- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
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- Twelfth Night
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- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
In this passage Peterson expands on the importance of being precise in one’s speech so as not to become overwhelmed by chaos. By “precise in your speech,” Peterson just means communicating—whether with oneself or with others in one’s life—about the true nature of various problems. If such problems are ignored or dismissed, they become part of a vague, unaddressed mass of problems. If they’re vague, they cannot be fixed—they just continue to sit there, potentially growing and becoming harder to confront and resolve. An important point here is that the reality we’re ignoring might not be as terrible as we…