Top 12 Quotes from 12 RULES FOR LIFE

Top 12 Quotes from 12 RULES FOR LIFE

“12 Rules for Life. An Antidote to Chaos” by Canadian psychologist and professor Jordan B. Peterson is powerful self-help book.

Hi, this is Mihnea. Welcome to UpLife, a place where we Empower Personal Growth. In this video I will share with you the top 12 quotes from Peterson’s book.

1. Stand Up Straight With Your Shoulders Back

“Standing up straight with your shoulders back is something that is not only physical, because you’re not only a body, you’re a spirit so to speak, a psyche as well. Standing up physically also implies and invokes and demands standing up metaphysically. Standing up means voluntarily accepting the burden of being.”

2. Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping

“Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your being.”

3. Make friends with people who want the best for you

“People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand. Faulty tools produce faulty results. Repeated use of the same faulty tools produces the same faulty results.”

4. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today

“What you aim at determines what you see.”

5. Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them

“Clear rules make for secure children and calm rational parents. Clear principles of discipline and punishment balance mercy and justice so that social development and psychological maturity can be optimally promoted.”

6. Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world

“People who experience evil may certainly desire to perpetuate it, to pay it forward. But it is also plausible to learn good by experiencing evil. A bullied boy can mimic his tormentors, but he can also learn from his own abuse that it is wrong to push people around and make their lives miserable.”

7. Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient).

“What’s the difference between the successful and the unsuccessful? The successful sacrifice. Things get better as the successful practice their sacrifices.”

8. Tell the truth—or, at least, don’t lie.

“It is our responsibility to see what is before our eyes courageously, and to learn from it even if it seems horrible, even if the horror of seeing it damages our consciousness and half blinds us. The act of seeing is particularly important when it challenges what we know and rely on, upsetting and destabilizing us.”

9. Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.

“You remember the past, not so it is accurately recorded but so that you are prepared for the future.”

10. Be precise in your speech.

“...even what is terrible in actuality often pales in significance compared to what is terrible in imagination. And often what cannot be confronted because of its horror in imagination can in fact be confronted when reduced to its still-admittedly-terrible-actuality.”

11. Do not bother children when they are skateboarding.

“When someone claims to be acting from the highest principles for the good of others there is no reason to assume that the person’s motives are genuine. People motivated to make things better usually aren’t concerned with changing other people or if they are they take responsibility for making the same changes to themselves (and first.)”

12. Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.

“When you love someone it’s not despite their limitations, it’s because of their limitations.”

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