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     We'll start our analysis with a truism, stark, self-evident and understated:  Sometimes things do not go well.  That seems to have much to do with the terrible nature of the world, with its plagues and famines and tyrannies and betrayals.  But here's the rub:  sometimes, when things are not going well, it's not the world that's the cause.  The cause is instead that which is currently most valued, subjectively and personally.  Why?  Because the world is revealed, to an indeterminate degree, through the template of your values (much more on this in Rule 10).  If the world you are seeing is not the world you want, therefore, it's time to examine your values.  It's time to rid yourself of your current presuppositions.  It's time to let go.  It might even be time to sacrifice what you love best, so that you can become who you might become, instead of staying who you are.

-Jordan B. Peterson,  12 Rules For Life:  An Antidote To Chaos