The moral of the story? Beware of intellectuals who make a monotheism out of their theories of motivation. - Jordan Peterson

Stop the discussion for a moment, and institute this rule: ‘Each person can speak up for himself only after he has first restated the ideas and feelings of the previous speaker accurately, and to that speaker’s satisfaction.’” I have found this technique very useful, in my private life and in my practice. I routinely summarize what people have said to me, and ask them if I have understood properly.

You may come to ask yourself, “What should I do today?” in a manner that means “How could I use my time to make things better, instead of worse?

Every explorer is therefore, by necessity, a revolutionary, and every successful revolutionary is a peacemaker.