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Beyond Order

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by Jordan B. Peterson

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Becoming Who You Could Be

Becoming Who You Could Be

We have vast untapped potential within us beyond who we currently are.

Consciously deciding who you want to become in your ideal form and then aiming single-mindedly at that gives life meaning and forward momentum.

Trade complacency and routine for a voluntary transformation through rediscovering exploring your latent talents and rebirth.

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Confronting the Shadow

Confronting the Shadow

  • Don't hide unwanted emotions, flaws, and unsavory motivations in a fog of willful blindness.
  • Have courage to look unflinchingly inside at your capacity for malevolence alongside good.
  • Integrate your full self through radical truth and self-understanding.
  • What you most wish to hide from yourself holds key truths.

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Taking Responsibility

Taking Responsibility

The quintessential source of positive emotion is taking responsibility - defining goals and projects, then making progress.

Turn and confront the difficulties of the future rather than hiding; reduce suffering.

Stand up straight with your shoulders back and enjoy the journey.

Where responsibility is abdicated, there is opportunity.

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Noticing Abdicated Responsibility

Noticing Abdicated Responsibility

  • Notice where responsibility has been shirked and take it upon yourself to set things right instead of blaming others.
  • Step up to address problems rather than carping from the sidelines.
  • Approach issues needing leadership with the desire to make things better through your efforts.

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Refusing What You Hate

Refusing What You Hate

If you feel contempt and inauthenticity doing something merely to maintain superficial order and expectations, pause and seriously reconsider.

  • Minor moral transgressions snowball when left unaddressed. Listen to your conscience.
  • Refuse what you know to be wrong.
  • Speak truth.

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Rejecting Ideology

Rejecting Ideology

Beware of resentful us-versus-them ideologies that distort truth. Maintain humility about your own flaws.

The enemy is often biases within our own minds.

Set your own house in perfect order before self-righteously criticizing others as the problem. Change begins from within.

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Working with Diligence

Working with Diligence

Aiming intensely at a precise goal or vision fuels you with meaning and drive. If you aim at nothing, you'll be plagued by distractions and drift through life.

Decide what you want, plan, and work diligently. Imperfect action beats perfect indecision. Value conscious effort.

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Appreciating Beauty

Appreciating Beauty

Art expands vision, cultivates the soul, and connects us to the transcendent. Making something beautiful is intrinsically meaningful, not just a means to an end.

Don't become so task-driven that you lose touch with beauty and degrade into soulless cynicism. What we aim at determines what we perceive.

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Integrating Painful Memories

Integrating Painful Memories

  • Unresolved, unprocessed painful memories from your past disrupt your present self.
  • Carefully deconstruct those memories to understand them, then integrate them into your story.
  • This frees you from lingering pain and anger.
  • Old ghosts must be confronted to move forward.

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Maintaining Relationship Romance

Maintaining Relationship Romance

  • Consciously plan enjoyable activities to nurture romance, fun, intimacy, and deep trust in a long-term relationship.
  • Dishonesty and poor communication erode foundations.
  • Protect your shared journey through openness. Invest when apart to sustain when together.

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Avoiding Resentment and Arrogance

Avoiding Resentment and Arrogance

  • Understand that good and evil exist within all people, including yourself.
  • Maintain hope in human potential while accepting flaws realistically, not cynically.
  • Bitter resentment and blind arrogance breed hatred.
  • Integrate your full humanity compassionately.

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Gratitude Despite Suffering

Gratitude Despite Suffering

Suffering is inevitable in our imperfect world. But you can choose to be grateful anyway. Courageously give thanks even in the midst of life's catastrophes; do not become bitter.

Suffering is in the mind. Find meaning through responsibility despite adversity.

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JORDAN PETERSON

If you don't say what you think then you kill your unborn self.

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JORDAN PETERSON

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

JORDAN PETERSON

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CURATOR'S NOTE

In Beyond Order, Jordan Peterson provides philosophical insights on taking responsibility to find meaning, confront suffering, and live an ethical life. He offers principles to counter chaos and develop character.

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