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Jordan Bernt Peterson (born June 12, 1962) is a Canadian clinical psychologist at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (1999), 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (2017), Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life (2021) and We Who Wrestle With God (2024)
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There's no difference between the conquering of the unknown and the creation of habitable order.
Do you want to be what you are or do you want to be what continually changes what you are?
Every explorer is therefore, by necessity, a revolutionary, and every successful revolutionary is a peacemaker.
Maps of Meaning (1999)
You do not choose what interests you. It chooses you.
Beyond Order (2021)
We're such strange creatures, because we don't really fit into Being in some sense, and that's what's expressed in the notion of The Fall.
The eternal dragon is always giving our fallen-down castles a rough time—always.
First stop lying, then start speaking the truth.
Freud was, after all, a genius. You can tell that because people still hate him.
Here's how you can tell someone is your friend: A) You can tell them bad news, and they'll listen. B) You can tell them good news, and they'll help you celebrate.
People organize their brains with conversation. If they don't have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
Much that is great starts small, ignorant, and useless. […] But today’s beginner is tomorrow’s master.
Beyond Order (2021)
People camouflage against the herd. People aren't after happiness, they're after not hurting.
Learn from the past. Or repeat its horrors, in imagination, endlessly.
Beyond Order (2021)
Most of the adventure genre is about how there is some enemy that's lurking, and someone rises up to confront it and maintain order. There's no getting away from that story.
I think it is reasonable to posit that it is often the people who have had too easy a time—who have been pampered and elevated falsely in their self-esteem—who adopt the role of victim and the mien of resentment.
Beyond Order (2021)
Grief must be a reflection of love. It is perhaps the ultimate proof of love. Grief is an uncontrollable manifestation of your belief that the lost person’s existence, limited and flawed as it might have been, was worthwhile, despite the limitations and flaws even of life itself.
Beyond Order (2021)
If you can't even clean up your own room, who the hell are you to give advice to the world?
Message to Milennials: How to Change the World – Properly (2016)
I have camped where the grizzly bears were plentiful. It is nice that they are on the planet and all that, but I prefer my grizzlies shy, not too hungry, and far enough away to be picturesque.
Beyond Order (2021)
Proof itself, of any sort, is impossible, without an axiom (as Gödel proved). Thus faith in God is a prerequisite for all proof.
You can kill people with compassion.
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