On Monday 7th February 2022 PropelHer’s Book Club discussed 12 Rules For Life by Jordan Peterson

 

In this summary of 12 Rules for Life, I’ll be briefly summarising the book to help you to make a decision about whether you should buy a copy of the book for yourself.

As the title suggests Jordan has 12 rules for life and the book goes through each of the rules. 

 

The 12 rules are:

1 Stand up straight with your shoulders straight. …

2 Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping. …

3 Befriend people who want the best for you. …

4 Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not the useless person you are today.

5 Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them

6 Set your house in order before you criticise the world

7 Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient

8 Tell the truth. Or at least don’t lie

9 Assume the person you are listening to knows something you don’t

10 Be precise in your speech

11 Do not bother children while they are skateboarding

12 Pet a cat when you encounter one in the street

 

Then for each of the rules Jordan will tell some stories about how he came to believe this was an important rule in life to follow. Sometimes it is based on a real experience and in some cases he refers back to his experience as a clinical psychologist. Often you go down a winding path, but Jordan always brings it back beautiful so that the last sentence is the rule being discussed.

This book is not for the fainthearted. The book may only cover 12 rules, but in total the book is 448 pages long. At times it is a very dense book to read and Jordan likes to quote the Bible, Friedrich Nietzsche, Marxism and more.

 

That’s it! You now have an idea about what you can expect to find inside of 2 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan Peterson.

 

Like the sound of 12 Rules For Life? Why not buy a copy of the book and read it yourself?

 

Buy your copy of 12 Rules For Life by Jordan Peterson from The Bookshop (and support local bookshops) or Amazon.

 

12 Rules For Life was read as part of PropelHer’s Book Club. PropelHer’s Book Club is an online non-fiction book club for ambitious women that meet monthly. Every month PropelHer’s Book Club reads a different book to help ambitious women concentrate on their personal development and professional success. You can see what else we have read so far here. If you would like to join PropelHer’s Book Club you can find full details here.

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