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Do you want to be what you are or do you want to be what continually changes what you are?
— Jordan Peterson
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Do you want to be what you are or do you want to be what continually changes what you are?" in the context of ""2017 Maps of Meaning 11: The Flood and the Tower"" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Jordan Peterson" (Quotes, Lectures)
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About Jordan Peterson
Jordan Bernt Peterson (born June 12, 1962) is a Canadian clinical psychologist at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (1999), 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (2017), Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life (2021) and We Who Wrestle With God (2024)
About Jordan Peterson
Jordan Bernt Peterson (born June 12, 1962) is a Canadian clinical psychologist at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (1999), 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (2017), Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life (2021) and We Who Wrestle With God (2024)
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