24 Rules For Life: The Box Set

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Notice something that bothers you, that concerns you, that will not let you be, which you could fix, that you would fix. While Peterson was writing the book, his wife was diagnosed with terminal kidney cancer, though she recovered. This can be perceived most clearly in the case of small children, who are delightful and comical and playful when their sleeping and eating schedules are stable, and horrible and whiny and nasty when they are not.

An aim reduces anxiety, because if you have no aim everything can mean anything or nothing, and neither of those two options makes for a tranquil spirit. Perhaps happiness is always to be found in the journey uphill, and not in the fleeting sense of satisfaction awaiting at the next peak. To treat yourself as if you were someone you are responsible for helping is, instead, to consider what would be truly good for you. In January 2017, he hired a production team to film his psychology lectures at the University of Toronto. They were trying to become competent—and it’s competence that makes people as safe as they can truly be.

We know how dread and pain can be inflicted on us—and that means we know exactly how to inflict it on others. The comparison to neurological structures and behavior of lobsters is used as a natural example to the formation of social hierarchies. It is simultaneously the will to dare set your sights at the unachievable, and to sacrifice everything, including (and most importantly) your life. It is our eternal subjugation to the first two that makes us doubt the validity of existence—that makes us throw up our hands in despair, and fail to care for ourselves properly. They just thought that if different people had the money, the problems plaguing humanity would vanish.

Depressed people, for example, can start feeling useless and burdensome, as well as grief-stricken and pained.

Only the most cynical, hopeless philosophy insists that reality could be improved through falsification. The opposite neurochemical configuration, a high ratio of octopamine to serotonin, produces a defeated-looking, scrunched-up, inhibited, drooping, skulking sort of lobster, very likely to hang around street corners, and to vanish at the first hint of trouble.