Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
The companion volume to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the perilous path of modern life.
In 12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologist and celebrated professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr. Jordan B. Peterson helped millions of readers impose order on the chaos of their lives. 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.
In a time when the human will increasingly imposes itself over every sphere of life—from our social structures to our emotional states—Peterson warns that too much security is dangerous. 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.
While chaos, in excess, threatens us with instability and anxiety, unchecked order can petrify us into submission. 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 12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologist and celebrated professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr. Jordan B. Peterson helped millions of readers impose order on the chaos of their lives. 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.
In a time when the human will increasingly imposes itself over every sphere of life—from our social structures to our emotional states—Peterson warns that too much security is dangerous. 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.
While chaos, in excess, threatens us with instability and anxiety, unchecked order can petrify us into submission. 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.
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Continues the exploration of operating meaningfully in the world, but less substantive than its predecessor.
In typical Jordan Peterson fashion, there was a lot depth to this book. Ive always liked the way he approaches subjects, although I do not always agree with him. To me there was no real heart or direction to this book. I felt like I was laying on his couch in his office being lectured, which of course some would love, but unfortunately I only felt connected to a couple chapters which made this book a little slow for me.
This book is an addition to his previous 12 rules. It gives those without structure in their life somewhere to start.
If you are looking for an in depth review of what should be valued the most out of life and how it affects both the individual and those around them, then this book is for you. Jordan Peterson's language and storytelling can be hard to fully grasp at times, but the more you read the more you want to learn from his insightful and cognitively stimulating wordsmithing. I recommend this book to anyone.
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