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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
A self-help book by Jordan B. Peterson, published in 2018, offering twelve practical rules for living that draw on psychology, mythology, religion and personal stories. It became an international bestseller.
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“Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life (2018), Rule 2 (rule title); Random House Canada edition, checked against the book's contents as shown on Google Books (that listing drops punctuation)Watch on YouTube (0:00–0:17) ↗Jordan B. Peterson discusses this rule (fan upload)“Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient).”
— Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life (2018), Rule 7 (rule title); Random House Canada edition, checked against the book's contents as shown on Google Books (that listing drops punctuation)Watch on YouTube (0:23–0:40) ↗Jordan B. Peterson discusses this rule (fan upload)Watch on YouTube: Wasting Time and Opportunities (fan upload) ↗Jordan B. Peterson discusses this idea“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life (2018), Rule 4 (rule title); Random House Canada edition, checked against the book's contents as shown on Google Books (that listing drops punctuation)Watch on YouTube (0:00–0:16) ↗Jordan B. Peterson discusses this rule (fan upload)“Tell the truth—or, at least, don't lie.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life (2018), Rule 8 (rule title); Random House Canada edition, checked against the book's contents as shown on Google Books (that listing drops punctuation; dash corrected to the unspaced em dash of the printed chapter heading)Watch on YouTube (0:00–0:10) ↗Jordan B. Peterson discusses this rule (fan upload)“Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life (2018), Rule 6 (rule title); Random House Canada edition, checked against the book's contents as shown on Google Books (that listing drops punctuation)Watch on YouTube: Jordan Peterson: Rule 6 (fan upload) ↗Jordan B. Peterson discusses this rule (fan upload)“Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life (2018), Rule 9 (rule title); Random House Canada edition, checked against the book's contents as shown on Google Books (that listing drops punctuation)Watch on YouTube (0:10–0:19) ↗Jordan B. Peterson discusses this rule (fan upload)