Episode 14 – Jordan Peterson
“Don’t practice things you don’t want to be good at.”
Controversy
In 2016, Peterson released a series of YouTube videos criticizing the Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (Bill C-16), passed by the Parliament of Canada to introduce “gender identity and expression” as prohibited grounds for discrimination.
12 Rules for Life
- “Stand up straight with your shoulders back.”
- “Treat yourself like you are someone you are responsible for helping.”
- “Make friends with people who want the best for you.”
- “Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”
- “Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them.”
- “Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.”
- “Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient).”
- “Tell the truth – or, at least, don’t lie.”
- “Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.”
- “Be precise in your speech.”
- “Do not bother children when they are skate-boarding.”
- “Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.”
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
- “Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement.”
- “Imagine who you could be and then aim single-mindedly at that.”
- “Do not hide unwanted things in the fog.”
- “Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated.”
- “Do not do what you hate.”
- “Abandon ideology.”
- “Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens.”
- “Try to make one room in your home as beautiful as possible.”
- “If old memories still upset you, write them down carefully and completely.”
- “Plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationship.”
- “Do not allow yourself to become resentful, deceitful, or arrogant.”
- “Be grateful in spite of your suffering.”
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