Jordan B. Peterson
- Safespace
If you need a safe space, see a therapist. University is not a safe space. If university is done right, it's a radically unsafe space. If you want to go somewhere and get yourself taken apart, intellectually, and then hopefully get put back together, then go to university. Everything you believe should be challenged in every possible way.
Jordan B. Peterson
- Bettering oneself
If you want to get better, you have to find out what you're avoiding and what you're afraid of. And maybe what you're disgusted by. You have to expose yourself to that voluntarily, and you have to let that change you. It's not a pleasant process. It's a voluntary confrontation of things that make up life's horrors.
Jordan B. Peterson
- Future
If you actually want something, you can have it. The question then is what do you mean by actually want? And the answer is, you reorient your life in every possible way to make the probability that that will occur as certain as possible. And that's a sacrificial idea, right? It's like you don't get everything, obviously... But maybe you can have what you need, and maybe all you have to do to get it is ask; but asking isn't a whim, or today's wish. You have to be deadly serious about it.
