• The soul is the battleground between the forces of good and evil; it is your moral duty to constrain evil within yourself 
• Communism does not scale and it does not iterate – whereas religious thought is the record of those ideas that have scaled and iterated  
• If you follow the voice of adventure and make the necessary sacrifices to follow the path that takes you out of your comfort zone, then you will experience the following benefits:
  • Your life will be a blessing 
  • Everyone will hold you in high esteem 
  • You will establish something of permanent value 
  • You will do these things in a way that is maximally beneficial to everyone else
• There is no distinction between the truest adventure of life and taking on the maximal responsibility and burden
• Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today 
• Make the presumption that if you move forward in good faith, whatever happens to you will be the best thing that could happen – no matter what it is  
• Men should have a temper, but they should be able to regulate it; most of what passes for morality is nothing but cowardice
• A good man has to be formidable: The capacity that could be the most potent force for evil can also be the most powerful force for good 
• Welcome the adversity of life as a redemptive challenge; the best parts of yourself activate when you voluntarily contend with challenges
• After you go through a period of pain, you will have more gratitude for the ordinariness of life 
• We have an existential moral duty to aim upward and to tell the truth 

Jordan Peterson is a psychologist, author, lecturer, and podcast host.

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