451 Quotes by Jordan B. Peterson

There are no innocuous ideologies. They're forms of pathological over simplification and they're also clubs, I mean the kind of clubs that you hit people with as well as the kind that you belong to... the advantage (to me) of being an ideologue is that I can explain everything, I can feel morally superior, and I know who my enemies are...and you know what you're supposed to do with enemies? They're not your friends, you move against them.

How hard someone [a child] is hit, and why they are hit, cannot merely be ignored whenspeaking of hitting. Timing, part of context, is also of crucial importance.

And what about the idea that hitting a child merely teaches them to hit? First:No. Wrong. Too simple. For starters, “hitting” is a very unsophisticated word todescribe the disciplinary act of an effective parent. If “hitting” accuratelydescribed the entire range of physical force, then there would be no differencebetween rain droplets and atom bombs. Magnitude matters—and so doescontext, if we’re not being wilfully blind and naïve about the issue.

Dicho de otro modo, nuestras creencias pueden modificar nuestras reacciones a todo, incluso a aquellas cosas tan primarias y fundamentales como son la comida y la familia.Con todo, seguimos constreñidos indeterminadamente por el hecho de nuestros límites biológicos.

Por definición, nuestros patrones habituales de acción solo bastan para cosas y situaciones de determinada significación: solo sabemos como actuar en presencia de lo que nos es familiar. La aparición de lo inesperado nos saca de la complacencia inconsciente, axiomática, y nos obliga (dolorosamente) a pensar.

Lo desconocido es el enemigo eterno del Homo Sapiens y su mayor amigo, que desafía constantemente la facilidad individual para la adaptación y la representación, que empuja constantemente a hombres y mujeres mayores profundidades y hacia cimas más altas.

Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.

Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.

When a lobster that has just lost a battle is exposed to serotonin, it will stretch itself out, advance even on former victors, and fight longer and harder.9 The drugs prescribed to depressed human beings, which are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, have much the same chemical and behavioural effect. In one of the more staggering demonstrations of the evolutionary continuity of life on Earth, Prozac even cheers up lobsters.