It turns out that I have done the exact opposite of pursuing short-term goals or that which is easy. Peterson argues that expediency leads to short-term based decisions and to an unfulfilling existence. I love this rule because in life there are people who tend to take the easy road: they choose an easy major in college, get an easy job, make low-risk life choices and want a very predictable future. I won’t talk about all of them here, but I’ll mention my favorite rule:#7: Pursue what is meaningful (not what it’s expedient). It’s about so much more than that, it’s a fool-proof guide to understanding why life is worth living and how to integrate life’s inherent adversity into the picture of the best possible life you can have.ĭon’t be fooled by the titles of the rules, as some are to be taken literally but some are a bit more profound and require an explanation. This is not a self-help book or even a book about how to reach happiness. People need something to be responsible for in order to decipher their role in the world. That is one of the key takeaways of the book: life not being easy is not a bad thing. The book is almost too dense to explain in a 300-word blog post, but I’ll try, nobody said life was easy. In “12 Rules For Life”, he presents a biblical, historical and psychological analysis of human emotion from the perspective of a clinical psychologist, father and husband. He’s been labeled part of the alt-right, a white supremacist, a woman hater and anti-gay/trans for saying simple truths that everyone should at least acknowledge are based in rational thought, even if you disagree with him. Jordan Peterson might be one of the most misunderstood contemporary thinkers.
TLDR: Jordan Peterson is not a TLDR-able author.
Three keywords: purpose, lobsters, suffering. In 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos, he offers a compendium of life maxims to help you deal with life and its inherent suffering. Jordan Peterson has become in only a few months my go-to spiritual leader, YouTube entertainer and role model.
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