Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life

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The sequel to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the periolus 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. Table of Illustrations A Note from the Author in the Time of the Pandemic Overture RULE I | Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement RULE II | Imagine who you could be, and then aim single-mindedly at that RULE III | Do not hide unwanted things in the fog RULE IV | Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated RULE V | Do not do what you hate Rule VI | Abandon ideology RULE VII | Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens RULE VIII | Try to make one room in your home as beautiful as possible RULE IX | If old memories still upset you, write them down carefully and completely RULE X | Plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationship RULE XI | Do not allow yourself to become resentful, deceitful, or arrogant RULE XII | Be grateful in spite of your suffering