You are morally obligated to do remarkable things, otherwise you leave darkness take over. There is nothing more adventurous than the truth. You may not be the best judge of what you need. Add what you can to the world or you'll become cynical and destructive. Cynics aren't cynical about their own cynicism. Retiring in your inner self and your fantasies is easy, looking for and facing the things you could've done better is harder. Balancing high standards and happiness is though, your ideal shouldn't be too far away at first so it can be obtainable. The firsts steps forward may be small but the trajectory becomes exponential. We take pride in comparing ourselves to the best but your only comparison point should be yourself yesterday. Your model only market their best side, you don't know anything about their real life. If you wish for someone's success, you must wish for all their life including their flaws and history. Higher fluency means better creativity. Becoming famous changes the scale of what you see, its depth, and offers you many opportunities. Giving people an encouraging word can go a long way. Lying corrupts your brain because it blurs/damages your vision and programs yourself falsely. Finding gratitude is difficult in poor situations but we should have faith in any situation, otherwise the situation can only worsen. You suffering can corrupt you and make things worse if you give up on positivity. Things that don't grow die, same goes for the size of a population. Cultural wars and entertainments are stealing your cognitive power. The heaviest thing in life isn't metal, it's untaken decisions. Avoiding decisions is a choice and you pay with time. 5 questions to know if you're with the right person: Would you received "You are like your partner" as a compliment? Are you truly fulfilled or just less lonely? Are you able to be unapologetically yourself or do you feel the need to show up differently to your partner? Are you in love with your partner as a whole or only their good side? Would you want your child to go out with someone like your partner? A couple is not about compromising, it's about playing a game together. The more things you sort out, the more peace you have. Aim to reach the place where your life is just the best dates you've ever had, it's obtainable but requires work. Everything that isn't worth it in you must be burnt and cut away. Genuine love means seeing their hidden soul and acting out of love is encouraging it to come out. Dopamine is not about the pursuit of happiness, it is about the happiness of pursuit. To become optimally engaged, pursue to highest most valuable possible goal that you can move toward. Paradox: be perfect and get better. Existentialism considers that each individual is a unique being master of his actions, his destiny and the value he chooses to adopt. In this comfortable world, a greatest difficulty to had to it is the pursuit of the truth. It isn't an adventure if you know the consequences. Self examination is painful but you can hope fix problems one by one thus giving you hope because you know on what to work and realize its doable. Your online persona shouldn't be a false performance, no one can't have two selves. When you practice false, you become false. If you say things long enough you become them, either positively and negatively. Don't be the actor, be the real thing. Be careful what you practice. You dont' see much of the world, only what you allow in, make sure it's the right part, not lies. Attention gathers information, intellect creates thoughts. Humility is dealing with/attending to your ignorance. Growing is about investigating what you don't know. A luciferin intellect is the intellect seeking to place himself in the highest position possible, to usurp god, thinking they know better than everyone. Be a seeker on the path of things you don't know. How are you stupid and how can you fix that? Ask questions, sometimes they're not that stupid and you'll appear as brave for asking it, hoping that you've been listening beforehand. Earn wisdom through humility.
Jordan Peterson