Quotes from Jordan B. Peterson

There is a responsibility that everyone can take up: we need to decide if we are going to collectively and individually tilt the world towards heaven or tilt it towards hell.

A good therapist will tell you the truth about what he thinks. (That is not the same thing as telling you that what he thinks is the truth.) Then

El reconocimiento del yo desnudo, expuesto de manera indigna a los estragos del tiempo y el mundo, insoportable y altamente motivador, condena al hombre y a la mujer a llevar una carga y a sufrir por la vida y la muerte.

Virtue signalling is not virtue. Virtue signalling is, quite possibly, our commonest vice.)

To hold the no excuse for physical punishment theory is also (fifth) to assume that the word no can be effectively uttered to another person in the absence of the threat of punishment.

Todos tenemos que asumir la máxima responsabilidad posible a nivel individual, de la sociedad y del mundo. Todos tenemos que decir la verdad, arreglar lo que está deteriorado y destruir y recrear lo que se ha quedado desfasado. Es así como podemos y debemos reducir el sufrimiento que envenena el mundo. Eso es pedir mucho. Es pedirlo todo.

True thinking is rare—just like true listening. Thinking is listening to yourself.

The verbal framework that helps us delimit the world is a consequence of the landscape of value that is constructed socially—but also bounded by the brute necessity of reality itself.

That is the moral of both narratives: follow the rules until you are capable of being a shining exemplar of what they represent, but break them when those very rules now constitute the most dire impediment to the embodiment of their central virtues.

Vice is easy. Failure is easy, too. It's easier not to shoulder a burden. It's easier not to think, and not to do, and not to care. It's easier to put off until tomorrow what needs to be done today, and drown the upcoming months and years in today's cheap pleasures. As the infamous father of the Simpson clan puts it, immediately prior to downing a jar of mayonnaise and vodka, "That's a problem for Future Homer. Man, I don't envy that guy!"66

Las personas que viven bajo el mismo código se predicen mutuamente. Actúan de tal forma que reproducen los deseos y expectativas de los demás. Pueden cooperar. Pueden incluso competir de forma pacífica, porque todos saben a qué atenerse. Un sistema de creencias compartidas, en parte psicológico y en parte representado, lo simplifica todo, a los ojos de esas mismas personas y de las demás.

Gender is constructed, but an individual who desires gender re-assignment surgery is to be unarguably considered a man trapped in a woman's body (or vice versa).

Así pues, la anomalía es -alimento- espiritual en el sentido más literal: lo desconocido es la materia prima a partir de la cual se fabrica la personalidad en el curso de la actividad exploratoria. El acto de rechazar la anomalía transforma la personalidad en algo hambriento, en algo senil y en algo cada vez más temeroso del cambio, pues cada fracaso a la hora de enfrentarse a la verdad erosiona la capacidad de enfrentarse a la verdad en el futuro.

That which we experience is better compared to a novel or a movie, which concentrates on the communication and sharing of subjective as well as objective states, than is reality as objective world, which we might liken to a scientific description of physical reality.

You are not only something that is. You are something that is becoming—and the potential extent of that becoming also transcends your understanding.

When you remember something, you simplify it, while retaining most of what is important. Thus, your memory can serve as a filter, removing what is useless and preserving and organizing what is vital. [Reconstructing and writing down your argument from memory] is distilling to its essence.

It is because our own experience is genuinely literary, narrative, embodied, and storylike that we are so attracted to fictional representations.

Even if I was "traumatized," what would be the point of having survived it only to have to pay someone else to complain to about it, rather than turn it into something positive?

What you hear in the forest but cannot see might be a tiger. It might even be a conspiracy of tigers, each hungrier and more vicious than the other, led by a crocodile. But it might not be, too. If you turn and look, perhaps you'll see that it's just a squirrel.

Our anxiety systems are very practical. They assume that anything you run away from is dangerous.

He who contrives, defeats his purpose; and he who is grasping, loses. The sage does not contrive to win, and therefore is not defeated; he is not grasping, so does not lose.138

Things fall apart of their own accord, but the sins of men speed their deterioration: that is wisdom from the ages. It

The poor and stressed always die first, and in greater numbers. They are also much more susceptible to non-infectious diseases, such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease. When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.

Or you could learn how to entice yourself into sustainable, productive activity. Do you ask yourself what you want? Do you negotiate fairly with yourself? Or are you a tyrant, with yourself as slave?