Canadian - Psychologist | June 12, 1962 -
To master a new technology, you have to play with it.
Jordan Peterson
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Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.
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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.
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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.'
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There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.
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Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous.
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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.
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Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth... That's the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.
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I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.
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The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.
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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.
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Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.
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