You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
JORDAN PETERSONAssume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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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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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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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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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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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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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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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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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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