Power is competence.... -Jordan Peterson

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Power is competence.

Jordan Peterson , Psychologist
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People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There's just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story....
The book, '12 Rules For Life,' is a very serious book. There's elements of humor in it, but I'm trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible...
You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it's not much different than the war of gods ...
It's a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they're almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-...
There were some great clinicians in the 20th century - great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius - there's a half-doz...
One of the things I've told men over and over and over and over is if you're being rejected by all the women that you approach, it's not the women!...
Men and women aren't the same. And they won't be the same. That doesn't mean that they can't be treated fairly....
There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeabl...
Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. ...
The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing....

Power Quotes to Explore

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is ba...
Heart power is stronger than horsepower....
When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we'd get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a ...
Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the li...
With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fas...
Some essential oils, a nice massage followed by a power nap helps me start my Sunday on the right note. After a week full of running around, this beco...
The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the powe...
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place....
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corpora...
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating....