

Now in this long-awaited sequel, Peterson goes further, showing that part of life's meaning comes from reaching out into the domain beyond what we know, and adapting to an ever-transforming world. His insights have helped millions of readers and resonated powerfully around the world. Peterson offered an antidote to the chaos in our lives: eternal truths applied to modern anxieties. In 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. It’s partly inability.The inspirational sequel to 12 RULES FOR LIFE, which has sold over 5 million copies around the world - now in paperback It is in this manner that those who fail to learn from the past doom themselves to repeat it.

Repeated use of the same faulty tools produces the same faulty results. People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand. Freud called this a “repetition compulsion.” He thought of it as an unconscious drive to repeat the horrors of the past-sometimes, perhaps, to formulate those horrors more precisely, sometimes to attempt more active mastery and sometimes, perhaps, because no alternatives beckon. Or, perhaps, they don’t want the trouble of better. Such people don’t believe that they deserve any better-so they don’t go looking for it. “Sometimes, when people have a low opinion of their own worth-or, perhaps, when they refuse responsibility for their lives-they choose a new acquaintance, of precisely the type who proved troublesome in the past.

That simply cannot be the proper path forward.” That would make the shortcomings of the world, which can make everyone who thinks honestly question the very propriety of the world, worse in every way. If that stark fact meant, however, that we had no responsibility to care, for ourselves as much as others, everyone would be brutally punished all the time. Everyone falls short of the glory of God. You may therefore have to conduct yourself habitually in a manner that allows you some respect for your own Being-and fair enough. You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help and be good to someone you loved and valued. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself.
