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Jordan Peterson
Positive ancestral father
Jordan Peterson
If you put yourself in a new situation, then genes code for new proteins and build new neural structures and new nervous system structures. Same thing happens to some degree when you work out - your muscles are responding to the load. Your nervous system does that too. Imagine that there is a lot of potential you locked in your genetic code and then if you put yourself in a new situation then the situational stress unlocks those genes and then builds new parts of you. And so that's very cool because who knows how much there is locked inside of you
Jordan Peterson
As you move towards the goal there are certain things that you have to accomplish that frighten you. Maybe you have to learn to be a better speaker, a better writer, a better thinker, you have to be better to people around you or you have to learn some new skills and you are afraid of that... whatever. Because it's going to stretch you if you pursue a goal and so that will put you up against challenges
Jordan Peterson
Rescue your father from the belly of the whale
Jordan Peterson
The fundamental measurement of unit is the individual and the fundamental task of the individual is to engage in the process of humble self-improvement
Jordan Peterson
What's the antidote to the tragedy and malevolence of life?
Jordan Peterson
How do you know when you are incrementally self improving?
Jordan Peterson
I don't know what to do
Jordan Peterson
You could be way better! You could be incompatibly better across multiple dimensions and in pursuing that better that's where you'll find the meaning in your life and that would give you the antidote to the suffering
Jordan Peterson
Are you okay the way you are?
Jordan Peterson
Your best strategic position is how am I insufficient and how can I rectify that. That's what you've got. And the thing is you are insufficient and you could rectify it. Both of those are within your grasp if you aim low enough
Jordan Peterson
Where is the meaning to be found?
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What's the right way of being in the world?
Jordan Peterson
Could you be slightly better tomorrow than you're currently flawed self?
Jordan Peterson
What is personal responsibility?
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What is lesser self?
Jordan Peterson
If you are improving yourself then what you are doing is competing with your lesser self
Jordan Peterson
If you want to compete fairly with someone then you should be competing with you
Jordan Peterson
The question is - who should you defeat in the final analysis? The answer is - you should defeat your former self. You should be constantly trying to do that. And you are the right control for yourself to because you're the one who's had all your advantages and disadvantages. So if you want to compete fairly with someone then you should be competing with you
Jordan Peterson
What does the person who loses something important with grace do?
Jordan Peterson
The great athlete and the great person is not only someone who's exceptionally skilled at what they do but who's trying to expand their skills at all times and the attempt to expand their skills at all times is even more important than the fact that they're great to begin with because the trajectory is so important
Jordan Peterson
Get the hell out of where you are safe into what you don't know. You are going to find the catastrophes of life but if you keep yourself morally oriented and you make the right sacrifices then you can transcend the catastrophe of being and prevail
Jordan Peterson
Many people don't want to bear the responsibility of developing themselves as individuals
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!
Jordan Peterson
People can improve themselves I think to a degree that we don't understand. Because a human being for better or worse is something potential as well as something actual
Jim Rohn
If you learn ...
Jim Rohn
Learn all you can! We are affected by what we know so get the information. Don't be lazy in learning. Don't be lazy in going through the books, building your library, coming to classes like this consistently, consistently. Some of them will be so dramatic your life will never be the same
Jim Rohn
Our lives are greatly affected by what we learn and what we know
Jim Rohn
Read all the books! There's millions of books so you can't read all the books but read all the books you need to read to make you as wealthy as you want to be, as healthy as you want to be, as prosperous, as productive, as unique human being as you want to be. Don't leave those books go unread
Jim Rohn
Be a selective listener! Listen to voices of value that have experience, ideas, reputation, something valuable to share
Jim Rohn
Pay attention!
Jim Rohn
If you'll start making personal changes your income will change, your health will change, your future will change. Everything will change If you're willing to start making the changes
Jim Rohn
If you will change, everything will change for you!
Jim Rohn
Wake up call
Jim Rohn
Become a good reader!
Jim Rohn
Get excited like a child over your ability to make yourself do anything for change
Jim Rohn
If you wish to be successful study success! If you wish to be happy study happiness! If you wish to be wealthy study wealsh! Don't leave it to chance, make it a study! Some people just go through the day with their fingers crossed. See that won't do it. You've got to study the things that can change your economic, social, spiritual personal life!
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
Jim Rohn
You can't do what you don't know. But the key is to keep learning so that good ideas keep occurring to you - now you can do more wise things. But philosophy is where it all begins - what you know
Jim Rohn
For things to change for you, you have to change