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Jordan Peterson

Get your act together!
Have a vision!
Straighten our your life!
Say what you think!
Stay away from the ideological idiocies and simplicity and oversimplifications and try to put yourself together!

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Jim Rohn

Become a good reader!

All of the successful people I know and work with around the world they're all good readers. Curiosity drives them to read. They have got to know. They just read read read read ... Become a good reader!

Jim Rohn
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Jordan Peterson

If you are a group of isolated humans and you meet another group of isolated humans and you trade pathogens there's a real possibility that you and everyone you know are going to be dead in no time flat

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Jim Rohn

God has designed that the major part of the value of our life Is left to our own mental genius. You have got to decide what you want to become. Then you have to simply go do it, engaging in the disciplines

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Jim Rohn

Whatever your hands currently find to do, do it with all your might. Whatever you are doing do it with all your might. We call that "philosophy on activity". How hard should you work? - As hard as you can!

Jim Rohn
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Jordan Peterson

"Let's just destroy the past" - No! That would be like saying well you don't need a body anymore, because your body is the collected wisdom of the evolutionary process across three and a half billion years

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Jordan Peterson

I do believe that especially for the radical leftist types the whole notion of free speech among individuals is not only anathema but also something that is not possible within their framework of reference

Jordan Peterson
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Jordan Peterson

If you start to understand who you are, then you understand the Nazis. I can understand sex criminals. I can understand Nazis. And the reason for that is because I can see that as an aspect of myself, truly

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Jordan Peterson

To direct the market means to impose the heavy hand of the state and it's potential pathologies on the market but to leave it alone completely means that it wanders randomly through an indeterminate landscape

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Jordan Peterson

If you confront the world forthrightly, if you speak the truth and you expose yourself courageously to those things that you are afraid of then your life will improve and so will the life of people around you

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Jim Rohn

When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't play at work. Don't work at play. Make best use of your time. When you are working pour it on and when you are playing - have a good time, but don't play at work

Jim Rohn
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Jordan Peterson

When you start to realize how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that's a horrifying realization and it can easily be 95% of you. Things you say, things you act out ...

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Jordan Peterson

You want to have a life that's so engaging that you think despite the fact that I am limited and that we are mortal and that life is tragedy and there is evil in the world, despite all that this is worth doing

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Jim Rohn

Make sure you're winning the war / defend all the good you start!

Just be on the lookout of the things that can destroy all the good you start. The war is on. And this evening, tomorrow, mentally, personally, socially, economically, you got to make sure you're winning the war

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Jim Rohn

The problem is lack of an idea on how to create money and wealth. It isn't lack of money it's lack of ideas so if you get the idea so you can change anything. To get ideas you need a constant study of finding out

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Jim Rohn

It's important to make the past useful. Past experience, even past losses, past failures, as well as successes, to review it, go back over it, see where you went wrong, correct that, invest that now in the future

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Jordan Peterson

How powerful the human spirit can be if it's willing to take on the obligation of it's relationship with the devine.
And also how terrible things can become if the responsibility of that burden is not shouldered

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Jordan Peterson

Anything that's outside of the hierarchy is a threat. Any stranger, any strange idea, any animal manifestation, any noise, any spirit,.. it's a threat to the integrity of the dominance hierarchy in many many ways

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Jordan Peterson

The world is full of darkness. Each of us have a little bit of light. If we release that light, if we shine properly... The world is a lesser place if you don't reveal from within yourself what you have to reveal

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Jim Rohn

Many people work hard on their job but they don't work hard on their future. They just let that slide. And the work involved is making plans. I know most people don't. I understand that. But don't let that be you!

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Jordan Peterson

Differences at the extreme are where the differences really start to manifest themselves. So you can have a small difference at the level of the average but out at the extremes it starts to make massive difference

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Jordan Peterson

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

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Jordan Peterson

Motivation driven by necessity

One of the advantages of zero is that you're driven by brute necessity and that can really be motivating. That's I think why the children of first generation immigrants often do so well. They're driven by necessity

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Jim Rohn

You don't have to go to Iraq to lose your life

You don't have to go to Iraq to lose your life. You don't have to be evil to lose your life. All you have to be is a little careless at an unfortunate moment. So the key is to be not over cautious but to be cautious

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