12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

Peterson is like an Old Testament fire & brimstone preacher, masquerading as a modern psychologist. So only a few thousand years out of date with his worldview. Having said that he occasionally does have a useful thought. I liked the chapter heading of “treat yourself as someone you are responsible for helping”. Great idea. But he gets lost in the poetry of his preaching and like most of the bible ends up with some great rules to live by but fuck all insight on how to put them into action. This book is a recontemporised set of commandments with accompanying sermon but notwithstanding he is so old skool he forgets that the devil is in the details.