“it is so easy for us to demonize those people who are our enemies because our enemies confront us with what we don't want to see. And because of that our first response is to use snake detection circuitry on them.” YoutubeBiblical SeriesHdrlq7dpiws Author:Jordan B. Peterson
“trust is an unbelievably powerful economic force maybe the most powerful economic force” YoutubeBiblical SeriesHdrlq7dpiws Author:Jordan B. Peterson
“A single watch or clock can be a powerful influence on a man, but when a man lives among as many watches and clocks as crowded the tiny, dim shop of Mr Gonzales, some lagging behind, some skipping ahead, but all ticking monotonously on in their witless fashion, the multitude of them may be likely to deprive them of importance, as a gem loses its value when there are too many just like it which are too easily or cheaply obtainable.” TimeWatchesMultitudesClocks Book:The Mysteries of the Joy Rio Source: The Mysteries of the Joy Rio
“You look at the world through a story. You can't help it.” YoutubeBiblical SeriesGmuzuztj0ga Author:Jordan B. Peterson
“What you should do when you're writing a book is you should have a question and it should be a real question. It should be one you don't know the answer to and then you should be studying and writing like mad and reading everything you can get your hands on to see if you can actually grapple with the problem and come to some solution and you should walk the reader as well through your process of thinking.” YoutubeBiblical SeriesA9jtqn_govi Author:Jordan B. Peterson
“The best treatment for alcoholism is religious conversion.” YoutubeBiblical SeriesDrjkwdfdbco Author:Jordan B. Peterson
“If you take the low road than that wins and it gets a little stronger because everything that wins neurologically gets a little stronger.” YoutubeBiblical SeriesDrjkwdfdbco Author:Jordan B. Peterson
“if there are things that upset you, chaotic, terrible, serpentine monstrous underworld things that threaten you, the best thing to do is to open your eyes, get your speech organized, and go out and confront the thing, and make the world out of it” YoutubeBiblical SeriesF Wwbgo6a2w Author:Jordan B. Peterson
“you're much better off to confront your fears head on than you are to wait and let them find you” YoutubeBiblical SeriesF Wwbgo6a2w Author:Jordan B. Peterson
“what happens if you're in a relationship with someone and you trust them, then you make certain assumptions about the past, and you make certain assumptions about the present, and you make certain assumptions about the future. And everything's stable, so you're standing on solid ground. And the chaos, it's like you're standing on thin ice. The chaos is hidden. The shark beneath the waves isn't there. You're safe, you're in the lifeboat. But then if the person betrays you — like if you're in an intimate relationship and the person has an affair and you find out about it — then you think, one moment you're one in one place, right? You're where everything is secure because you've predicated your perception of the world on the axiom of trust, and the next second — really, the next second — you're in a completely different place. And not only is that place different right now, the place you were years ago is different, and the place you're going to be in the future years hence is different. And so, all of that certainty that strange certainty that you inhabit can collapse into incredible complexity. And you say, well if someone betrays you, you think: "Okay, who were you? Because you weren't who I thought you were. And I thought I knew you. But I didn't know you at all. And I never knew you, and so all the things we did together, those weren't the things that I thought were happening. Something else was happening! And you're someone else. That means I'm someone else because I thought I knew what was going on, and clearly I don't. I'm some sort of blind sucker, or the victim of a psychopath or someone who's so naive that they can barely live. And I don't understand anything about human beings, and I don't understand anything about myself, and I have no idea where I am now. I thought I was at home, but I'm not. I'm in a house and it's full of strangers. I don't know what I'm going to do tomorrow, or next week, or next year.” YoutubeBiblical SeriesHdrlq7dpiws Author:Jordan B. Peterson