You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. Thus, you need to place one foot in what you have mastered and understood and the other in what you are currently exploring and mastering. You can’t long tolerate being swamped and overwhelmed beyond your capacity to cope while you are learning what you still need to know. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned. It does so as the forced migration, the concentration camp, and the soul-devouring uniformity of the goose-step. Order, when pushed too far, when imbalanced, can also manifest itself destructively and terribly.Order, by contrast, is explored territory.It is, in short, all those things and situations we neither know nor understand. Chaos is where we are when we don’t know where we are, and what we are doing when we don’t know what we are doing.RULE 2: TREAT YOURSELF LIKE SOMEONE YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HELPING Emboldened by the positive responses you are now receiving, you will begin to be less anxious. People, including yourself, will start to assume that you are competent and able (or at least they will not immediately conclude the reverse).Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them-at least the same right as others. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open.Emotion is partly bodily expression, and can be amplified (or dampened) by that expression.RULE 1: STAND UP STRAIGHT WITH YOUR SHOULDERS BACK We are not happy, technically speaking, unless we see ourselves progressing-and the very idea of progression implies value. We experience much of our positive emotion in relation to goals.In fact, they can’t even perceive, because both action and perception require a goal, and a valid goal is, by necessity, something valued. In the absence of such a system of value, people simply cannot act. A shared cultural system stabilizes human interaction, but is also a system of value-a hierarchy of value, where some things are given priority and importance and others are not. They will fight, instead, to maintain the match between what they believe, what they expect, and what they desire. It isn’t precisely that people will fight for what they believe.Shared beliefs simplify the world, as well, because people who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world."What shall I do when my enemy succeeds? Aim a little higher and be grateful for the lesson."."There is little, in a marriage, that is so little that it is not worth fighting about."."What saves is the willingness to learn from what you don’t know.".
"It is far better to render Beings in your care competent than to protect them."."Virtue signalling is, quite possible, our commonest vice.".In my opinion, the organization just makes it far too difficult to actually absorb it. Overall, there are great sections, and a large amount of information in the book. Despite the complicated sections that could be broken up, some rules could have been summarized in a much shorter form, and indeed, Peterson originally came up with the list in a much shorter form for Quora - at times it feels like this.At the same time, many sections feel meandering, and the connections that Peterson tries to make often don’t make sense to me, to the point that I have to re-read repeatedly, and ultimately just make me frustrated.The book feels disjointed - there should be more than 12 rules, and more sections, and the book would be much clearer.This seems to be a result of a few things: The main problem I have with it is the poor flow. There is good information here, but I found the book unnecessarily bloated and cluttered. Ultimately, the rating I gave it (6/10), is a reflection of the poor organization and flow of this book. I really struggled to come up with a rating for this book.
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