12 Rules for Life

“so again it's like the same with with 12 rules”

“All right, now to the book, because happiness is a big topic, and I was thinking as I was flipping through it before, there's something interesting about writing a book about happiness, 'cause it puts a lot of pressure on the author, sort of the way I always felt that Jordan was under a lot of pressure by writing "12”

“Well, you certainly read it, or maybe wrote a review of it, even, in Jordan Peterson's last book, in "12 More Rules", I think the first of the new set of rules, you know, is, in essence you gotta be careful, when you're burning down institutions, because you don't know what will come, on the other side.”

“First off, as you know, a couple of years later, I was on tour with Jordan Peterson and we did 120 shows in 20 countries. And he was not only, I had read "12 Rules for Life" and I had flipped through "Maps of Meaning", it's a very intense book, but being on tour with this guy and every night”

“one of the main things that we heard throughout the tour as the hit pieces would come out in the media is that the only people who show up to these Jordan Peterson events are angry young men”

“So that's why he wrote "12 Rules." He thought these are 12 rules in a modern sense. He wasn't handing down the Ten Commandments again but he was saying in a modern sense these are 12 things you can do.”

“and the other thing and this is probably more important I never saw him break one of the twelve rules he had many opportunities that he could have lied to somebody about he oh I can't talk I gotta go or whatever he never broke one of the twelve rules”

“I'd read 12 rules but I was able to read a few of these”

“I've been on tour with Jordan Peterson and during the Q and A's I see so many people that will say to him you know I just read your book and I'm applying the 12 rules for life and my life is better my relationships better”

“and in Jordan also is its book it's all about that you know clean your your high your room before before cleaning the world so so be responsible of your action”

“The 12 rules for life book that changed so many people's lives.”

“And an example of that would be his smash book, the one that catapulted him into an international celebrity, 12 rules of life.”

“Your book 12 Rules for Life helped me change my life in some good ways in college.”

“he subsequently dropped a book in 2018 that was entitled 12 rules for life an antidote to chaos and just so we're clear that book sold over 10 million copies worldwide”

“I've written these books 12 rules for life and then beyond order 12 more rules because you know you can't have enough rules and I asked it”

“he's a best-selling author sold over 5 million copies of his first book 12 rules for life”

“I have your jordan peterson book too... He's got a new one coming up”

“this was a man who it's almost like he it's almost like he like kind of pared down the Bible in a way and and presented it in a way to people today where it's even if you're not even religious even just bother his twelve steps book that it presented in a way to people where it's it's a”

“When I got there, I was understandably, I think in retrospect, concerned for my social standing, so I was hiding Thomas Sowell books and Jordan Peterson books under my bed, which is really embarrassing in retrospect.”

“I actually say this in our book: when I was a freshman, I was hiding books under my bed, including your book, '12 Rules for Life', and Thomas Sowell's books.”

“we need like some sort of i don't know if it's a man like jordan peterson was great about giving young men purpose and and cleaning your room and taking care of yourself first”

“And there are these people just have no places to look and they have so few places to look these days, Megan, when it comes to what it actually takes to be a man that they're settling for, for you know, 'clean your room,' basically clean your bed; the Jordan Peterson advice because there was such a dirt There was”

“when I was at NBC when 12 rules for life came out and I had so many people bring it to me be like let's get him and I was like okay what's this about as soon as you see some crazy lunatic saying terrible things and then I actually read it and I was like this is brilliant”

“I would specifically recommend the 12 rules for life because the 12 more rules I have some criticisms of it but it's good it's a good book”

“the Jordan Pederson one just got flagged and we talked about this book we talked about the 12 rules for I talked about guidelines for living a hell just reading it it's great book”

“have you read jordan peterson's 12 rules for life”

“have you read jordan peterson's 12 rules for life okay absolutely extraordinary book”

“and then it just appeared in you know 12 rules for life I have to tell you that that is not the rule that my sons took from that book”

“one will be something similar to a more broy version of 12 rules for life modern wisdom style Almanac book”

“like how can you semis a three hundred and four hundred page book like twelve rules of life”

“So Jordan Peterson's book 12 rules for life was originally based on a Korra post someone asked him what are the best piece of advice that you would give someone for life”

“do you know Jordan Peterson who a fan favorite of the show he his first rule tell the truth or at least do not lie he makes the point in his book at about this actually that is actually very self-destructive to be dishonest”

“So there's a an interesting thing I'm doing Jordan Peterson day at the moment there's an experiment was done with rats but rats of who achoo yeah and they hadn't been fed for a while they touched a spring around the tail and they put cheese at the end”

“It's it's a harder read than 12 Rules for Life, for example, though easier than Maps of Meaning.”

“i mean 10 rules for life is pretty close to 12 rules for life and of course the main themes i discuss are order and chaos”

“i mean one book is about order and the other is about chaos and my first book is about both”

“well if i'm playing with it if that's not turning chaos into order i don't know what is”

“in my first book um 12 rules for life i said do not lie”

“One's white, and the other is black. They make a match set. You can read each of them independently. And one concentrates. The first one, An Antidote to Chaos. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos does concentrate on the consequences of excess uncertainty.”

“Chapter nine. If old memories still upset you, write them down carefully and completely.”

“Now, most of what Peterson is trying to get out here is like his normal 12 rules for life [ __ ] just not at all very well organized.”

“With the advent of the internet, elements of the pickup artist community's ideology hardened into something darker. It paved the way for other masculineized self-help formations to emerge, such as Jordan Peterson's 12 rules for life, says O'Neal.”

“Now, a reporter from a Canadian online magazine, The Walrus, dug into this, and he found that Peterson also claimed on the jacket of his book, 12 Rules for Life, that he had been inducted into the Coastal Pacific Quaqua tribe.”

“On January 16th, 2018, Jordan Balthazar Peterson published his second book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. Unlike the sprawling and complex maps of meaning, 12 rules is short, pointed, and targeted directly at insecure men.”

“But he also ties into authoritarianism because in his best-selling book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Dr. Peterson argues that strict hierarchies are natural and healthy, at least to some extent.”

“12 rules for life i think sold like these amazing amount of copies”

“i mean i just think it's i think what you wrote 12 rules to life we need rules”

“Don’t worry about things you can’t control; if people had a little more focus on their own lives and less focus on trying to save the world— This is something Jordan Peterson discusses all the time when he’s talking about 'clean your room.' Focus on the things you can do something about; small successes in your life can alleviate the”

“But you have this guy who comes out and he's just like do it clean your room and then people are like yeah yeah and then he writes 600 pages on it and then does 80 other things and gives talks and TV shows”

“Your first book, 12 Rules for Life, sits prominently on our bookshelf in our living room, and we've all read it, and learned a tremendous amount from you over the years”

“and when I when I read that in uh in Jordan's book that that was one of the the slices of stuff that Jordan says that makes perfect sense to me”

“and i know just from what when i was you know writing about the intellectual dark rabbit webb and reading 12 rules for life i remember sitting at a hotel and a young waiter a man coming up to me saying like that book saved my life”

“I think that a lot of his best stuff is the kind of 12 rules for life here's the thing that you can do this morning that's going to make your life a lot better”

“So, in uh in in 12 Rules for Life, you talked about the value precision of speech. Well, the most important thing for cosmologist is precision cosmology.”

“i kind of describe it as like a jordan peterson 12 rules for life but like the jv version”

“And he talked about um this must have been right after your book um 12 rules came out.”

“And so that's where, you know, when I was writing my piece that you reached out, I was that's, you know, when you're in your book 12 rules is a lot about intention, like living an intentional life and thinking things through and having an approach and having a purpose.”

“the predatory value seeking goal oriented side of the equation which is what you say in 12 rules for life go make something of yourself and become a better person”

“weirdly it reminded me of something that is Maybe one of the bestselling modern self-help books which does the complet because it does the complete opposite right Jordan Peterson's 12 roles right literally consists of a set of formulaic roles yeah and not only that the forward to it valorizes the whole concept of having rigid formulaic roles to follow”

“Metaphorically to one of your 12 rules, you know, make your bed first. Just get that get the basics right.”

“It's a harder read than 12 Rules for Life, for example, though easier than Maps of Meaning.”

“jordan peterson says that in his book twelves rules for life an angry child should be made to sit by themselves until he says they come back to normal”

“and then you know look I put his rules for life in orphan acts”

“what it was um what it was Jordan Peterson's uh book called 12 rules for life like it is about framing the way you view the world and giving people this lens from which to approach the the challenges they face”

“basically i love peterson's work he talks a lot about this stuff i keep thinking about him when we're talking about this”

“this is one of the main lessons of Jordan Peterson where if you're on an existential crisis you're not sure what to do with your life take stock of your insecurities and work on them”

“Like is is the uh it's not kind of it's not 12 Rules for Life, but it's got a lot of kind of there's a lot of life advice in there.”

“I think you're an incredibly interesting guy because I think there's a there's a sense in which what you're trying to do, certainly in 12 rules, but I think you know, maps of meaning as well, I think is such a valuable, you know, you're reaching out.”

“People have been locked away for 18 months and they've had sort of we've come out of this collective hibernation and it's right, what am I going to do next? What's my plan? Like everyone's had that chance to kind of go, right, what's the next step? What's the people are searching for for a little bit of guidance and”

“I just finished your book you did which one uh the your first 12 rules”

“And interestingly if you read his book, "12 Rules For Life," and he's done a number of lectures.”

“and that it is remarkable just in a cultural sense that that your work which has rules in the title 12 of them right two books has garnered the audience”

“you know in Jordan has this book here's the 12 things you got to do”

“You know what, I'll put it up, actually, you know what, I'll put it in front of 'This Book' for a while, you put it in front of Jordan Peterson.”

“because if you read his book 12 rules for life which kicked around our house for a bit like like most kind of sons raised in mostly liberal households my boys obviously went through a you know slightly countercultural phase it's anodyne in its advice”

“he writes a bunch of books about masculinity and he literally refers to them as like disrupting order”

“he takes all of this stuff and he puts it in plain 12 rules for life”

“Listen, I read the 12 rules for life book and I found it helpful when I was like 22 and I'm so Jordan Peterson.”

“and 12 rules for life. You described how you and your family managed with Michaela's health struggles and that was very helpful for me and my wife”

“Okay some of you know I've written these books 12 rules for life and then beyond order 12 more rules Because you know you can't have enough rules and I asked it This is what I asked it to do I said Write me an essay that's a 13th rule for beyond order”

“and yeah I mean the whole first chapter of 12 hours for life is not a million miles away from this”