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# 12 Rules for Life

Author: Jordan B. Peterson

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