Book Byte #202 "12 Rules for Life" by Jordan Peterson

An Antidote to Chaos

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?? Curious Quotes from the Author

“When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”

“To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).”

“You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.”

“And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.”

“It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you're going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.”

“To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.”

“No tree can grow to Heaven,” adds the ever-terrifying Carl Gustav Jung, psychoanalyst extraordinaire, “unless its roots reach down to Hell.”

“Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.”

“Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being. As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, “He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.”

“Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.”

“So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them—at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.”

“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”

?? Cognition of the Book’s Big Idea

Life is a never-ending battle full of hardships, and if there's one thing you can be sure of in this life, it's that there will probably be more problems on the horizon. But even in these transient moments, there is beauty and delight to be found. All you can do is give it your all, stay true to yourself, and refrain from being arrogant and self-centered. It's also critical to accept accountability for your situation in life and to stop blaming the outside environment or other people for your failures. In the end, you are the only one who can make life better.

Consider, "How was I wrong?" Although the solution may not please you, this is a method to keep becoming better and remaining honest. You may continue to strive to be a better person and experience the satisfaction of daily improvement if you ask yourself this question on a frequent basis.

??Collaborative Insight for Techies

Vision is important to our Careers, our Families and our Relationships. If we don’t have vision of who we are and who we can become, we become whoever we are around. If we hang out with bad actors who don’t have our best interests at heart, we adopt that mentality and usually commit the same atrocities that they do.

Vision is the armor you need to stay true to yourself and always make the right decisions for you and your self worth.

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