thinking True
Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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Responsible Self Love Yourself
It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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Company Improvement Live People Yourself
When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations – in the depths—it’s noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.
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Existence Thinking Tolerance
We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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Fall Reality World
The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Future Success
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
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
We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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Direction World
Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Man Simplicity Truth Word
Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Language One Liner
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
It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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Better Protection Yourself
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
There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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Game Play Success

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