RULE VII: Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens.RULE IV: Note that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated.RULE III: Do not hide unwanted things in the fog.RULE II: Imagine who you could be, and then aim single-mindedly at that.RULE I: Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement.I’m going to share the 12 rules and then I tell you my take on 3 of them. That’s what the 12 rules of this book are about. We have to push ourselves into the unknown. We have to sneak in some changes, some curiosity in our lives. We are better off if we can avoid excessive order. In his next book, Beyond Order, the author focuses on the dangers of too much security and control.
It also brings novelty, transformation, disruption. It’s the wrong way to look at it, as chaos has its merits. But we cannot simply say that order is preferable over chaos, nor the other way around.
Beyond Order provides a call to balance these two fundamental principles of reality itself, and guides us along the straight and narrow path that divides them.In his first book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Jordan B Peterson focused on the consequences of too much chaos in our lives and how to make it better, how to bring our lives more into order. While chaos, in excess, threatens us with instability and anxiety, unchecked order can petrify us into submission. What's more, he offers strategies for overcoming the cultural, scientific, and psychological forces causing us to tend toward tyranny, and teaches us how to rely instead on our instinct to find meaning and purpose, even and especially when we find ourselves powerless. In a time when the human will increasingly impose itself over every sphere of life from our social structures to our emotional states, Peterson warns that too much security is dangerous. Now, in this bold sequel, Peterson delivers twelve more lifesaving principles for resisting the exhausting toll that our desire to order the world inevitably takes. Peterson helped millions of readers impose order on the chaos of their lives. In 12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologist and celebrated professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr.
The companion volume to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the perilous path of modern life.
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