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“The more you open yourself up to the possibility that good things will happen the higher probability is that good things will in fact happen.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“You look at the world through a story. You can't help it.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“If you start with little you start with more possibility.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“To those who have everything more will be given. From those who have nothing everything will be taken.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“If you hold out your hand than you're inviting the best part of that person to step forward and that won't happen unless you take that initial step and that's courage, not naivety. So to trust someone once your eyes are open that's an act of courage and that opens up the world.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“When you are fighting against something than there's something else you are not doing.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“To share means properly to initiate the process of trade. A child who can't share who can't trade can't have any friends because having friends is a from of trade.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“He said he had parents who were desperate anti-social alcoholic addicted friendless and that they didn't want him to leave their home. He was the only relationship they had and he asked what he should do and I told him that he should leave.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“What you should do when you're writing a book is you should have a question and it should be a real question. It should be one you don't know the answer to and then you should be studying and writing like mad and reading everything you can get your hands on to see if you can actually grapple with the problem and come to some solution and you should walk the reader as well through your process of thinking.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“The best treatment for alcoholism is religious conversion.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“If you take the low road than that wins and it gets a little stronger because everything that wins neurologically gets a little stronger.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“The most intense hatreds and also sometimes the most intense love is within families.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“Расстояния, которые вы преодолеете за четыре часа пути пешком, на автомобиле и на самолете, отличаются на порядки . Так же как и эффективность получаса работы свежим и уставшим…”
― Максим Дорофеев, Джедайские техники: Как воспитать свою обезьяну, опустошить инбокс и сберечь мыслетопливо

“После непродолжительной практики вы наверняка заметите, что для того, чтобы «заставить себя пробежать еще чуть‑чуть» и «потерпеть еще чуть‑чуть перед тем, как окунуться в социальную сеть», вам требуется один и тот же навык .”
― Максим Дорофеев, Джедайские техники: Как воспитать свою обезьяну, опустошить инбокс и сберечь мыслетопливо

“чтобы недоделанное дело перестало нас тревожить, нужно всего лишь сформировать план его выполнения (вовсе не обязательно именно сделать дело; как правило, достаточно понять, как начать его делать)”
― Максим Дорофеев, Джедайские техники: Как воспитать свою обезьяну, опустошить инбокс и сберечь мыслетопливо

“подумать — значит дать конкретный ответ на конкретный вопрос”
― Максим Дорофеев, Джедайские техники: Как воспитать свою обезьяну, опустошить инбокс и сберечь мыслетопливо

“мы начинаем лучше играть в шахматы, если после двух‑трех напряженных партий мы ляжем на диван, закроем глаза и позволим нашему мозгу свободно поблуждать по воспоминаниям об этих партиях”
― Максим Дорофеев, Джедайские техники: Как воспитать свою обезьяну, опустошить инбокс и сберечь мыслетопливо

“Задача должна представлять собой первоочередное действие по достижению конечной цели”
― Максим Дорофеев, Джедайские техники: Как воспитать свою обезьяну, опустошить инбокс и сберечь мыслетопливо

“Если перед вами стоит какая‑то цель, наверняка вы уже задумались, где бы найти методику, помогающую найти эти волшебные 20%, которые приблизят вас к ней на 80% . В реальности вполне достаточно _регулярно делать хоть что-то,_ что к ней приближает.”
― Максим Дорофеев, Джедайские техники: Как воспитать свою обезьяну, опустошить инбокс и сберечь мыслетопливо

“Lion prides contain two or three males and up to eight females and their young. Wandering over the savannah are bachelor groups of two or three males, each group looking for a pride from which they can oust the current males. If they succeed, the first thing they do is kill the cubs, the pride's legacy from the previous males.”
― Robin Baker, Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles

“The more men and women drink, the more they both seek intercourse — or, at least, the less they resist it.”
― Robin Baker, Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles

“Since the aim of masturbation is to give the male an edge over others in sperm warfare, he gains most if he masturbates but can dissuade those around him from doing so. That way, he gains competitive benefits that his rivals do not. The world-wide tendency to criticise, even victimise, other people for masturbating while continuing to masturbate oneself is thus as strategic as masturbation itself.”
― Robin Baker, Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles

“My favourite description of sophisticated infidelity on the part of the female concerns a small brown bird, the dunnock. The male and female, the epitome of contented monogamy, were first seen as they hopped side by side across a lawn, pecking up morsels of food. When they reached a bush, the male went round one way, the female the other. As soon as the bush shielded her from her partner, the female flew in an instant into dense vegetation nearby. There, she copulated with a lurking male, then flew back to her position behind the bush. A few seconds later, male and female hopped back into each other's view, past the bush. Still intently pecking at morsels, the female acted as if nothing had happened.
Nearly as appealing is the film, shown worldwide, of a female monkey foraging on the ground for food while being watched attentively from a high branch by her consort. Alongside her comes another male. He sits down, innocently picking at himself, hiding his erection from her consort. Every time the consort's attention is distracted, the other male taps the female on the shoulder. In an instant she stands and presents and the male inseminates her. So quick is their intercourse that by the time her consort looks back in their direction, they have resumed their previous activities — innocence personified.”
― Robin Baker

“Most readers will recognise the seduction of the young window-cleaner as a cliché. It, or something similar, has been used as a not very imaginative 'dramatic device' in a multitude of films, plays and books. If the man involved is not a window-cleaner, he is an electrician, a plumber, a builder, a TV repair man or (in Britain, the biggest cliché of all) a milkman. In short, he is any man who has a legitimate reason for visiting a woman in her home while her partner is absent.
Indeed, so hackneyed is this scenario that there is a danger, if we are not careful, of missing the important point: namely, that the behaviour has become hackneyed precisely because it is so common.”
― Robin Baker, Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles

“Small families are not a new invention. For most of human history, from about one million years ago until as recently as ten to fifteen thousand years ago, all people lived as hunter-gatherers. Men hunted animals and women foraged for fruit and vegetables. Societies were made up of small, scattered bands of people. They had a good, protein-rich diet and most deaths were due to accident, predation and inter-group warfare rather than disease. The children of hunter-gatherers had an excellent chance of survival. Using nothing but the natural, stress-related methods we have discussed, women gave birth to only three or four children in their lifetime. Of these, two or three survived.
Large families did not appear until about ten thousand years or so ago, when agriculture brought a change of lifestyle. In the most fertile areas, large and concentrated communities developed, living on a carbohydrate-rich diet. Disease and infant mortality were rife. The average number of children was about seven or eight, but double figures were commonplace. Even so, whole families could be wiped out in days by virulent disease. As with the hunter-gatherers, on average, only two or three in each survived.”
― Robin Baker, Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles

“A woman's difficulty is that she has a much wider choice of men to provide her with genes than she has of long-term partners. She could probably persuade many men of her choice to give her their genes — it takes only a few minutes of sex, after all. Her options for a long-term partner, though, are much more limited.”
― Robin Baker, Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles

“Conversation became strained as they each waited for a sign that they would not be rebuffed.”
― Robin Baker, Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles

“In choosing a man or men with whom to share her life, a woman has two major issues to consider. On the one hand, she needs a man who can help her raise her children. On the other, she needs genes that in combination with her own will produce attractive, fertile and successful children.”
― Robin Baker, Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles

“Surveys of many cultures around the world consistently show that, in looking for a long-term partner, women prefer men who have, or have the potential of, wealth, status, stability and durability.”
― Robin Baker, Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles