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All really depends on whether you are following a heroic narrative to its finality. Or, you have future authored your life, but, fell short of the intrinsic ideal. I have wrote a very interesting paper discussing said issue and have shown Jordan B Peterson to be flat out wrong about the non-sense he promotes. It is not bad advice if you have given that advice to yourself, rather than someone else telling you "I did this..." and you following the advice that someone else found success with...remember, they found the advice useful...but, it does not mean (by any stretch of the imagination) it will work for you. Just like self-help books, useless pieces of paper that are promoting help, not self-help i.e. if you helped yourself, you would not need to listen to someone else' BS about what worked for them, which will or will not work for you. Find the desire and motivation yourself and stop listen to people feeding you non-sense.

Read this and you will see what I mean...

https://www.academia.edu/36722537/The_defining_element_an_exception_that_proves_the_rule

Peace be with you all as you experience everything!