12 rules for life- Jordan Peterson
Rule 1: Stand up straight with your shoulders back.
Your posture sends a message about your position in the social hierarchy to others as well as yourself. By standing up straight, you become more confident.
Rule 2: Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping
A lot of people take better care of their pets, their family members than they take care of themselves.There's no reason to treat yourself worse than you treat others. Be kind and understanding with yourself.
Rule 3: Make friends with people who want the best for you
Good people make friends with other good people. They discard people who are negative or have a bad effect on them. Surrounding yourself with good, successful people puts an invisible pressure on you to do better unlike surrounding yourself with degenerates, who have a negative influence on you.
Rule 4: Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today
Rule 5: Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them
People often don't punish their children in the name of empathy. However, its important for children to be well adjusted social beings, as that would enable other adults they deal with (like teachers etc.) to like them. Disciplining them is not as harmful as the harm that would come to them by ignorance of other adults.
Rule 6: Set your house in order before you criticize the world
Rule 7: Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)
Rule 8: Tell the truth- or at least don't lie
Chapter 9: Assume that the person you are listening to might know something that you don't.
People talk meanderingly because they are thinking to themselves when talking. Before being able to get the concise, succint point, you need to make the meandering speech so that you can formulate your thoughts about some past, present or future issue.
Chapter 10: Be precise in your speech.
We don't encounter our problems head on and keep sweeping them under the rug because by addressing them, they start to seem real and we have to then do something about them in the present. One has to be specific in what they want and how they want it, otherwise they can not move towards their goals.
Chapter 11: Do not bother children when they are skateboarding.
People/Kids do dangerous things to test and build their own competence. Men, in social settings, keep testing each other for dominance. Well adjusted women want competent, strong, intelligent men as partners. Mollycoddled men are not strong because they haven't gotten the chance to take risks and hence stay weak.
Chapter 12: Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
When you are in trouble, don't think about it all the time. Set aside a certain time of the day to think about the issue(not in the evening or night) and don't let your mind fester over it at any other time. Otherwise, you'll be consumed by anxiety and won't be able to function properly.
Your posture sends a message about your position in the social hierarchy to others as well as yourself. By standing up straight, you become more confident.
Rule 2: Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping
A lot of people take better care of their pets, their family members than they take care of themselves.There's no reason to treat yourself worse than you treat others. Be kind and understanding with yourself.
Rule 3: Make friends with people who want the best for you
Good people make friends with other good people. They discard people who are negative or have a bad effect on them. Surrounding yourself with good, successful people puts an invisible pressure on you to do better unlike surrounding yourself with degenerates, who have a negative influence on you.
Rule 4: Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today
Rule 5: Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them
People often don't punish their children in the name of empathy. However, its important for children to be well adjusted social beings, as that would enable other adults they deal with (like teachers etc.) to like them. Disciplining them is not as harmful as the harm that would come to them by ignorance of other adults.
Rule 6: Set your house in order before you criticize the world
Rule 7: Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)
Rule 8: Tell the truth- or at least don't lie
Chapter 9: Assume that the person you are listening to might know something that you don't.
People talk meanderingly because they are thinking to themselves when talking. Before being able to get the concise, succint point, you need to make the meandering speech so that you can formulate your thoughts about some past, present or future issue.
Chapter 10: Be precise in your speech.
We don't encounter our problems head on and keep sweeping them under the rug because by addressing them, they start to seem real and we have to then do something about them in the present. One has to be specific in what they want and how they want it, otherwise they can not move towards their goals.
Chapter 11: Do not bother children when they are skateboarding.
People/Kids do dangerous things to test and build their own competence. Men, in social settings, keep testing each other for dominance. Well adjusted women want competent, strong, intelligent men as partners. Mollycoddled men are not strong because they haven't gotten the chance to take risks and hence stay weak.
Chapter 12: Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
When you are in trouble, don't think about it all the time. Set aside a certain time of the day to think about the issue(not in the evening or night) and don't let your mind fester over it at any other time. Otherwise, you'll be consumed by anxiety and won't be able to function properly.
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