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jordan peterson quotes on people
Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday. โJordan Peterson
You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to. โJordan Peterson Make friends with people who want the best for you. โJordan Peterson The rightโwingers don’t want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself will do the trick. โJordan Peterson
The way that you make people resilient is by voluntarily exposing them to things that they are afraid of and that make them uncomfortable. โJordan Peterson I don’t tell people, ‘You’re okay the way that you are.’ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‘You’re way less than you could be.’ โJordan Peterson The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood. โJordan Peterson
People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand. โJordan Peterson It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure. โJordan Peterson If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards. โJordan Peterson
I’m always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature. โJordan Peterson I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine. โJordan Peterson The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don’t want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence. โJordan Peterson
People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story. โJordan Peterson People have this capacity within them to set the world straight. โJordan Peterson It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80โhourโaโweek highโpowered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socioโeconomic status more than women. โJordan Peterson
I like workingโclass people, generally speaking. โJordan Peterson The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing. โJordan Peterson We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out. โJordan Peterson
It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate. โJordan Peterson If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons. โJordan Peterson Free speech is not just another value. It’s the foundation of Western civilization. โJordan Peterson
jordan peterson quotes on person
You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you. โJordan Peterson
The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities. โJordan Peterson I’m a practical person. I’m not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses. โJordan Peterson The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities. โJordan Peterson
If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I’ll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing. โJordan Peterson Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left. โJordan Peterson All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents. โJordan Peterson
If you’re a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis. โJordan Peterson Don’t be a slave to stupid rules. โJordan Peterson There were some great clinicians in the 20th centuryโgreat men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a geniusโthere’s a halfโdozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s. โJordan Peterson
If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self. When you have something to say, silence is a lie. โJordan Peterson I don’t really regard myself as a political figure. โJordan Peterson Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed. โJordan Peterson
jordan peterson quotes on women
The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory. โJordan Peterson
Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly. โJordan Peterson One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women! โJordan Peterson Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption. โJordan Peterson
jordan peterson quotes on learn
Humility is recognition of personal insufficiency and the willingness to learn. โJordan Peterson
If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it. โJordan Peterson It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over. โJordan Peterson If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue? โJordan Peterson
If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect. โJordan Peterson Love is the desire to see unnecessary suffering ameliorated. โJordan Peterson I’ve studied authoritarianism for a very long timeโfor 40 yearsโand they’re started by people’s attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory. โJordan Peterson
jordan peterson quotes on life
You can’t go backward in life. โJordan Peterson
No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life. โJordan Peterson Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming. โJordan Peterson He whose life has a why can bear almost any how. โJordan Peterson
Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering. โJordan Peterson Face the demands of life voluntarily. Respond to a challenge, instead of bracing for catastrophe. โJordan Peterson The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences. โJordan Peterson
The masculine spirit is under assault. It’s obvious. โJordan Peterson Can you imagine yourself in 10 years if, instead of avoiding the things you know you should do, you actually did them every single day? That’s powerful. โJordan Peterson The secret to your existence is right in front of you, and it manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but you’re avoiding. โJordan Peterson
Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated. โJordan Peterson If someone is making everyone around them miserable and you’d like to know why, their motive may simply be to make everyone around them miserable including themselves. โJordan Peterson It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp. โJordan Peterson
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Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it. โJordan Peterson To master a new technology, you have to play with it. โJordan Peterson Truth is the handmaiden of love. โJordan Peterson
It’s better to do something badly than to not do it at all. โJordan Peterson Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail? โJordan Peterson Everything isn’t political. โJordan Peterson
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Be grateful in spite of your suffering. โJordan Peterson If you’re going to be successful you need to be smart, conscientious, and tough. โJordan Peterson I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest. โJordan Peterson
It’s not just human nature to associate in tribes. It’s deeper than that. โJordan Peterson Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated. โJordan Peterson The successful among us delay gratification and bargain with the future. โJordan Peterson
It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city. โJordan Peterson Happiness’ is a pointless goal. โJordan Peterson When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation. โJordan Peterson
Become aware of your own insufficiency. โJordan Peterson Dialogue is the pathway to truth. โJordan Peterson Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me. โJordan Peterson
There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear. โJordan Peterson You can do an awful lot by writing down what happened to you and thinking it through. โJordan Peterson Whether the gods are inside or outside makes very little difference to whether there are gods. โJordan Peterson
My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists. โJordan Peterson It’s very hard to find your own wordsโand you don’t actually exist until you have your own words. โJordan Peterson Creative exploration [is] impossible, without (humble) acknowledgement of the unknown. โJordan Peterson
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today. โJordan Peterson Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell. โJordan Peterson Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient). โJordan Peterson
You’re not everything you could be, and you know it. โJordan Peterson I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch. โJordan Peterson If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future. โJordan Peterson
The success setup
Motivation & productivity Hacks and Mindsets from the most successful entrepreneurs.
