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There is nothing more useful in combating the tragedy of life than to struggle with all your soul on behalf of the good.

— Jordan Peterson

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "There is nothing more useful in combating the tragedy of life than to struggle with all your soul on behalf of the good." in the context of ""2017/04/10: Harvard Talk: Postmodernism & the Mask of Compassion"" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Jordan Peterson

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)