12 Rules for Life
Author: Jordan Peterson
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- You should therefore conduct your life to produce good. This will lead to meaning. Thi (View Highlight)
- therefore conduct your life to produce good. This will lead to meaning. This will make your existence matter. Your actions will matter, taking care of your health will matter, having good relationships will matter. (View Highlight)
- How you see others, and how others treat you, affect how you view yourself. If (View Highlight)
- others kowtow to you, you elevate your own impression of status. If others denigrate you, you lower your internal status. (View Highlight)
- Similarly, you may self-sabotage daily — by not taking care of your health and not keeping promises you make to yourself. (View Highlight)
- Instead, you have to believe that you have a vital mission in this world, and you are obliged to take care of yourself (View Highlight)
- whose life has a why can bear almost any how.” Rule 3: Surround yourself with people (View Highlight)
- Don’t accept charity cases by helping people who don’t accept personal responsibility for their actions. People who don’t want to improve can’t be helped. (View Highlight)
- Stop saying things that make you feel ashamed and cowardly. Start saying things that make you feel strong. Do only those things about which you would speak with honor. (View Highlight)
- Do what is meaningful to you, and you will feel better about existing. (View Highlight)
- Think - how can I make the world a little bit better today? Pay attention. Fix what you can fix. (View Highlight)
- You may lie to others to get what you want; you may lie to yourself to feel better. But deep down you know it’s inconsistent with your beliefs, and you feel unsettled. Lies (View Highlight)
- that things will magically work out. (View Highlight)
- Don’t let it spiral into an inescapable cobweb (View Highlight)
- He concluded that people adopt shared beliefs to avoid the negative emotions spurred by chaos (View Highlight)
- People are willing to fight to protect something that saves them from the existential terror of nihilism. (View Highlight)