Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life Hardcover - 2021

Portfolio. New. New Dr Jordan B Peterson is the bestselling author of 12 Rules for Life, which has sold more than five million copies worldwide After working for decades as a clinical psychologist and a professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto, Peterson has become one of the world's most influential public intellectuals His YouTube videos and podcasts have gathered a worldwide audience of hundreds of millions, and his global book tour reached more than 250,000 people in major cities across the globe With his students and colleagues, he has published more than one hundred scientific papers, and his 1999 book Maps of Meaning revolutionized the psychology of religion He lives in Toronto, Ontario with his familyIn 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 takesIn 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 powerlessWhile 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