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Jordan Peterson

(1962–) · Canadian Psychologist

Jordan Peterson (born June 12, 1962) is a Canadian-American psychologist and author. He is a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Toronto and has written several books on psychology, philosophy, and culture.

Everything isn't political.
The book, '12 Rules For Life,' is a very serious book. There's elements of humor in it, but I'm trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it's necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there's hell to pay if you don't do that.
I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.'
That's another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it's as if things were coming together in my mind. It's like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it's it's like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.
All things considered, there's nobody better for children than parents.
It's not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It's inappropriate.
It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure.
In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.
Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?
You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it's not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there's been human beings.