âI will do good no matter what. No matter what happens to me. I will do good.â
Jordan Peterson:
âNo matter how much undeserved suffering comes my way⊠undeserved and unjust, in spite of my innocence⊠I will not lose faith and I will do good.â
Absolute rejection of the victim mindset.
âThough He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.â - Job 13:15
Suddenly everything changes. You feel comfortable being who you are exactly as you are. You don't reject yourself anymore because you are different from the majority. Because that's what makes you special. You feel motivated to be the best version of yourself. God is with you.
Jordan Petersonâs method for remembering everything you read:
Stop highlighting. Stop taking notes while reading.
Read a section â close the book â write down what you remember in your own words. Reformulate it. Connect it. Criticize it.
Thatâs how information actually becomes part of you.
Whatâs your take, do you learn and retain more by actively recalling and rewriting, or by highlighting and passive note-taking?
Erica Komisar said something every parent needs to hear:
The greatest gift you can give your kids isnât perfect parenting. Itâs loving your spouse, openly, warmly, with real affection, right in front of them.
Your brain is plastic, especially early on. But even if your child is five, ten, or older, itâs never too late. The sooner you fix the âinjury,â the faster real healing happens, just like a sprained ankle. Small changes in how you show up can shift everything almost immediately.
Strong marriages donât just make kids feel safe. They literally help wire their brains for security and love.
Kids donât need perfect parents. They need parents who love each other.
Whatâs your honest take, how much does seeing real love between parents actually shape a child?
Kobe Bryant once said:
âEveryone wants to be a beast. Everyone wants to be the best. But very few people are willing to do what it actually takes. Because what it takes is boring. It is waking up at 4:00 AM. It is shooting the same shot a thousand times. It is watching the film when you are tired. People fall in love with the result, but they hate the process. You have to fall in love with the boredom. You have to fall in love with the repetition.
If you can find joy in the mundane work that no one else sees, the lights will eventually shine on you.â
I don't pray for an easy life. I pray for the strength to handle a hard one.
God doesn't make us superhuman. He gives us the courage to keep walking when we are weak.
Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it.
It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.
Matthew McConaughey cuts through the âdo what you loveâ hype.
Sometimes the job sucks. Sometimes the relationship needs work. Sometimes you donât feel like tending the fire youâve been building for years.
But that doesnât always mean itâs wrong, it might just mean itâs hard.
He says do the sweaty, bloody work anyway. Put out the small smoke before it becomes a blaze. Sacrifice today so you can sleep better tomorrow, still connected to who you set out to be.
Real life isnât all passion. Sometimes itâs tending the garden even when youâd rather walk away.
Jordan Peterson on why writing is the most powerful skill you can learn:
1. writing and thinking are the same thing. there is no difference between them. when you learn to write clearly you are not learning to express thoughts you already have. you are learning to have the thoughts in the first place.
2. universities never tell students why they are writing. the answer they get is you need the grade. the real answer is you need to learn to think. because thinking is what makes you act effectively in the world and win the battles you choose to fight.
3. if you can think, speak, and write you are absolutely dangerous. people give you money. they give you opportunities. you have influence. peterson says nothing can get in your way. that is what you are at university for.
4. the most articulate person in the room always wins the argument. peterson has watched staggeringly successful people his whole life. the common thread: you do not want to argue with them. not because they are aggressive. because their points are organized and yours probably aren't.
5. someone who cannot write has done almost everything wrong before they start. wrong words, wrong sentences, wrong paragraph order, wrong structure, wrong conclusion. peterson says marking a bad essay is agony because the answer to what did i do wrong is essentially everything.
This sentence by Van Gogh hits hard:
âIf I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.â
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