born 1962
Jordan B. Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He gained widespread recognition for his conservative views on cultural and political issues, particularly regarding free speech and political correctness, as well as for his bestselling self-help book, "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos." Peterson is known for his influence in the fields of psychology and philosophy, as well as his vocal commentary on social and cultural topics.
If you can think, and speak, and write, you are absolutely deadly. Writing is thinking formalized. You gain the ability to think by first learning to write very, very carefully. Then, when you can write effectively, you can do anything you want, and no one will stop you.
Your life becomes meaningful in precise proportion to the depths of the responsibility you are willing to shoulder.
That's another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it's as if things were coming together in my mind. It's like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it's it's like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.
It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure.
When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
People in the modern world don't see god because they don't look low enough.