Quotes from Jordan B. Peterson

Since the ideologue can place him or herself on the morally correct side of the equation without the genuine effort necessary to do so validly, it is much easier and more immediately gratifying to reduce the problem to something simple and accompany it with an evildoer, who can then be morally opposed.

If you wait instead until what you are refusing to investigate comes a-knocking at your door, things will certainly not go so well for you. What you least want will inevitably happen—and when you are least prepared. What you least want to encounter will make itself manifest when you are weakest and it is strongest. And you will be defeated.

Un acontecimiento significativo existe en la frontera entre el orden y el caos.

Skinner observed the animals he was training to perform such acts with exceptional care. Any actions that approximated what he was aiming at were immediately followed by a reward of just the right size: not small enough to be inconsequential, and not so large that it devalued future rewards. Such an approach can be used with children, and works very well.

Una información suficientemente novedosa transmitida verbalmente podría alterar el paradigma semántico, episódico y procedimental simultáneamente, aunque la totalidad de esos efectos podría no manifestarse durante años -y, no infrecuentemente, durante generaciones.

The soul willing to transform, as deeply as necessary, is the most effective enemy of the demonic serpents of ideology and totalitarianism, in their personal and social forms.

German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, "He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.

to those whose arrogant pride in intellect assured them they were always right.

La actitud tiránica mantiene a la sociedad en una predictibilidad homogénea y rígida, pero la condena a un derrumbamiento final.

or (this one is particularly evil) "to ensure that it is always my unloved child's fault." These are all examples of what Sigmund Freud's compatriot, the lesser-known Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler, called "life-lies."149

The healthy, dynamic, and above all else truthful personality will admit to error. It will voluntarily shed—let die—outdated perceptions, thoughts, and habits, as impediments to its further success and growth.

After breaking the world into large, undifferentiated pieces, describing the problem(s) that characterize each division, and identifying the appropriate villains, the ism theorist then generates a small number of explanatory principles or forces (which may indeed contribute in some part to the understanding or existence of those abstracted entities).

Do what is meaningful, not what is expedient.

However, I do not believe you should pursue happiness.

Uma transformação voluntária de morte e renascimento – a mudança necessária para a adaptação em face de coisas terríveis – é por isso uma solução para a rigidez, potencialmente fatal, da falsa certeza absoluta, da ordem em excesso e da rotina.

Our anxiety systems are very practical. They assume that anything you run away from is dangerous. The proof of that is, of course, the fact you ran away.

Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill." This is partly because time lasts forever, when you're two. Half an hour for me was a week for my son.

Everyone requires a story to structure their perceptions and actions in what would otherwise be the overwhelming chaos of being.

Before the dawn of the scientific worldview, reality was construed differently. Being was understood as a place of action, not a place of things.31 It was understood as something more akin to story or drama. That story or drama was lived, subjective experience, as it manifested itself moment to moment in the consciousness of every living person.

La seguridad de la sociedad predecible proporciona un antídoto al miedo, pero una sociedad demasiado rígida garantiza que tarde o temprano se producirá su propia destrucción.

He whose life has a why can bear almost any how."61

Aim at something. Pick the best target you can currently conceptualize. Stumble toward it. Notice your errors and misconceptions along the way, face them, and correct them.

Life is in truth very hard. Everyone is destined for pain and slated for destruction.

If you do so, you will run right into the iteration problem, because "happy" is a right-now thing. If you place people in situations where they are feeling a lot of positive emotion, they get present-focused and impulsive.