Beyond Order

12 More Rules for Life

By: Jordan B. Peterson

Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson

The companion volume to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the perilous path of modern life.

In 12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologist and celebrated professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr. Jordan B. Peterson helped millions of readers impose order on the chaos of their lives. Now, in this bold sequel, Peterson delivers twelve more lifesaving principles for resisting the exhausting toll that our desire to order the world inevitably takes.

In a time when the human will increasingly imposes itself over every sphere of life—from our social structures to our emotional states—Peterson warns that too much security is dangerous. What’s more, he offers strategies for overcoming the cultural, scientific, and psychological forces causing us to tend toward tyranny, and teaches us how to rely instead on our instinct to find meaning and purpose, even—and especially—when we find ourselves powerless.

While chaos, in excess, threatens us with instability and anxiety, unchecked order can petrify us into submission. Beyond Order provides a call to balance these two fundamental principles of reality itself, and guides us along the straight and narrow path that divides them.

Critic reviews

PRAISE FOR JORDAN PETERSON

“We live in a time when so many young (and not so young) people feel lost . . . Mr. Peterson talks about the attitudes that will help find the path. It is not a politically correct or officially approved path, but it is an intensely practical and yet heightened one: This life you’re living has meaning.”
—PEGGY NOONAN, Wall Street Journal

“Jordan Peterson is universally revered—and feared—for his incredible intellect and emotional insight.”
—DAVE RUBIN, host of The Rubin Report and author of Don’t Burn This Book

“The Peterson way is a harsh way, but it is an idealistic way—and for millions of young men, it turns out to be the perfect antidote to the cocktail of coddling and accusation in which they are raised.”
—DAVID BROOKS, New York Times

“The world needs Jordan Peterson.”
—DOUGLAS MURRAY, author of The Madness of Crowds

How security and living an easy life can ruin us.

Great book where Peterson hopes to encourage the reader to draw strength from the chaotic world.

Peterson delivers, yet again

As always, Jordan balances experience, both personal and professional, with clinical precision when doling out his wisdom. I've always been impressed with his ability to be intellectual, yet relatable.

Beyond Order is beyond expectations!

Dr. Peterson has written another awesome literary treasure...ok, a bit dramatic, but I think it has some truth. This book humbled me. It showed me that there is more to be seen and known about the world and how to navigate it and the people around it. It helps bring another piece of the puzzle. I hope it helps bring enlightenment and knowledge and joy and humor as it did for me. Happy reading...or listening...or both as the case was with me.

Duberli Ruvalcaba

Throughout the span of life, you will suffer, you will confront situations that make you uncomfortable, and you will inevitably see the potential of evil the world is capable of presenting to an individual. Dr. Jordan B. Peterson conveys this message in a brilliant manner that will allow you to become/ be more conscious about the cause of your thoughts, decisions, and actions. This book will give a deeper understanding and meaning to both of the most powerful forces- GOOD and EVIL,chose your force wisely... I will recommend this book to all of my loved ones. Thank you Dr. Peterson, it has been a pleasure to listen to your works. -Duberli R.
Austin, Tx

He never ceases to fill my life with hope and wisdom

Jordan Peterson is an intellectual juggernaut. In all his books he compiles the best of philosophical and religious literature, scientific research, and his own experiences as a clinical psychologist into eloquent wisdom. Reading his books have truly changed my life for the better when I didn’t think I needed it.
I would recommend this book to anyone, but especially to those who wanted to read Maps of Meaning but thought it was too daunting. He takes some of the best of that book and makes them more concise and applicable.
If you listened to many of his 12 Rules lectures, much of this material will be review. I think he was lecturing about these topics at the same time he was writing about them. Either way, I think this book is valuable because you get his thoughts in their fully articulated form.