Adila Bibi's Key Ideas from 12 Rules for Life
by Jordan B. Peterson

Jordan B Peterson initially asks his clinical clients about their sleep. Do they wake up in the morning everyday at approx the same time the typical person wakes up? If the answer is no, fixing that is the first recommendation. Waking up at the same hour every day consistently is a necessity.

If the sufferer of anxiety and depression has an unpredictable daily routine, they must regulate this in order to allow for successful treatment.

The next point to consider is breakfast.

Jordan B Peterson recommends a fat and protein heavy breakfast as soon as possible upon waking up.

No simple carbohydrates and no sugars (as they are digested rapidly and produce a blood-sugar spike and rapid dip).

Attend carefully to your posture. Put your desires forward as if you have a right to them.

Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous.

Encourage the serotonin to flow plentiful through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.

People, including yourself, will start assuming that you are competent and able (or atleast they will not immediately assume the reverse).

Emboldened by the positive responses you recieve, you will become less anxious.

Hiding from others also means suppressing and hiding potentialities of the unrealised self.

If you won't reveal yourself to others, then you cannot reveal yourself to yourself.

You suppress who you are. So much of what you could be will never be forced by necessity to come forward.

When you explore boldly, when you voluntarily confront the unknown, you gather information and build your renewed self out of that information.

Research has discovered that new genes in the central nervous system turn themselves on when an organism is placed (or places itself) in a new situation.

These genes code for new proteins. These proteins are the building blocks for new structures in the brain.

You have to say something, go somewhere and do things to get turned on.

And if not.. you remain incomplete, and life is too hard for anyone incomplete.

When the wakening occurs and the once naive person recognizes in themselves the seeds of evil and monstrosity, and see themselves as dangerous (at least potentially) their fear decreases.

They develop more self respect.

1. Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement.

2. Imagine who you could be and then aim single-mindedly at that.

3. Do not hide unwanted things in the fog.

4. Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated.

5. Do not do what you hate.

6. Abandon ideology.

7. Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens.

8. Try to make one room in your home as beautiful as possible.

9.If old memories still upset you, write them down carefully and completely.

10. Plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationship.

11. Do not allow yourself to become resentful, deceitful, or arrogant.

12. Be grateful in spite of your suffering.