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12 Rules for Life | Quotes On my Journey to "300 books before September 2023" , I just completed the wonderful and dense book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by the amazing Jordan B. Peterson. Here are my favourite quotes from the book. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos | Book by Jordan B. Peterson Best Quotes When you have something to say, silence is a lie. To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself. And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men a...

“If You Can Think and Speak and Write, You Are Absolutely Deadly.”   I shared my book-list last time showing 158 books which I read in 2020 and 2021. Click here to see that update: https://www.readindialeadindia.com/2021/01/books-i-have-read-so-far-finished.html Growth What to do in order to grow? Wait! Do I have to do something about it? Won't I grow automatically? We all live with an assumption that everyone automatically grows. I don't decide if I want to grow from a boy to a man. Our bodies grow automatically. We grow taller and stronger as years pass by.  This false belief is deep rooted in our mind that our mental and emotional growth follows the same pattern. Time goes by and we simply get better. FALSE ❌ Personal growth doesn't happen on it's own. It only happens if you make it a conscious goal. So, I decided that. And after I was done with 158 books, I kept going. I read and read. And read a little more. I re-read old books. I read new ones. I read 3-4 books at...

  “A person who is willing to fail is someone who is willing to step outside the box.”   Failure is often seen as something we should avoid everyone's afraid to make failure failure is a wonderful tool  Mistakes allow us to focus our attention in productive ways by finding out what went wrong General human reaction when they fail at something beat themselves up for wasting their precious time and resources bad mood, frustration They overlook the fact that some of the greatest accomplishments were created only through failures.  Example Bill Gates and Paul Allen failed at their first business venture.  Thomas Edison failed countless times before inventing the light bulb.  How to use this? we must fail productively rather than simply failing .  don't be frozen by the fear of failure.  use failures to find out where exactly the problem lies -> correct it in the next version -> then try again . Embrace failure as a part of the journey to su...

  “The simple and familiar hold the secrets of the complex and unknown. The depth with which you master the basics influences how well you understand everything you learn after that.”   When trying to learn how birds fly, humans believed for centuries that flight was made possible due to the flapping of the wings . In reality, the flapping was not the solution.  The gentle curve at the top of the wings is what gives birds flight . This finding was made possible only because experts were able to look beyond the obvious, distracting details like flapping and capture the true essence of flight. Similarly, we must strip down distractions one by one until we find the essential theme. Noticing the essential core might not solve the entire problem, but it will be the best step you take. Use this strategy to solve complex problems Consider a problem that you feel is too complex to solve. Don't worry about solving it right away.    Either remove the unnecessary comp...

 "If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book."  – J.K. Rowling