Estimated Reading Time 2 Minutes
Publisher: Portfolio (March 2, 2021)
Hardcover : 432 pages
ISBN: 978-0593084649
Thoughts: I think I underlined more than half of this book in red ink and I continually scribbled my thoughts and responses in the margins. In my library, those are the marks of a great book, literally.
Peterson is eloquent and precise in how he reasons out some of life’s most difficult questions. His advice is practical and heartfelt. You can feel his personal struggle to learn the lessons he is teaching through the pages. Which makes the effort he makes to share this wisdom with the world truly heroic. This is one of those life-changer books that you simply must-read.
First sentence: For years, I saw a client who lived by himself.
Favorite Quote From the Book: When you are visited by chaos and swallowed up; when nature curses you or someone you love with illness; or when tyranny rends asunder something of value that you have built, it is salutary to know the rest of the story. All of that misfortune is only the bitter half of the tale of existence, without taking note of the heroic element of redemption or the nobility of the human spirit requiring a certain responsibility to shoulder. We ignore that addition to the story at our peril, because life is so difficult that losing sight of the heroic part of existence could cost us everything.
Summary from Amazon.com:
The companion volume to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the perilous path of modern life.
In 12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologist and celebrated professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr. Jordan B. Peterson helped millions of readers impose order on the chaos of their lives. Now, in this bold sequel, Peterson delivers twelve more lifesaving principles for resisting the exhausting toll that our desire to order the world inevitably takes.
In a time when the human will increasingly imposes itself over every sphere of life—from our social structures to our emotional states—Peterson warns that too much security is dangerous. What’s more, he offers strategies for overcoming the cultural, scientific, and psychological forces causing us to tend toward tyranny, and teaches us how to rely instead on our instinct to find meaning and purpose, even—and especially—when we find ourselves powerless.
While chaos, in excess, threatens us with instability and anxiety, unchecked order can petrify us into submission. Beyond Order provides a call to balance these two fundamental principles of reality itself, and guides us along the straight and narrow path that divides them.
