Notes from JB Peterson Books

Arpan
2 min readMay 2, 2021

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12 Lessons for life

  • Stand up straight with your shoulders back
  • Treat yourself like someone you are responsible of helping
  • Make friends who want best for you
  • Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today
  • Set your house in perfect order before you criticise yourself
  • Pursue what is meaningful not what is expedient
  • Tell the truth, at least don’t lie.
  • Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t
  • Pet a cat when you encounter one on a street

Beyond order

  • Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement.
  • Imagine who you could be and aim single mindedly at that
  • Do not hide unwanted things in the fog
  • Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility is abdicated
  • Do not do what you hate
  • Abandon ideology
  • Work as hard as you can on possibly can on one thing and see what happens
  • Try to make one room in your home as beautiful as possible
  • If old memories still upset you, write them down carefully and completely
  • Plan and work diligently to maintain romance in the relationship
  • Do not allow yourself to become resentful, deceitful and arrogant
  • Be grateful in spite of your suffering

Reflections from Book

Subconsciously we assume , we are in social structure and follow it accordingly power wise, our place in world and in our actions. So to be free from this holding we should stand up straight with shoulders back and pushing our self to get in upper part of social structure.

Always try to understand the social clues of right answer and also consider the creative intuition choices. Both are important factors that can help you into right choices and creations.

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