Rule 8: Tell the truth or at least don't lie
Don't underestimate the power of your speech, the power of truth.
There's nothing more powerful.
To speak what you might regard as the truth, you have to let go of the outcome.
Nothing brings a better world into being than the stated truth. You might have to pay a price for that.
But that's fine - you're gonna pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do, he says. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take that’s it.
You want to pay the price for being who you are, not the price for being a slave.
17
17 reads
CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
Some of these rules, namely 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, and 12, are truly transforming my life. As young adults, it is easy to feel so disorganized, to feel lost, and without anything concrete to grasp. These rules, or more worldview suggestions, offer me something that I can firmly believe in and test out in my very real, chaotic life. After all, these ideas are someone's antidote to chaos. And now, some of them are mine. I hope you can find them as useful as I have!
“
The idea is part of this collection:
Learn more about books with this collection
Conducting effective interviews
Identifying the right candidates for the job
Creating a positive candidate experience
Related collections
Similar ideas to Rule 8: Tell the truth or at least don't lie
You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
JORDAN B. PETERSON
Rule 08: Tell the Truth, or at least Don’t Lie
To lie is to use language to bend the world into delivering what one thinks is necessary. Only a hopeless philosophy insists that reality can be improved through falsification.
To accept the truth means to sacrifice—and if you have rejected the truth for a long time, then you’ve r...
High Value at a Low Price
- Price = what you pay.
- Value = what you get.
You lose money when the price you pay does not match the value you're getting. For example, when you're paying high interest on credit card debt or spending on stuff you hardly use.
...Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates