By Jordan Peterson

Introduction

12 rules for life was about the perils of too much chaos, this book is about the perils of too much order—conclusion is to live life with one foot in order and the other in chaos (too much order is not preferable to too much chaos)

Is it not possible if your goals were noble enough, courage adequate, and aim at the truth unerring that the good thereby produced, not justify the horror, but provide us with meaning necessary to stop our encounters with the horrors of the world from corrupting us

Structure:

• Relationship between stable social structures and individual psychological health
• Looks at the nature of the integrated human personality
• Dangers of avoiding information vital to rejuvenation of the psyche
• Meaning that sustains people in difficult times is in the adoption of maturity, not happiness
• Necessity to paying attention to the dictates of conscience
• Danger of distilling problems down to single variables
• Relationship between discipline and adversity
• Importance of aesthetic experience
• Past experiences that remain latent can be stripped of their horror
• Importance of negotiation in a relationship
• Motivators behind 3 dangerous psychological responses
• Gratitude is the primary manifestation to the moral courage required to continue our difficult march uphill

Rule 1: do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement

Is it not possible that we would be able to deal with the horrors of nature, the tyranny of culture, and the malevolence of ourselves and others if we were better and more courageous people? if we strived towards higher values, if we were more truthful. Wouldn't the beneficial elements of experience be more likely to manifest themselves around us?