Some good practical advice for your life….

A question was asked on Quora: What are the most valuable things everyone should know?

The following is Dr. Jordan B. Peterson’s answer….

• Tell the truth.
• Do not do things that you hate.
• Act so that you can tell the truth about how you act.
• Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient.
• If you have to choose, be the one who does things, instead of the one who is seen to do things.
• Pay attention.
• Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you need to know. Listen to them hard enough so that they will share it with you.
• Plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationships.
• Be careful who you share good news with.
• Be careful who you share bad news with.
• Make at least one thing better every single place you go.
• Imagine who you could be, and then aim single-mindedly at that.
• Do not allow yourself to become arrogant or resentful.
• Try to make one room in your house as beautiful as possible.
• Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
• Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens.
• If old memories still make you cry, write them down carefully and completely.
• Maintain your connections with people.
• Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or artistic achievement.
• Treat yourself as if you were someone that you are responsible for helping.
• Ask someone to do you a small favour, so that he or she can ask you to do one in the future.
• Make friends with people who want the best for you.
• Do not try to rescue someone who does not want to be rescued, and be very careful about rescuing someone who does.
• Nothing well done is insignificant.
• Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.
• Dress like the person you want to be.
• Be precise in your speech.
• Stand up straight with your shoulders back.
• Don’t avoid something frightening if it stands in your way — and don’t do unnecessarily dangerous things.
• Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them.
• Do not transform your wife into a maid.
• Do not hide unwanted things in the fog.
• Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated.
• Read something written by someone great.
• Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
• Do not bother children when they are skateboarding.
• Don’t let bullies get away with it.
• Write a letter to the government if you see something that needs fixing — and propose a solution.
• Remember that what you do not yet know is more important than what you already know.
• Be grateful in spite of your suffering.

Peterson will be putting on a book on this subject late this year or early next year.

**Update: Click here for my review of the book.**

Also, according to Peterson’s website… “thriller writer Gregg Hurwitz employed several of his ‘valuable things’ as a plot feature in his #1 international bestseller, Orphan X.”

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