Monday, August 20, 2018

12 Rules for Life


This book is full of wisdom needed for self-management and humor to sweeten the elixir. It reminds us that we are responsible for ourselves and need to act in our best interest.

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos is a 2018 self-help book by Canadian clinical psychologist and psychology professor Jordan Peterson. The book includes abstract ethical principles about life influenced by and based on biology, literature, religion, myths, clinical experience and scientific research. It is written in a more accessible style than his previous academic book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (1999).
Outline of the book:
1.   Stand up straight with your shoulders back
2.   Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping
3.   Make friends with people who want the best for you
4.   Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today
5.   Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them
6.   Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world
7.   Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)
8.   Tell the truth – or, at least, don't lie
9.   Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't
10. Be precise in your speech
11. Do not bother children when they are skateboarding
12. Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street


Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

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