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12 Rules Portland: Technology, Temperament & Free Speech

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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How to Cut Out a Toxic Friend

When do you cut your losses? That's a good example of that terrible tension between structure and the continuation of the same thing in transformation. I think there's a biological solution to that argument. Recurmit the frog and miss Piggy in an abusive relationship. No more, no more abusive than most. It might take three months or six months but often it will be a small scale away. Then I would say too much burdening someone is counterproductive. This is a broader hint for your life. Let you have a person who's hurting you with their nonsense. And then sometimes they'll come back - some part of them will be happy about this.

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