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Risk Being a Fool: A 12 Rules for Life Lecture

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

CHAPTER

The Path to Wisdom

I think it's something akin to writing the line between chaos and order, which is why I used the yin and yang symbol as well in that chapter. It's not like you can just write down the truth in a list and have the list be permanent. There's something alive about it and vital, and so it has to be delivered in a new fashion. If you're going to be something new then you have to risk being a fool, and then maybe that will move you to the next stage. You know what I mean? The state, whatever truth is, is very difficult to get your hand handles on."

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