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Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson
Canadian Psychologist
Born: Jun 12, 1962
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Related authors: Abraham Maslow B. F. Skinner Carl Jung Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Erich Fromm Sigmund Freud Viktor E. Frankl Wayne Dyer
The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory. Jordan Peterson
History Women Throughout Idea Were Oppressed Appalling Theory
Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period. Jordan Peterson
Period Dependent Ever
Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell. Jordan Peterson
Lie Hell Lying About Leads Anything Ever
Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization. Jordan Peterson
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It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over. Jordan Peterson
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Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me. Jordan Peterson
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It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it's in the nature of hierarchy. Jordan Peterson
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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? Jordan Peterson
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I've known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that's so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn't you take university courses throughout your entire life? Jordan Peterson
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It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that. Jordan Peterson
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You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to. Jordan Peterson
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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. Jordan Peterson
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I don't really regard myself as a political figure. Jordan Peterson
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I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that's true to some degree. Jordan Peterson
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I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more. Jordan Peterson
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Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left. Jordan Peterson
Radical Obviously Left Fan
My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists. Jordan Peterson
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I've done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I've done it, it's been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history. Jordan Peterson
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If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis. Jordan Peterson
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The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing. Jordan Peterson
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Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved. Jordan Peterson
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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. Jordan Peterson
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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. Jordan Peterson
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If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, 'No.' Jordan Peterson
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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. Jordan Peterson
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As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight. Jordan Peterson
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