Tag: Jordan Peterson
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I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.
Jordan Peterson
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I’ve done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I’ve done it, it’s been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.
Jordan Peterson
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Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.
Jordan Peterson
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One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!
Jordan Peterson
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It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.
Jordan Peterson
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To master a new technology, you have to play with it.
Jordan Peterson
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There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.
Jordan Peterson
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Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.
Jordan Peterson
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Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.
Jordan Peterson
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You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.
Jordan Peterson