Jordan Peterson - Quotes
You have to work to take care of yourself and what you want in this moment but then there's you tomorrow, and there's you next week and there's you next month the next year, ten years from now and when you are old... So because you are self-conscious and because you are aware of the future you are actually a community unto yourself. And if you are selfish and impulse all that means is that you are serving the person you are right now in that impulsive way but not the person you are going to be. That's not a good ground for any sort of ethical behavior
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson - Quotes
Power in a hierarchy is the right way to be. Human hierarchies are very complex and that the way that you win human hierarchy is by being competent and reciprocal
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson - Quotes
Every single person who sets out to put themselves together ethically is a net positive to everyone around them. There is no downside to that
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson - Quotes
If you overestimate your abilities you're in deep trouble because you're gonna get a wake-up call. Objectivity is one of the most critical aspects of development. You have to be objectively assessing your strength and weaknesses at every step of the way
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson - Quotes
One of the most deadly things for a fighter to do is to overestimate his own position
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson - Quotes
As the technology is supplanted the ideological polarization increases as the thing dies
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson - Quotes
Big things disappear when they get crooked and ideologically rigid
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson - Quotes
When you edit someone and take their words out of context and change them around you are being deceptive
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson - Quotes
Maybe ten times as many people can listen to complex information as can read complex information in terms of their ability to process it
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson - Quotes
Spoken word is now as powerful as the written word. That's never happened in human history
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson - Quotes
It's not necessarily a mistake to lay yourself open to attack because sometimes it reveals the motives of the attackers
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson - Quotes
We can't have equality of outcome amongst people with lower than 83 IQs
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson - Quotes
The only thing that's worse than the pain of inequality is the pain of forced equality
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson - Quotes
The envious and the resentful can use compassion as a camouflage for their true intent which is to tear down anyone who has more than them
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson - Quotes
You're not perfect man. There's hatred in you. And the probability that it's more powerful than love is pretty damn high. Look to your own viewpoint before you go out there and try to fix the hierarchies of the world
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson - Quotes
What happens If you get rid of the hierarchy
If you get rid of the hierarchy you get rid of the value structure, you get rid of the tools that allow us to generate absolute wealth and stop people from starving it's catastrophe. You have to have the hierarchy
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson - Quotes
As the societies get more egalitarian the differences between men and women get bigger. You make the societies more egalitarian men and women get more different
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson - Quotes
Differences between men and women get more extreme at the ends of the distribution
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson - Quotes
A world of equality of outcome could not be achieved if there are actual differences between people
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson - Quotes
There's a tiny percentage of men who are hyper-competitive along those single axis of competition and maybe they drive most things. They probably do. But that doesn't make them right. It also doesn't make them most people
Jordan Peterson