12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson 📖

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Be precise in your speech. Speech can give structure and re-establish order.

Violence, is no mystery. It’s peace that’s the mystery. Violence is the default. It’s easy. It’s peace that is difficult: learned, inculcated, earned.

There’s no quick pathways from smart to wise.

Life isn’t supposed to be happy or fair. Life is supposed to be meaningful.

People think they think, but it’s not true. It’s mostly self-criticism that passes for thinking.

Failure is the price we pay for standards and, because mediocrity has consequences both real and harsh, standards are necessary.

If your life is not what it could be, try telling the truth.

If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don’t need to worry about the future.

I can live with no responsibility whatsoever, but the price I pay is that nothing matters. Or I can reverse it and everything matters, but I have to take the responsibility that is associated with that.

Everyone needs a concrete, specific goal — an ambition, and a purpose — to limit chaos and make intelligible sense of his or her life.

There is no faith and no courage and no sacrifice in doing what is expedient.

You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself.

It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.

What you aim at determines what you see.

Worthlessness is the default condition.

Your life becomes meaningful in precise proportion to the depths of the responsibility you are willing to shoulder.

Every person is deeply flawed.

If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don’t need to worry about the future.

In order to think you have to risk being offensive.

It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world — a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one — is to fix yourself.