"You’re not as nice as you think. And you’re not as useless as you think"

Psychology Professor Jordan Peterson's self-help book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos provides some out-of-the-box ways of living life, borrowing from the works of Nietzsche, Freud, Jung, and Dostoevsky, which are unconventional sources for this kind of work.

The Aim of Living

Jordan Peterson’s view of the world around him is complex, and he tries to simplify this with books. <ul><li>We are just a speck in this huge, complex world, inviting us to be humble. </li><li>Happiness, he says, is a pointless goal,</li><li>Only compare yourself with your yesterday, not with others.</li></ul>

Life as a Tragedy

Humans are essentially full of darkness, and that is now visible in social media with the flood of hatred, abuse, and outrage.

The Dark Side

Happiness is just a side effect of good things happening. It is temporary, fleeting and unpredictable. Do not make happiness into a constant desire or purpose.

Happiness like Cotton Candy

Jordan Peterson believes that everyone is born with an instinct for ethics and meaning.  Build meaning in your life by being ethical and righteous. Being responsible and taking the right, noble path is the way.

Act Right

It is uncomfortable to be told to get in touch with your inner psychopath, that life is a catastrophe and that the aim of living is not to be happy. This is hardly the staple of most self-help books. And yet, superficially at least, a self-help book containing these messages is what the Canadian psychologist Jordan B Peterson has written.

Jordan Peterson: 'The pursuit of happiness is a pointless goal'

JORDAN PETERSON

The Aim of Living

Life as a Tragedy

The Dark Side

Happiness like Cotton Candy

Act Right

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