The #1 Sunday Times and International Bestseller from \'the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now\' (New York Times)What are the most valuable things that everyone should know? Acclaimed 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.
In the highest possible sense of the term, I suppose it is a....
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So what we have here is a baggy, aggressive, in-your-face, get-real book that, ultimately, is an attempt to lead us back to what Peterson sees as the true, the beautiful and the good—i.e. . . .
Peterson is brilliant on many subjects. [Peterson] twirls ideas around like a magician.” —Melanie Reid, The Times“You don’t have to agree with [Peterson’s politics] to like this book for, once you discard the self-help label, it becomes fascinating.
Another, on bringing up little children to behave, is excellent….
Formerly a Harvard professor, now at the University of Toronto, Peterson retains that whiff of cowboy philosophy—one essay is a homily on doing one thing every day to improve yourself.
As with all self-help manuals, there’s always a kernel of truth. [A] hardline self-help manual of self-reliance, good behaviour, self-betterment and individualism that probably reflects his childhood in rural Canada in the 1960s. . . .
He is fast becoming the closest that academia has to a rock star.” —The Observer“Grow up and man up is the message from this rock-star psychologist.
This may be why his YouTube videos have had 35 million views.
Peterson can take the most difficult ideas and make them entertaining. . . .
It’s a counter-intuitive strategy for a population hooked on the instant gratification of ideological conformity and social media ‘likes,’ but if Peterson is right, you have nothing to lose but your own misery.” —Toronto Star“In a different intellectual league.
Instead we must search for meaning, not for its own sake, but as a defence against the suffering that is intrinsic to our existence.
Drawing on vivid examples from the author\'s clinical practice and personal life, cutting edge psychology and philosophy, and lessons from humanity\'s oldest myths and stories, 12 Rules for Life offers a deeply rewarding antidote to the chaos in our lives: eternal truths applied to our modern problems.“Like the best intellectual polymaths, Peterson invites his readers to embark on their own intellectual, spiritual and ideological journeys into the many topics and disciplines he touches on.
Happiness is a pointless goal, he shows us.
In an era of unprecedented change and polarizing politics, his frank and refreshing message about the value of individual responsibility and ancient wisdom has resonated around the world.
In this book, he provides twelve 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.
The #1 Sunday Times and International Bestseller from \'the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now\' (New York Times)What are the most valuable things that everyone should know? Acclaimed 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
