“This has been my favorite podcast of all time.” — Joe Rogan after talking with Jordan Peterson

Many of you reading this will know and love Dr. Jordan B Peterson.

For those who don’t, I’m going to show you why you should.

Jordan Peterson is an award-winning lecturer at the University of Toronto, a practicing clinical psychologist, and the author of the revolutionary book on the psychology of religion Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief.

He is most famous, however, for his YouTube channel, which has 270,000+ subscribers. An insane amount considering most of his videos are over an hour long and cover very deep topics such as philosophy, mythology, psychology, and religion.

He is a man worth paying attention to.

On Quora, Jordan Peterson was asked this question:

“What are the most valuable things everyone should know?”

Instead of answering in a long essay, he wrote 40 maxims that I’ve presented below.

Before you read, keep in mind that these maxims are not your ordinary list of self-help tips.

They are simple. They are short. But they contain within each of them decades of study and thought.

Jordan Peterson said in his video entitled 45 minutes on a single paragraph of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good & Evil:

Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil isn’t a book at all. It’s a series of bombs. And each sentence is a bomb. And each sentence blows things up that people don’t even know exist.

That description is a great way to think about the sentences that follow.

Note: Jordan Peterson has a self-development program which is backed by science. It’s called Self Authoring and you can learn all about it here.

Jordan Peterson on the most valuable things everyone should know:

Note: Jordan Peterson is bringing out a book based on these life rules called 12 Rules for Life: An antidote to chaos. You can pre-order it here.

I try to read that list often to remind me of my priorities.

Which of these life rules do you like the most and which ones are you going to implement today?

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