cursory reading of Beyond Order by Jordan Peterson
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3/ DO NOT HIDE UNWANTED THINGS IN THE FOG shadow stuff > Do not pretend you are happy with something if you are not. Have the damn fight. Unpleasant as that might be in the moment, it is one less straw on the camel’s back.
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4/ NOTICE THAT OPPORTUNITY LURKS WHERE RESPONSIBILITY HAS BEEN ABDICATED responsibility/discipline
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5/ DO NOT DO WHAT YOU HATE > If you are at work, and called upon to do what makes you contemptuous of yourself—weak and ashamed, likely to lash out at those you love, unwilling to perform productively, and sick of your life
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6/ ABANDON IDEOLOGY > Have some humility. Clean up your bedroom. Take care of your family. Follow your conscience. Straighten up your life. Find something productive and interesting to do and commit to it. When you can do all that, find a bigger problem and try to solve that
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god is dead -> nihilism -> totalizing ideologies. false idols are more dangerous than ever. do the small things first within your circle of competence.
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7/ WORK AS HARD AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN ON AT LEAST ONE THING AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS depth over breadth. work until your ego shatters and breaks. then you will be a new person with new eyes.
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8/ TRY TO MAKE ONE ROOM IN YOUR HOME AS BEAUTIFUL AS POSSIBLE > If you learn to make something in your life truly beautiful—even one thing—then you have established a relationship with beauty. That is an invitation to the divine.
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(also refs messy office hypocrisy while telling other ppl to clean their room meme) > I plead exceptional circumstances, and I put many other things in order during the time my office was degenerating, but I still have a moral obligation to get back in there and put it right.
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9/ IF OLD MEMORIES STILL UPSET YOU, WRITE THEM DOWN CAREFULLY AND COMPLETELY using focused thought to cast shadow into light
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10/ PLAN AND WORK DILIGENTLY TO MAINTAIN THE ROMANCE IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP relationships are built by individuals living their truths and seeing each other's.
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11/ DO NOT ALLOW YOURSELF TO BECOME RESENTFUL, DECEITFUL, OR ARROGANT the world works as it is. to complain about it is to resent that which created you and so hold a grudge against life itself.
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12/ BE GRATEFUL IN SPITE OF YOUR SUFFERING > I do not believe you can be appropriately grateful or thankful for what good you have and for what evil has not befallen you until you have some profound and even terrifying sense of the weight of existence.
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overall feels like a recap of his existing ideas so will skip an in-depth reading. has a lot more religious mythology and advice seems more aimed at conservatives. original rules. the only important one is #12.pic.twitter.com/XOmK1SMCnI
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