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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.
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In Beyond Order, Jordan Peterson provides philosophical insights on taking responsibility to find meaning, confront suffering, and live an ethical life. He offers principles to counter chaos and develop character.
Becoming Who You Could Be
We have vast untapped potential within us beyond who we currently are.
Consciously deciding who you want to become in your ideal form and then aiming single-mindedly at that gives life meaning and forward momentum.
Trade complacency and routine for a voluntary transformation through rediscovering exploring your latent talents and rebirth.
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Confronting the Shadow
- Don't hide unwanted emotions, flaws, and unsavory motivations in a fog of willful blindness.
- Have courage to look unflinchingly inside at your capacity for malevolence alongside good.
- Integrate your full self through radical truth and self-understanding.
- What you most wish to hide from yourself holds key truths.
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Taking Responsibility
The quintessential source of positive emotion is taking responsibility - defining goals and projects, then making progress.
Turn and confront the difficulties of the future rather than hiding; reduce suffering.
Stand up straight with your shoulders back and enjoy the journey.
Where responsibility is abdicated, there is opportunity.
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12 More Rules For Life (Part 1)
- Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement
- Imagine who you could be, and then aim single-mindedly at that
- Do not hide unwanted things in the fog
- Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility is abdicated
- Do not do what you hate
- Abandon ideology
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12 More Rules For Life (Part 2)
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
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"What you aim at determines what you see."
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"We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human."
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"But proper discipline organizes rather than destroys."
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A certain amount of creativity and rebellion must be tolerated - or welcomed, depending on your point of view - to maintain the process of regeneration. Every rule was once a creative act, breaking other rules.
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We outsource the problem of sanity. People remain mentally healthy not merely because of the integrity of their own minds, but because they are constantly being reminded how to think, act, and speak by those around them.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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Beyond Order is a follow-up to Peterson’s International bestseller, 12 Rules for Life. In Beyond Order, he provides 12 more rules for living happier, more fulfilling, and successful lives. While 12 Rules for Life offers an antidote to chaos, Beyond Order asks the reader to go further. Neither complete order nor complete chaos will bring you fulfillment. So, Peterson’s 12 rules in Beyond Order encourage the readers to reach out into the domain beyond. Doing so is essential for adjusting to an ever-changing world.
1. Let Innovators Inspire You
Although Peterson describes himself politically as a British liberal, he insists liberals need to remember that social institutions exist for a reason. The reason they are maintained over long periods is that they offer many benefits. At the same time, Peterson offers advice to conservatives. Although social institutions are important, conservatives should be open to new ideas and ways of thinking. We should not marginalize those who are seeking to improve and innovate how society works. The world will change, and you have to be ready to adapt.
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So, Peterson suggests the readers look at successful individuals and creative inventions as inspiration. All thriving societies feature a bottom-up hierarchy. This structure enables having an impact on the world but only on the condition that you accept the balance of society. Once you accept this balance, you must seek beneficial solutions. However, only those solutions to important problems are viable that can be repeated without decay across repetitions.
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2. Imagination Is A Key to Success
Your mind has the potential to change your future self. Peterson describes it as a key to self-improvement. The most successful individuals had visions of things nobody had seen or done before. They challenged the social order and offered their chaos. We are all part nature and part culture. From the cultural side, a fantastic story has the potential to inspire us with unrivaled motivation. This is why our imagination is a priceless asset. It allows us to voluntarily confront the unknowns of the world around us.
So, encourage your imagination and use visualization to make these ideas a reality.
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The immature adult.
Just as in the case of Peter Pan in Neverland, the immature adult hesitates to grow up, masquerading their refusal to mature, as well as their apparent lacking fear of death (basically a suicidal attitude) as cool rebelliousness.
"Aim at something. Discipline yourself. Or suffer the consequences: all the suffering of life, with none of the meaning. Is there a better description of hell?"
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Take responsibility
The antidote to the suffering and malevolence of life resides in taking responsibility for it and in trying to improve.
"But why should I shoulder all that burden? It is nothing but sacrifice, hardship and trouble."
But what makes you so sure you don't want something heavy to carry?
"Yes, I might be flawed, but at least I'm taking responsibility. I'm taking care of myself, I am of use to my family and to the other people around me. I might be stumbling, but at least I'm stumbling forward."
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What is it, that concern, that care, that irritation, that distraction? It is not the call to happiness. It is the call to the action and adventure that make up a real life.
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There are few choices in life where there is no risk on either side, and it is often necessary to contemplate the risks of staying as thoroughly as the risks of moving
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it is useful to take your place at the bottom of the hierarchy. It can aid in the development of gratitude and humility.
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