He is clearly a very intelligent man, and has read an extraordinary amount. But he will be adamant that you're not smart enough to realise the truth of your fundamental character, which is one to believe in god apparently.well, the god he has defined at least. That is not what god means to anyone, in the common sense of the word. Basically he redefined god to mean anything you'd put faith in, including a better life that you'd work hard to achieve. He will tell you that you're not an atheist.based solely on his own definition of god. He also seems to have quite a strong dislike of men (hear him speak about Adam for this), with the normal societal approval and sympathy for women. He has an extremely strong biblical leaning and attributes overwhelming wisdom and meaning to the stories. They derail and go off on tangents for essentially all of the chapter, only at the last 10 minutes returning to the point in a kind of ad hoc way. Each chapter is 95% unrelated to the rules, and all heavily engorged in religious themes. But this book is extremely self indulgent on his part, and tedious to listen to. I like Jordan Peterson a lot, I think his general message is very powerful and positive. Gripping, thought-provoking and deeply rewarding, 12 Rules for Life offers an antidote to the chaos in our lives: eternal truths applied to our modern problems. Instead we must search for meaning, not for its own sake, but as a defence against the suffering that is intrinsic to our existence.ĭrawing on vivid examples from his clinical practice and personal life, cutting edge psychology and philosophy and lessons from humanity's oldest myths and stories, Peterson takes the listener on an intellectual journey like no other. Happiness is a pointless goal, he shows us.
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In this audiobook, he provides 12 profound and practical principles for how to live a meaningful life, from setting your house in order before criticising others to comparing yourself to who you were yesterday, not someone else today. In an era of unprecedented change and polarising politics, his frank and refreshing message about the value of individual responsibility and ancient wisdom has resonated around the world. Peterson, asks what are the most valuable things that everyone should know?Īcclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has influenced the modern understanding of personality, and now he has become one of the world's most popular public thinkers, with his lectures on topics from the Bible to romantic relationships to mythology drawing tens of millions of viewers. It is my hope that the transmission of this knowledge will help those who receive it withstand the forces of ideological possession, and that this will in consequence aid in some small way the establishment of a long and conscious peace.The audiobook edition of 12 Rules for Life, written and read by Jordan B. I learned what I wanted to know – at least enough so that my nightmares disappeared. I know now why rejection of such responsibility ensures that the unknown will manifest a demonic face, and why those who shrink from their potential seek revenge wherever they can find it. I now realize how it can be that our religious mythologies are true, and why that truth places a virtually intolerable burden of responsibility on the individual. I have come to understand what it is that our stories protect us from, and why we will do anything to maintain their stability. I have learned what it is that makes the tyrant, and how attractive it can be to participate in that process. This all may appear as something far removed from the original problem, but that is true only in appearance. I understood, finally, that the world that stories describe is not the objective world, but the world of value – and that it is in this world that we live, first and foremost. I came to realize that stories had a religious substructure (or, to put it another way, that well-constructed stories had a nature so compelling that they gathered religious behaviors and attitudes around them, as a matter of course). I came to realize that ideologies had a narrative structure – that they were stories, in a word – and that the emotional stability of individuals depended upon the integrity of their stories. I came over the course of a decade and a half to understand the meanings of many things that had been entirely hidden from me – things that I had cast away, stupidly, as of little worth. I had no idea where my search would lead me.
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