Suzanne Moore of The Telegraph rated the book four out of five stars, saying that Peterson is "at his best when telling stories of his clinical practice" and finding the book, like its predecessor, "hokey wisdom combined with good advice". There, we can still be both confident in our experience and confronting the chaos that helps us develop. Peterson's original interest in writing his last book, 12 Rules for Life, grew out of a personal hobby of answering questions posted on Quora; one such question being, "What are the most valuable things everyone should know?

Instead of despairing about these differences in moral codes, Aristotle argued that though specific rules, laws and customs differed from place to place, what does not differ is that in all places human beings, by their nature, have a proclivity to make rules, laws and customs. There’s plenty here for his critics to get stuck into; he really hates the kind of group think which enforces deference to linguistic and ideological correctness. Drawing on ancient wisdom, as well as deeply personal lessons from his own life and clinical practice, he gives us the courage to seek truth and meaning in everything we do. We wouldn’t even be able to see, because to see we must focus, and to focus we must pick one thing above all else on which to focus.Carl Jung, John Layard and Jordan Peterson Assessing Theories of Human Social Evolution and Their Implications for Analytical Psychology. To have meaning in your life is better than to have what you want, because you may neither know what you want, nor what you truly need.

It also outlines a practical way to deal with hardship: to shorten one's temporal scope of responsibility (e.When thinking about the Columbine school shootings, he is moved to wonder whether Eric Harris was not, in fact, an incarnation of Satan.

After working for decades as a clinical psychologist and a professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto, Peterson has become one of the world's most influential public intellectuals. He criticized Peterson's book for failing to recognize how traditionalism and myth can be used in support of demagoguery and anti-democratic ideas, and asserts that Peterson's work is a symptom of the problems it attempts to cure. That does not justify the claim that everything is interpretation, or that categorization is just exclusion.Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos is a 2018 self-help book by the Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson. In a review for the Financial Times, Julian Baggini wrote, "In headline form, most of his rules are simply timeless good sense.