Beyond Order
12 More Rules For Life
In Search of Certainty
In this continuation from his previous book, 12 Rules For Life, Jordan Peterson dives deeper into the duality of Order and Chaos. I found his previous work fascinating, having read it twice and seeing him on his lecture circuit when he came to Detroit. I’ll admit that Beyond Order has been on my radar for a couple years since its publishing, however with the plethora of video content also produced by the author, it is no small task to keep up.
What I appreciate most about Jordan is how compelling I find his arguments to be. Not only is he capable of eloquently articulating anything, what he chooses to articulate has been deliberated internally at great length. In his own words, “I have been searching for decades for certainty. It has not been solely a matter of thinking, in the creative sense, but of thinking and then attempting to undermine and destroy the resultant thoughts, followed by careful consideration and conservation of those that survive.”
Embracing Responsibility
Much of Peterson’s work has to do with embracing responsibility, postulating that meaning is found in the adoption of responsibility. Further, Peterson suggests we start with taking responsibility for ourselves and our immediate surroundings. His advice to, “Clean up your room” is meant to be both literal and figurative. Encouraging that readers start where they can start and move outward as they gain control over the small things. Although small and often considered trivial, “Life is what repeats, and it is worth getting what repeats right.”
A Panacea of Advice
Although the book does have a theme and many discussions are centralized around Chaos and Order, Peterson touches on a wide array of topics, providing perspective in areas such as relationship, marriage, parenting, responsibility, politics, nature, and self-care to name a few.
A few of my favorite quotes from the book!
You have what you can learn if you can accept your error.Jordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
It is better to presume ignorance and invite learning than to assume sufficient knowledge and risk the consequent blindness.Jordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
Much that is great starts small, ignorant, and useless.Jordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
Follow the rules until you are capable of being a shining exemplar of what they represent, but break them when those very rules now constitute the most dire impediment to the embodiment of their central virtues.Jordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
You are not only something that is. You are something that is becoming.Jordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
Who are you? And, more importantly, who could you be, if you were everything you could conceivably be?Jordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
The careless demolition of tradition is the invitation to the (re)emergence of chaos. When ignorance destroys culture, monsters will emerge.Jordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.Jordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
Life is what repeats, and it is worth getting what repeats right.Jordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
It appears that the meaning that most effectively sustains life is to be found in the adoption of responsibility.Jordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
It is a strange and paradoxical fact that there is a reciprocal relationship between the worth of something and the difficulty of accomplishing it.Jordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
It is not the call to happiness. It is the call to action and adventure that make up a real life.Jordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
There are few choices in life where there is no risk on either side, and it is often necessary to contemplate the risks of staying as thoroughly as the risks of moving.Jordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
Clear goals limit and simplify the world, as well, reducing uncertainty, anxiety, shame, and the self-devouring physiological forces unleashed by stress.Jordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
Those who do not choose a direction are lost. It is far better to become something than to remain anything but become nothingJordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
Your world is known territory, surrounded by the relatively unknown, surrounded by the absolutely unknown – surrounded, even more distantly, by the absolutely unknowable.Jordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
We face a multitude of prospects – of manifold realities, each almost tangible – and by choosing one pathway rather than another, reduce that multitude to the singular actuality of reality.Jordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
Trust between people who are not naive is a form of courage, because betrayal is always a possibility, and because this is consciously understood.Jordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
You seldom gain an advantage without a corresponding disadvantage.Jordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
Dangers we can handle can suddenly turn themselves into dangers we cannot handle.Jordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
Just because a new idea fixes one problem, after all, does not mean that it will fail to generate another, or several others.Jordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
We must continually listen to people who differ from us, and who, because of that difference, have the ability to see and to react appropriately to what we cannot detect.Jordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
The giving of thanks is an alternative to bitterness – perhaps the alternative.Jordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
Gratitude is therefore the process of consciously and courageously attempting thankfulness in the face of the catastrophe of life.Jordan B. Peterson : Beyond Order
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