With tens of millions of viewers, renowned clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson has shaped the contemporary understanding of personality and is currently regarded as one of the most well-liked public intellectuals in the world.
His lectures cover everything from the Bible to love relationships to mythology. His candid and energising message on the importance of personal accountability and traditional wisdom has reached a global audience at a time of unparalleled change and divisive politics.
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About the Author
JORDAN B. PETERSON, who grew up in the cold wastelands of Northern Alberta, has built a Kwagu’l ceremonial bighouse on the top floor of his Toronto home after being invited into and named by that Canadian First Nation. He has also flown a hammerhead roll in a carbon-fibre stunt plane and explored a meteorite crater in Arizona with astronauts.
He has advised senior partners of prominent Canadian law firms, lectured widely in North America and Europe, taught mythology to lawyers, physicians, and businesspeople, consulted for the UN Secretary General, and assisted his clinical clients in managing schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Dr Peterson’s book Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief transformed the psychology of religion, and he has produced more than a hundred scientific publications with his students and colleagues at Harvard and the University of Toronto, revolutionising the current understanding of personality. The writer resides in Toronto, Ontario.
Review
One of the most well-known Canadians of this generation is Jordan Peterson. He is without a doubt the biggest global sensation in the intellectual area since Marshall McLuhan. Peterson produces an amazing amount of intellectual firepower by fusing historical knowledge with a genuine optimism and a giving attitude toward his readers and listeners. From the National Post, Robert Fulford.
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Like the greatest intellectual polymaths, Peterson encourages his readers to explore the various subjects and fields he discusses on their own intellectual, spiritual, and ideological journeys. It’s a counterintuitive tactic for a populace addicted to the rapid satisfaction of social media “likes” and ideological conformity, but if Peterson is correct, your only loss is your own suffering. —The Toronto Star
In a different intellectual league, Peterson is able to make the most challenging concepts amusing. This might be the reason for the 35 million views his videos have received on YouTube. He is quickly emerging as academia’s closest thing to a rock star. —The Observer
This rock-star psychologist’s message is to “grow up and man up”. It’s a hardline self-help guidebook that emphasises individuality, self-betterment, self-reliance, and decent behavior. It likely reflects his upbringing in rural Canada in the 1960s. There is always some truth to it, just like in every self-help handbook.
One essay is a homily on doing one thing every day to better oneself, according to Peterson, a former Harvard professor who is currently teaching at the University of Toronto. Another is really good at teaching young children to behave. [Peterson] is a magician who spins concepts around. —Today’s Melanie Reid
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You may enjoy this book without agreeing with [Peterson’s] ideas because it becomes intriguing once you get rid of the self-help label. Peterson excels in a variety of disciplines. In the end, this book is an attempt to guide us back to what Peterson believes to be the truth, the beautiful, and the good—that is, God.
It is a big, combative, in-your-face, get-real book. I guess it is a self-help book in the purest meaning of the word…. It’s a difficult read in any case, but no one ever said that God was simple. —Appleyard, Bryan, Times, One of the most passionate, fearless, and diverse public intellectuals alive today.” —The Guardian
Peterson has a really international and voracious intelligence, but he also understands that things must be grounded in a home if they are ever to be meaningfully understood…. “Someone with not only humanity and humour but also serious depth and substance.
In addition to his humor, the man exudes a searing earnestness that only the most cynical person could doubt. The Onlooker, Peterson has evolved into a sort of secular prophet who thinks creatively in a time of lobotomised conformism. His message is extremely important.” —The Times’ Melanie Philips
Summary
In this book, he offers twelve deep and useful guidelines for leading a meaningful life, such as organising your home before criticising others and evaluating yourself by who you were before rather than who you are today.
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He teaches us that pursuing happiness is a futile endeavour. Rather than seeking meaning for its own sake, we must do it as a safeguard against the pain that is a natural part of being human.
Using lessons from humanity’s oldest myths and stories, cutting-edge psychology and philosophy, and striking examples from the author’s personal life and clinical practice, 12 Rules for Life provides a profoundly fulfilling remedy for the chaos in our lives: timeless truths applied to contemporary issues.