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The Topic of Truth

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

CHAPTER

How to Deal With Complex Decisions

People have a proclivity to act as if what we think is immediately real. You can't just command yourself into doing things but whatever you can, so why can you lie well? People are very peculiar because you'll tell yourself something like I need to go to the gym every morning at seven o'clock three days a week and then you're satisfied and you never do it again. One of the prices you pay for detaching your ability to think from from from your capacity for action is that you can think up a bunch of things and then not act them out right.

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