Jordan Peterson speaking at an event in Dallas, Texas, in June 2018 Ĭanadian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge wrote the book's foreword. It also outlines a practical way to deal with hardship: to shorten one's temporal scope of responsibility (e.g., focusing on the next minute rather than the next three months).
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The chapter is a meditation on how to maintain a watchful eye on, and cherish, life's small redeemable qualities (i.e., to "pet a cat when you encounter one"). In it, he describes his own personal struggle upon discovering that his daughter, Mikhaila, had a rare bone disease. In the last chapter, Peterson outlines the ways in which one can cope with the most tragic events, events that are often out of one's control. The other parts of the work explore and criticize the state of young men the upbringing that ignores sex differences between boys and girls (criticism of over-protection and tabula rasa model in social sciences) male–female interpersonal relationships school shootings religion and moral nihilism relativism and lack of respect for the values that built Western society. To "Stand up straight with your shoulders back" (Rule 1) is to "accept the terrible responsibility of life," to make self-sacrifice, because the individual must rise above victimization and "conduct his or her life in a manner that requires the rejection of immediate gratification, of natural and perverse desires alike." The comparison to neurological structures and behavior of lobsters is used as a natural example to the formation of social hierarchies. Such thinking is reflected both in contemporary stories such as Pinocchio, The Lion King, and Harry Potter, and in ancient stories from the Bible. The book advances the idea that people are born with an instinct for ethics and meaning, and should take responsibility to search for meaning above their own interests (Rule 7, "Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient"). And if happiness is the purpose of life, what happens when you're unhappy? Then you're a failure. It's not something to aim at – because it's not an aim. T's all very well to think the meaning of life is happiness, but what happens when you're unhappy? Happiness is a great side effect.
Scientific experiments like the Invisible Gorilla Test show that perception is adjusted to aims, and it is better to seek meaning rather than happiness. Living in a world of chaos and order, everyone has "darkness" that can "turn them into the monsters they're capable of being" to satisfy their dark impulses in the right situations.
The book's central idea is that "suffering is built into the structure of being" and although it can be unbearable, people have a choice either to withdraw, which is a "suicidal gesture," or to face and transcend it.
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