In a relationship where romance remains intact, truth must be king.

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.

﻿Life is too difficult to negotiate alone.﻿

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?"

The immature adult.

Art is exploration. Artists train people to see.

Nobody can escape their own consciousness, because we aren't the source of our own values. Even the most psychopathic of people seem motivated to mask their wrongdoings with a layer of lies. Even the most malevolent, it appears, must find justification for his or her evil.

You can't get away with anything

﻿If you aim at nothing, you become plagued by everything. If you aim at nothing, you have nowhere to go, and nothing of high value in your life (as value requires the ranking of options and sacrifice of the lower to the higher)

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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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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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.

Jordan Bernt Peterson is a Canadian psychologist, author, and media commentator. He began to receive widespread attention in the late 2010s for his views on cultural and political issues, often described as conservative. Peterson has described himself as a classic British liberal and a traditionalist.

JORDAN B. PETERSON

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