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The Dark Side
Humans are essentially full of darkness, and that is now visible in social media with the flood of hatred, abuse, and outrage.
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Psychology Professor Jordan Peterson's self-help book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos provides some out-of-the-box ways of living life, borrowing from the works of Nietzsche, Freud, Jung, and Dostoevsky, which are unconventional sources for this kind of work.
Happiness is just a side effect of good things happening. It is temporary, fleeting and unpredictable.
Do not make happiness into a constant desire or purpose.
Jordan Peterson believes that everyone is born with an instinct for ethics and meaning.
Build meaning in your life by being ethical and righteous. Being responsible and taking the right, noble path is the way.
Jordan Peterson’s view of the world around him is complex, and he tries to simplify this with books.
- We are just a speck in this huge, complex world, inviting us to be humble.
- Happiness, he says, is a pointless goal,
- Only compare yourself with your yesterday,...
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"You could help direct the world, on its careening trajectory, a bit more toward heaven and a bit more away from Hell. Once having understood Hell, researched it, so to speak–particularly your own individual Hell–you could decide against going there or creating that. You could aim elsewhere. Y...
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Jordan Peterson describes race as “post-modernist“ and claims that “white privilege” is instead “majority privilege” in a country founded by a white majority.
In doing so he overlooks empathy, the cascade of further unintended benefits Caucasians came to enjoy and that America was f...
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A certain amount of creativity and rebellion must be tolerated - or welcomed, depending on your point of view - to maintain the process of regeneration. Every rule was once a creative act, breaking other rules.
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