title: Summary of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos By Jordan B. Peterson
author:  Concise Reading 
description: <b>Editorial Review on 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos byJordan B. Peterson</b><div><b></b><div></div><div><b>#1 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER</b><br /><br />&quot;Like the best intellectual polymaths, Peterson invites his readers to embark on their own intellectual, spiritual and ideological journeys into the many topics and disciplines he touches on. It&apos;s a counter-intuitive strategy for a population hooked on the instant gratification of ideological conformity and social media &apos;likes,&apos; but if Peterson is right, you have nothing to lose but your own misery.&quot; --<i>Toronto Star</i><br />&quot;In a different intellectual league. . . . Peterson can take the most difficult ideas and make them entertaining. This may be why his YouTube videos have had 35 million views.He is fast becoming the closest that academia has to a rock star.&quot;--<i>The Observer</i><br /><br />&quot;Grow up and man up is the message from this rock-star psychologist. . . . [A] hardline self-help manual of self-reliance, good behaviour, self-betterment and individualism that probably reflects his childhood in rural Canada in the 1960s. As with all self-help manuals, there&apos;s always a kernel of truth. Formerly a Harvard professor, now at the University of Toronto, Peterson retains that whiff of cowboy philosophy--one essay is a homily on doing one thing every day to improve yourself. Another, on bringing up little children to behave, is excellent.... [Peterson] twirls ideas around like a magician.&quot; --Melanie Reid,<i>The Times</i><br /><br />&quot;You don&apos;t have to agree with [Peterson&apos;s politics] to like this book for, once you discard the self-help label, it becomes fascinating. Peterson is brilliant on many subjects. . . . So what we have here is a baggy, aggressive, in-your-face, get-real book that, ultimately, is an attempt to lead us back to what Peterson sees as the true, the beautiful and the good--i.e. God. In the highest possible sense of the term, I suppose it is a self-help book. . . . Either way, it&apos;s a rocky read, but nobody ever said God was easy.&quot; --Bryan Appleyard,<i>The Times</i><br /><br />&quot;One of the mosteclectic and stimulatingpublic intellectuals at large today,fearless and impassioned.&quot; --<i>The Guardian</i><br /><br />&quot;Someone with not only humanity and humour, but serious depth and substance. . . .Peterson has a truly cosmopolitan and omnivorous intellect, but one that recognizes that things need grounding in a home if they are ever going to be meaningfully grasped. . . . As well as being funny, there is a burning sincerity to the man which only the most withered cynic could suspect.&quot; --<i>The Spectator</i>&quot;Peterson has become a kind of secular prophet who, in an era of lobotomized conformism, thinks out of the box. . . .His message is overwhelmingly vital.&quot;--Melanie Philips,<i>The Times</i></div> </div>
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  _Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief_
  
  
  _12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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