Summary: 12 Rules for Life: Jordan B. Peterson

This book is a synopsis and is meant to complement, not replace, Jordan B. Peterson's 12 Rules for Life.
What is essential knowledge for everyone in the current world? Jordan B. Peterson, a renowned psychologist, offers a unique combination of old tradition's hard-won truths and cutting-edge scientific findings in his solution to this most difficult of problems.
Dr. Peterson teaches us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what awful destiny awaits those who criticize too readily, and why you should always pet a cat when you see one on the street in his hilarious, fascinating, and enlightening book.
What can we learn about standing up straight (with our shoulders back) and achieving success from the neurological system of a lowly lobster? Why did the ancient Egyptians consider the ability to pay close attention to be the most important of gods? When individuals grow angry, arrogant, and vindictive, what horrible roads do they take? Dr. Peterson takes a wide trip, covering discipline, freedom, adventure, and responsibility, and reducing the knowledge of the world into 12 simple but profound life principles. 12 Rules for Life shatters current commonplaces in science, theology, and human nature while altering and ennobling its listeners' minds and spirits.

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