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12 Rules for Life

Disciplines:
psychology
philosophy
self-help
mythology

Summary

Jordan Peterson's 2018 guide — presenting 12 rules for living (from 'Stand up straight' to 'Tell the truth') each elaborated through evolutionary biology, Jungian psychology, religious mythology, and personal narrative — the best-selling self-help book of 2018.

Core Contribution

Creates the Jungian self-help book — 12 Rules for Life translates Peterson's academic framework into a moral guide that uses mythology, evolutionary biology, and personal responsibility to argue for meaning through voluntary acceptance of suffering and responsibility.

Historical Influences

Carl Jung Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Fyodor Dostoevsky Viktor Frankl

Intellectual Lineage

Jordan Peterson Random House CanadaStarted from a Quora answer Peterson wrote

Allied Works

Beyond Order Maps of Meaning Man's Search for Meaning

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

Young men self-improvement

Intellectual Posterity

12 Rules for Life 'Clean your room'Peterson self-help movement

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