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12 Rules for Life

An Antidote to Chaos

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12 Rules for Life

By: Jordan B. Peterson
Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson
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The number one Sunday Times and Audible best seller from 'the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now' (New York Times) - read by the man himself.

How should we live properly in a world of chaos and uncertainty?

Jordan Peterson has helped millions of people, young and old, men and women, aim at a life of responsibility and meaning. Now he can help you.

Drawing on his own work as a clinical psychologist and on lessons from humanity's oldest myths and stories, Peterson offers 12 profound and realistic principles to live by. After all, as he reminds us, we each have a vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.

Deep, rewarding and enlightening, 12 Rules for Life is a lifeboat built solidly for stormy seas: ancient wisdom applied to our contemporary problems.

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I need more stars to rate this book. I will read it again and again and recommend it to everyone I care about.

Phenomenal

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This is a book that is worth reading or listening to many times It’s message resonates as clearly as a bell on a clear still night

A book of challenge

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Best audiobook I’ve ever listened too. Content is a little too religious for me but I understand why Dr Peterson uses the bible extensively to reinforce his views. You don’t have to be religious to see wisdom, you just need an open mind. I cannot daily anything in this book, and will now make it a habit to read at least once a year.

Wow

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I am not a person who likes rah rah books. This is not a rah rah book. It offers solid reasoning with excellent narration by the Author. I will be buying a couple of copies for my younger family members. Will likely listen to again in a month or so.

Better than what I was expecting.

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Amazing book, definitely recommend this for anyone and everyone. This book makes you realise so much that you overlook everyday, I appreciate every word and every effort. Thanks again

I love this book, thank you for all your efforts

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You may not agree with evertyhing in this book but there is more than enough here to keep you thinking for days on end. Also some nice personal stories that give you an insight into the author. Well read and amazed Dr Peterson had the time to narate this given his busy schedule! Ross

Time well spent!

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I read this book expecting to be bothered by what others had described as an “alpha male self help guru”. I wasn’t!
Granted, his justification of the “dominance hierarchy” by appeal to the behaviour of lobsters is facile. The behaviour of animals is not justification for human behaviour.
His ability to only recollect bad things about socialism and good things about patriarchy is a thinly veiled if not blatant cherry-picking of history.
But Peterson’s main argument isn’t dependant on this in any way. His appeal to navigate life by the management of chaos, and aiming upwards is based on lessons he himself learned through deep reflection on human experience, myth, scripture, and very hard life experience. I thus found myself challenged to be a better person, perhaps more effectively than by any other author I’ve discovered in a decade! Thank you.
Finally, as a Christian, I think his understanding of the Christian Gospel is wrong. Jesus made the ultimate sacrifice, he argues, and so should we. This is a blend of two classical heresies—Pelagianiam and Socinianism. In the Gospel, by contrast, Jesus does what we cannot do. It is grace, not just example, which enables us to climb out of our mess.
I was deeply moved by this book. I disagree on many side issues, but I love the heart of the book! It was a difficult read, but one I intend to do again.

Surprised by Peterson!

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Absolutely loved this book, Jordan Peterson is a great story teller and always puts so much emotion in when he's explaining something and this book is no exception. Will be listening to this one more than once to absorb as much as I can from it.

loved it

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Just finished my first run through, I feel like i will have many more repeats to fully appreciate the depth of this book.

Amazing.

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I have now started my second reading of '12 Rules for Life …' by Jordan Peterson.

I am very impressed overall with this book. His rules are excellent, pertinent, practical and essentially common sense (or at least they would be if presented a generation or two ago before the world went mad thanks to the serious indoctrination by the fascist left through the MSM, Hollywood and Academia).

Peterson may be beginning to redress this horror - the Youtube post of his interview with Cathy Newman has already been viewed over 7 million times since it was posted only 1 month ago. Ms Newman was totally humiliated, but it was all her own doing. Peterson's calm, measured, respectful and highly articulate response is well worth watching.

I am not convinced all his arguments are valid though. Certainly I agree with most of his conclusions and I hope to better appreciate them through a second 'read' (on Audible). But I am convinced that some of his pre-suppositions are totally flawed. For example, he seriously (sadly! Really! He needs to read more!) believes in Darwinism. And his pop-psychology approach to the Bible is also lacking in depth and this may reflect his upbringing to some extent, but it also reflects a lack of serious scholarship here (despite his generally outstanding, extensive and comprehensive reading in general).

It is most notable in his lack of knowledge of Jewish and Rabbinic scholarship, which at times leads to a somewhat superficial take on the narratives and sayings of the New Testament.

Despite these minor misgivings I strongly recommend this book.

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