Canadian - Psychologist | June 12, 1962 -
In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.
Jordan Peterson
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My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.
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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.
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I suppose for a very long time I've been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.
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Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.
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I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.
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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.
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It's a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they're almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.
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If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.
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You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.
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I could hardly sit through 'Frozen.' There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.
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The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.
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