He is clearly a very intelligent man, and has read an extraordinary amount. But he will be adamant that you're not smart enough to realise the truth of your fundamental character, which is one to believe in god apparently.well, the god he has defined at least.

That is not what god means to anyone, in the common sense of the word. Basically he redefined god to mean anything you'd put faith in, including a better life that you'd work hard to achieve. He will tell you that you're not an atheist.based solely on his own definition of god. He also seems to have quite a strong dislike of men (hear him speak about Adam for this), with the normal societal approval and sympathy for women. He has an extremely strong biblical leaning and attributes overwhelming wisdom and meaning to the stories. They derail and go off on tangents for essentially all of the chapter, only at the last 10 minutes returning to the point in a kind of ad hoc way. Each chapter is 95% unrelated to the rules, and all heavily engorged in religious themes. But this book is extremely self indulgent on his part, and tedious to listen to. I like Jordan Peterson a lot, I think his general message is very powerful and positive. Only thing I can think of that comes close is classical music.

It takes the idea and brings it alive through contrast, variation, and storytelling that drives home the title without having to repeat it once. This book unlike most self-help books, this book doesn't try to explain the title in almost banal detail.

Jordan Peterson brings back the fundamental(archetypal) stories of our experiences back to the social collective consciousness and for that we must thank him. It is so as it brings back an important aspect in the spiritual quest that is absent from most new age spiritual teachers: FORM! Most spiritual thinkers have removed everything that even resembles any real manifestation so much so that it is almost impossible to have use of what they are saying. This book is great, not because it's some groundbreakingly new content and idea that have not been expressed before. And of course, it more complicated than that' 'We love not 'despite' the limitations, but 'because' of them. The story about the suffering of his daughter and the frailty of li'l children moved me particularly. Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you? Like a sonata form recapitulation, it ties together the multi-themed spiritual sonata that was this book! What was one of the most memorable moments of 12 Rules for Life? Hence, yes! I find it much better than the print. I prefer the narrative power of the author speaking his own words. Would you consider the audio edition of 12 Rules for Life to be better than the print version?

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