12 best insights from BEYOND ORDER
by Jordan Peterson:
by Jordan Peterson:
People remain mentally healthy not merely because of the integrity of their own minds, but because they are constantly being reminded how to think, act, and speak by those around them.
When ignorance destroys culture, monsters will emerge.
Peace is the establishment of a shared hierarchy of divinity, of value.
That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
If you make what you want clear and commit yourself to its pursuit, you may fail. But if you do not make what you want clear, then you will certainly fail. You cannot hit a target that you refuse to see. You cannot hit a target if you do not take aim.
Aim at something. Discipline yourself. Or suffer the consequence. And what is that consequence? All the suffering of life, with none of the meaning. Is there a better description of hell?
The sense of meaning is an indicator that you are on that path. It is an indication that all the complexity that composes you is lined up within you, and aimed at something worth pursuing—something that balances the world, something that produces harmony.
We do the things we do because we think those things important, compared to all the other things that could be important. We regard what we value as worthy of sacrifice and pursuit. That worthiness motivates us to act, despite the fact that action is difficult and dangerous.
Take care of your family. Follow your conscience. Straighten up your life. Find something productive & interesting to do and commit to it. When you can do all that, find a bigger problem & try to solve that if you dare. If that works, too, move on to even more ambitious projects.
We live by beauty. We live by literature. We live by art. We cannot live without some connection to the divine—and beauty is divine—because in its absence life is too short, too dismal, and too tragic.
Artists are the people who stand on the frontier of the transformation of the unknown into knowledge. They make their voluntary foray out into the unknown, and they take a piece of it and transform it into an image.
Art is exploration. Artists train people to see.
Learn from the past. Or repeat its horrors, in imagination, endlessly.
If the past has not been ordered, the chaos it still constitutes haunts us.
There is information—vital information—resting in the memories that affect us negatively.
There is information—vital information—resting in the memories that affect us negatively.
It is not that one must abide by what the other wants (or vice versa). Instead, it is that both should be oriented toward the most positive future possible, and agree that speaking the truth is the best pathway forward.
It is difficult for any of us to see what we are blinded to by the nature of our personalities. It is for this reason that we must continually listen to ppl who diffr from us, and who, because of that diffrnce, hv the abilty to see & to react appropriately to wht we cannot detect
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