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The Psychology of the Flood

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Higher Order Principle Is That You Can Have Your Cake and Eat It Too

If you violate the process by which you improve yourself and everyone else too everything else then there's no hope for you. If you're trying to solve a problem solve it at this level highest resolution level possible before you dare move up dare move up the hierarchy. As you move up the obstruction hierarchy the probability that you'll make a catastrophic error while attempting to fix the problem radically increases because abstraction is very very powerful. The world transforms itself into things that get in the way of your goal so don't sacrifice what makes you who you are if you want to be successful.

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