{
  "type": "quote",
  "site": {
    "name": "Leafy Quotes",
    "language": "en",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson/12-rules-for-life/it-took-untold",
  "json": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson/12-rules-for-life/it-took-untold.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson/12-rules-for-life/it-took-untold.md",
  "id": "da8d4236-c124-4179-b461-c8cf6d07bdb7",
  "slug": "it-took-untold",
  "text": "It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.",
  "language": "en",
  "author": {
    "name": "Jordan B. Peterson",
    "slug": "jordan-b-peterson",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson"
  },
  "book": {
    "title": "12 Rules for Life",
    "slug": "12-rules-for-life",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson/12-rules-for-life"
  },
  "character": null,
  "chapter": null,
  "chapter_parent": null,
  "page": 242,
  "verified": false,
  "original": null,
  "other_languages": [],
  "topics": [
    {
      "name": "gratitude",
      "slug": "gratitude",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/gratitude"
    }
  ],
  "source": {
    "name": "Wikiquote",
    "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson#12_Rules_for_Life_(2017)",
    "license": {
      "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
    }
  },
  "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:41",
  "more_from_book": [
    {
      "id": "eea2aa18-b18b-46fe-aa70-a8da049deb3a",
      "slug": "people-organize-their",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson/12-rules-for-life/people-organize-their",
      "text": "People organize their brains with conversation. If they don't have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 250,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "conversation",
          "slug": "conversation",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/conversation"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson#12_Rules_for_Life_(2017)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:41"
    },
    {
      "id": "bd8d2989-d7dd-485b-a2d8-aa347b406071",
      "slug": "freud-was-after",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson/12-rules-for-life/freud-was-after",
      "text": "Freud was, after all, a genius. You can tell that because people still hate him.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 243,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson#12_Rules_for_Life_(2017)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:41"
    },
    {
      "id": "6eec3c9c-050c-4a97-81b2-137fab097b9c",
      "slug": "to-stand-up-straight",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson/12-rules-for-life/to-stand-up-straight",
      "text": "To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 27,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "responsibility",
          "slug": "responsibility",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson#12_Rules_for_Life_(2017)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:40"
    }
  ]
}