Jordan Peterson on Fitness Quotes

"You should keep your sword in its sheath, but you should not let it rust. You should know how to use it."

"You have to bring the darkness into the light. That is the only way to redeem it."

"Chaos is potential. It is the source of everything, the mother of the world."

"The struggle against the weights is the struggle against your own inertia."

"Regular exercise is one of the most effective antidepressants."

"Discipline in the kitchen is just as important as discipline in the gym."

"Unless you know you are a monster, you cannot be a saint. You are just naive."

"Agreeableness is the dimension that most predicts maternal behavior; it is the desire to nurture and protect."

"To value something is to establish a hierarchy. If you value one thing more than another, you have created a structure of inequality. You cannot have value without hierarchy."

"Exercise is the best thing you can do for your brain."

"If you are too nice, you will be devoured. You need a little bit of the monster in you to keep the other monsters at bay."

"Aerobic exercise increases neurogenesis in the hippocampus."

"The dragon is the chaos that confronts you. If you don't confront it, it grows. If you do confront it, you get the gold."

"Foucault is the most important philosopher of the postmodern movement, and his fundamental claim is that all social relationships are relationships of power."

"Men strive for status in competence hierarchies because that is what makes them attractive to women. Women select for competence, and men build hierarchies to demonstrate it."

"A weak body makes for a weak mind."

"Competence is the ability to manipulate the world in a way that produces the desired outcome. Hierarchies sort people based on this ability."

"It is better to do something badly than to not do it at all."

"Truth is the handmaiden of love. It is the only thing that allows us to live in a reality that doesn't collapse."

"Compelled speech is a tool of totalitarian control."

"A functional society is a set of cooperation hierarchies. We organize ourselves so that those who are best at a specific task are given the authority to execute it for the benefit of everyone."

"To speak the truth is to bring the most habitable reality into being."

"Chaos is the domain of ignorance itself. It’s unexplored territory. Chaos is what extends, eternally and without limit, beyond the boundaries of all states, all ideas, and all disciplines."

"If you remove the transcendent from the hierarchy of values, which postmodernism does, the state becomes God."

"It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war."

"The shadow is the part of your personality that you do not want to see, but that you must see in order to be whole."

"Liberals tend to be high in Openness and low in Conscientiousness (specifically Orderliness), whereas conservatives are the opposite."

"You must rescue your father from the belly of the whale. This means you must redeem the ancestral culture that has died and fallen into chaos."

"If you look at the top of a competence hierarchy in a free society, you tend to find people who are hyper-productive, highly intelligent, and very conscientious. It is not accidental."

"The ability to endure physical hardship prepares you for psychological hardship."

"Science itself is viewed by the radical postmodernists as merely one narrative among many, with no special claim to truth."

"The sub-traits of Extraversion are Enthusiasm and Assertiveness. Enthusiasm is 'I'm happy to be here,' and Assertiveness is 'I'm taking charge.'"

"Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. However, the downside is that they can be exploited because they don't like conflict."