But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well. - Jordan Peterson

Michelangelo’s great perfect marble David cries out to its observer: “You could be more than you are.

People think they think, but it’s not true. It’s mostly self-criticism that passes for thinking. True thinking is rare — just like true listening. Thinking is listening to yourself. It’s difficult. To think, you have to be at least two people at the same time. Then you have to let those people disagree. Thinking is an internal dialogue between two or more different views of the world.

Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a relativistic society are those with the least to offer.