12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

by Jordan B. Peterson

We perceive not them, but their functional utility and, in doing so, we make them sufficiently simple for sufficient understanding. It is for this reason that we must be precise in our aim. Absent that, we drown in the complexity of the world.

What about things we see without intent? Just randomly or from curiosity?

It is then that we see what focused intent, precision of aim and careful attention protects us from.

enough to have them). We prepare for the worst—or

Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.