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Video/Jordan Peterson's Powerful Life Advice Will Change Your Future/Part 5 - Post Mortem - Learning From Failures & A Theory on The Purpose of Life

Aim at something and progress towards it. Be willing to change your aim because what the hell do you know... but aim at something. Then at least you're oriented and you have to aim at something you believe would be worth [pursuing].

Video/Jordan Peterson Video Notes - Index

The act of purposefully instructing your mind to genuinely pursue a goal (take aim) does a strange thing... it literally changes your perception of the world... it reconfigures itself around that aim*. Positive or negative, it follows your aim... So, z4AQ5zVfo. Consider where you are in life, problems you can observe, how much of your situation is due to the wrong aim, or the lack of an aim? Likely a decent amount if you're being honest with yourself. True, life is hard, situations outside of our control do have a dramatic influence on your direction. But it's worth considering, out of the things you can control, are you aiming at the things you genuinely want?

Video/Jordan Peterson's Powerful Life Advice Will Change Your Future/Part 1 - What could you do to improve yourself?

On being genuine about "the aim": "you have to bring your thoughts and emotions together, and then you have to get them in your body so you're acting consistently."

Video/At a Crossroads Jordan B. Peterson 2022 Commencement Address/index

The Decision Point: "You aim up or down. There is always an agent of temptation at every choice point, enticing you to aim down."