yego.me
yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

12 Rules for Life - Jordan Peterson - Official Book Trailer

less than 1m read
·Nov 7, 2024

We focus on the idea of happiness too much, and the problem with that is that it takes our focus away from aims that would be more productive.

It's much better to aim for meaning than for happiness. "12 Rules for Life" is about how to live properly in the face of vulnerability, tragedy, and malevolence.

One of the propositions in "12 Rules for Life" is that life existence is usefully characterized as an interplay between order and chaos or unknown and known.

You're always striving to balance those two. If what you're doing is too familiar, you're bored; and if what you're doing is too unfamiliar, then you're anxious; and what you want to do is find the harmonious line between those two, and that's signified by meaning.

If you can get those things right, you can have your cake and eat it too.

I hope people can take away the idea that there is a mode of being in the face of the vulnerability and tragedy of life that is noble and powerful and capable of sustaining them through the worst possible times without becoming corrupt and bitter.

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson.

Learn more at jordanbpeterson.com.

Does Pressure Melt Ice?
Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2

More Articles

View All
The Biggest Eruptions That Changed Earth Forever
The Earth is a gigantic ball of semi-molten rock with a heart of iron as hot as the surface of the Sun. Titanic amounts of heat left over from its birth and the radioactive decay of trillions of tons of radioactive elements find no escape but up. Currents…
How Special Relativity Makes Magnets Work
Only a few elements can be permanent magnets - iron is one. Copper is not. But if you pass an electric current through any metal, it becomes a magnet - an electromagnet. But how does this work? Well, strangely enough, it’s a consequence of special relativ…
Methods for preparing buffers | Acids and bases | AP Chemistry | Khan Academy
Let’s look at two different methods for preparing buffer solutions. In the first method, we’re going to add an aqueous solution of a strong base, sodium hydroxide, to an aqueous solution of a weak acid, acetic acid. Our goal is to calculate the pH of the…
The Entire History of The Universe in 10 Minutes
The entire universe, every electron, proton, atom, every star and galaxy, was born out of a singularity that brought about our whole existence: the Big Bang. An isolated moment in space and time created something out of nothing. We didn’t know much about …
Success is a 5 Step Process
If you want to succeed, understand the five-step process. What I mean by the five-step process is first, you need to know your goals. That means you need to prioritize and find out what do you really want and what are you going after. On the journey to t…
Area between curves | Applications of definite integrals | AP Calculus AB | Khan Academy
[Instructor] We have already covered the notion of area between a curve and the x-axis using a definite integral. We are now going to then extend this to think about the area between curves. So let’s say we care about the region from x equals a to x equal…