![]() YouTube is where flourishes: his charisma, authority and dazzling spontaneous intellect make his video lectures addictive. There’s plenty here for his critics to get stuck into. there are useful big ideas here which are all the more useful in being, as he admits, unoriginal. And his prescription against chaos, that you should start by tidying your own room and sorting yourself out before you deal with the universe, has much to commend it. Indeed, when he describes his clients, you note the compassion as well as the rigour. most of this book is given to similarly humane and perfectly sensible observations about human nature. But Jordan Peterson is by profession a clinical psychologist and some of his most useful insights come from encounters with people. Sometimes the attempt falls flat as when he deploys Harry Potter anecdotes, and can I just say that he got Peter Pan all wrong when he asserts that Peter’s problem is that Captain Hook is his role model. Where he is more opaque but very much in American middle brow mode, is illustrating his ideas with assorted myth, legend or archetype: he gives us Mesopotamian epic to make a point about order and chaos, or the story of Osiris and Horus to illustrate a point about the importance of tradition plus youthful vigour. ![]() ![]() The new 12 Rules are very like the old 12 Rules there’s no sign that Jordan P has lost it. ![]()
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