12 Rules for Life

Author: Jordan B. Peterson

Work in progress I'm still reading this book and adding notes as I read

Foreword

• People need shared belief systems in order to be able to trust their peers. A shared belief system makes people predictable. People will generally go to extreme measures (i.e. Cold War) in order to protect their belief system.

• Humans need to be part of a group but also keep their individualism. Not being part of a group is chaos. Being no individual is nihilism. We want to move on the intersection of both.

• "If we each live properly, we will collectively flurish"