Once again, JBP nicely focusses on aspect of life and existence we might ignore or take for granted. Similar to my thoughts and feelings from his previous work, I found the material valuable with respect to self-assessment, and exploring concepts of living vs. simply 'existing'.

If you are a fan of being true to yourself and gladly identifying areas of improvement, this book might be a good fit. ( )

In 12 Rules for Life, Jordan Peterson presented 12 rules to help you create a sense of order in a chaotic world. In this book, he presents an additional 12 rules to help you embrace chaos and avoid rigidity in times of upheaval.

The ideas and approaches are actually rather similar to 12 Rules for Life...
And like before, I struggled through this book. Much as I respect Peterson's stoicism in addressing his life challenges, I really, really, really, dislike his writing. Extremely convoluted and leaves my brain all tangled in knots.

The book is thought-provoking. But it would have been so much more valuable if I can focus on the ideas without having to figure out what he’s trying to say in the first place.

What it covers:
• The roles of Order and Chaos in our lives; and
• 12 rules that can help you to embrace chaos and find meaning/peace in times of uncertainty: Balance social convention and creative change, Keep moving toward your ideal self, Address the small issues, Look for opportunities where responsibility has been abdicated, Don’t betray your values and conscience, Cast ideologies aside, Commit to something fully, Create something beautiful, Clear up unresolved issues from the past, Sustain romance with planning and effort, Don’t succumb to resentment, deceit or arrogance, and Stay grateful in spite of your suffering.

Book summary at: https://readingraphics.com/book-summary-beyond-order-12-more-rules-for-life/ ( )

Some fairly useful advice on leading your life here, although we would be well advised to treat some of the suggestions with caution lest we all walk out of our marriages or jobs in order to fulfill ourselves. On the plus side, the author is fairly old-fashioned enough to talk about the role of hard work and a sense of responsibility. Some of his discussion tends to go off into abstractions, and may lose the reader in patches. The narrative is somewhat marred by his frequent allusions to his intimate knowledge of God's inner workings, and his dependence on the somewhat morbid stories from the Old Testament, which is rather full of God's unforgiving demands on humans. to However his personal sufferings (mostly health problems) have definitely earned him the right to be heard seriously. ( )

Depois de defender a necessidade de ordem em 12 Regras para a Vida - o bestseller internacional que vendeu mais de cinco milhões de exemplares em todo o mundo -, Jordan Peterson desafia-nos agora a abraçar a força mobilizadora do caos. Em 12 Regras para a Vida, o psicólogo clínico (e professor universitário) oferecia um antídoto para o caos em que vivemos: combater a instabilidade e a ansiedade contemporâneas recorrendo a verdades universais.
Agora, em Para Além da Ordem, o autor mostra-nos como o Homem, na procura de um sentido, é obrigado a aventurar-se em terrenos desconhecidos - ou seja, tem de se socorrer da curiosidade e da vitalidade criativa que apenas habitam no caos. Peterson exorta-nos a abraçar os dois princípios fundamentais da realidade: pois a ordem, cujo excesso condena à submissão, é a força que ordena a nossa existência; e o caos, que sem controlo promove a disrupção, pode ser o motor para a mudança.
Nos tempos conturbados que vivemos, temos de nos reajustar constantemente a uma realidade em evolução. Daí estas 12 novas regras, inspiradas na mitologia, na filosofia, na psicologia - e com exemplos pungentes retirados da prática clínica de Peterson ou da sua própria vida. Pelo meio, tanto relemos histórias da Bíblia como revisitamos os deuses da Mesopotâmia, analisamos a saga de Harry Potter ou a série Os Vingadores, recordamos a poesia de Blake ou o pensamento de Nietzsche.
E saímos deste livro como saímos do anterior: munidos de conhecimentos que nos permitem procurar um sentido para a existência.

Say you're in Texas. And you watch the start of a thunderstorm after a few weeks without rain from your front porch, door, or window. You might be delighted by the wind change, the lightning, the thunder, then the building crescendo of big raindrops. After a few minutes you see the ground soaking up the rain. You say, "Man, we really needed this." It fills you with a little awe and wonder.

That was like Peterson's book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos.

But, after an hour of rain, you're no longer watching. No more awe and wonder. You kind of worry about it flooding. You're glad the crops, the lawns, the lakes, et cetera, are getting the water, but you're not pumped like you were when the rain started.

That's kind of like Peterson's Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life.

It's nice to have, but you're not as wowed as you were the first time. But it does seem to be a bit of an afterthought, an addition, and an unnecessary one. I mean, the former was "12 RULES FOR LIFE!"; this one is "Oh yeah, here are 12 more if you need 'em."

Not to say that Peterson's sparkling wit, psychological cases, and literary/mythological/cultural references aren't interesting, welcome, or right. They are. And some of this work quite shines, and should be trumpeted. Particularly important and interesting is Rule VI, "Abandon Ideology," especially its trenchant takedown of Marxism, Critical Theory, and Postmodernism. "This king of theorizing is particularly attractive to people who are smart but lazy" (p. 171). A biting and true statement of most of academe if there ever was one. ( )