Jordan Peterson

““If you solve all of your children’s problems for them, well you might think well they have no problems, it’s like yeah they have a problem, they don’t know how to solve their own problems and that’s a big problem.”

““ you can’t pretend without tilting in the direction of your pretense”

““There’s no difference between thinking about yourself and what you want, and being miserable. …Self-consciousness and negative emotions are so tightly tied together, they are statistically indistinguishable. The more you focus on yourself, the more miserable you are. ”

““There is no difference between attention and love”

““Narcissism, when self-esteem is disconnected from actual accomplishments”

““it’s (or You are) a minor disruption to the perceptual set that I’m using to organize the world”

““you [either] played the game wrong, or it was the wrong game. One of those two. You picked the damn game.”

““Your ok the way you are, that’s what we tell young people. There is nothing worse that you can tell someone who is young than that, especially if their miserable, …and it’s like, they don’t want to hear that; your useless, you know nothing, you haven’t got started, you have 60 years to put yourself together and god only knows what you could become”

“"If you haven't done anything wrong, do not apologize."

““A lot of what people regard as their own personalities, and are proud of about their own personalities, aren’t their own personalities at all they’re useless idiosyncrasies that differentiate them trivially from other people. They have no value in of themselves. They are more like quirks.”

““you have to be alert when you’re suffering, you have to be alert to the beauty in life, the unexpected beauty in life.”

“"If you could choose to be born at the 95th percentile for wealth, or the 95th percentile for IQ, you would be more successful at age 40 as a consequence of the latter choice."

“(Intentionally out of order) “ you hear the egalitarian clarion call everywhere. Everything should be equal. Everything should be equally distributed. We should strive for equity. It’s like wrong. What we want are just hierarchies of competence. Not everyone is a neurosurgeon, you know if your father has a brain tumor, you probably want a hierarchy of competence.”

““If you really really listen to a person they are unbelievably interesting. If you’re bored in a conversation then you’re the boring person”

““ We are wired to where negative interactions hurt us more than positive interactions help us, if they are of the same magnitude. So for example people will work harder to avoid a loss of $5, then they will to attain a gain of $5. And you might say, why is that? And the answer is that you can be absolutely dead, but there is only so happy you can be.”