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Jordan Peterson

Canadian Psychologist

Born: Jun 12, 1962

Life People Think Truth Women You

Related authors: Abraham Maslow B. F. Skinner Carl Jung Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Erich Fromm Sigmund Freud Viktor E. Frankl Wayne Dyer

Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday. Jordan Peterson

You Yourself People Yesterday Other Were Who Compare

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. Jordan Peterson

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I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don't know exactly what's going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what's inside of them without being part of them. Jordan Peterson

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Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open. Jordan Peterson

Life Eyes Responsibility Open Terrible Accept Wide

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.' Jordan Peterson

You People Way Okay Tell Could Than Story Less Right

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. Jordan Peterson

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life. Jordan Peterson

Life Responsibility Own Take No-One Gets Anything Your Away Ever

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. Jordan Peterson

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It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words. Jordan Peterson

You Words Own Find Until Exist Very Your Hard Actually

If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards. Jordan Peterson

You People Backwards Push Happens Then Stand Your Ground

All things considered, there's nobody better for children than parents. Jordan Peterson

Better Parents Considered All Things Nobody Than Children Things

To me, ideology is corrupt; it's a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you're an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you're religious, there's a mystery left there. Jordan Peterson

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To master a new technology, you have to play with it. Jordan Peterson

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We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they're stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another. Jordan Peterson

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Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail? Jordan Peterson

Relationship You Reality Assuming Fail How False Anything Such A Thing Thing

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that's being pushed in a manner in schools that's completely reprehensible. It's not education, in my estimation. It's a form of indoctrination. Jordan Peterson

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'Happiness' is a pointless goal. Jordan Peterson

Happiness Pointless Goal

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity. Jordan Peterson

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The right-wingers 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. Jordan Peterson

People Will Some People Think Jobs Trick Some Admit Itself Want

The book, '12 Rules For Life,' is a very serious book. There's elements of humor in it, but I'm trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it's necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there's hell to pay if you don't do that. Jordan Peterson

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Become aware of your own insufficiency. Jordan Peterson

Become Own Your Aware

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