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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos By

Jordan B. Peterson

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Summary of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

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Human being does not like rules in general despite knowing that they benefit us. We do not want a lot of rules. However, without rules, we are likely to lose a sense of direction and go wayward. Therefore, we need rules.

The example of lobsters indicate that they reside on the floor of the ocean since they need something secure to serve as a hub where they can hunt. However, since a huge number of lobsters exist, a complication arises if two or more lobsters occupy the same territory. If hundreds of lobsters attempt to hunt for food and keep a family in the same place, it will lead to chaos. Such territorial disputes also apply to the example of songbirds.

The example of chickens also indicates that identities play a critical role in the survival of birds as well. Those who preferred availability of food in the morning are the most important chickens owing to their visible superiority. The second most important are those that come a close second. The hierarchy goes down and the last are the chickens that are in a bad condition, they have a small amount of feathers left, etc. A dominance hierarchy is evident. Songbirds do not live collectively like chickens but the healthiest and most powerful of them have control over the main territory and shield it.

Over the course of millennia, animals that face a requirement to exercise cohabitation with others within the perimeters of a territory have learned several tricks to settle dominance with the least quantity of loss, handling conflict in their own ways. The neurochemistry of a lobster that wins is different from that of a lobster that loses and the levels of serotonin and octopamine makes a difference in this context. The principle of unequal distribution accentuates when a lobster that lost earlier recollects its courage and battles again, the probability of it losing again is high. A winning lobster will most probably win again. The same principles apply to the human financial world, where the few richest people on the planet have the same wealth as the billions of people that are at the bottom. The same pattern is evident in other fields such as science, music, etc., where a small number of people dominate a field in the form of its mastery. This principle is also known as Price's law.

Furthermore, female lobsters recognize the most significant male rapidly and are irrevocably attracted to him. Females of other species including humans also do this. They leave it to the dominance hierarchy to figure out who the best man is and let the males battle it out. This applies to the stock market as well. When the females are prepared to mate, they try to attract the dominant lobster with different tactics. The successful one gets the male. Since lobsters have been around for several million years, it shows that dominance hierarchies have existed since time immemorial and all complex forms of life had to adjust to it. This highlights that even though brains and nervous systems were quite simple earlier, they still had the neurochemistry and structure required to take details pertaining to status and society into account.

Confidence plays an extremely significant role in helping the fittest survive. Those with the right mindset and internal features succeed. Those who feel that they are not up to the mark are likely to fail. The occurrences in an individuals life get registered in their brain as good or bad. If an individual expects people to be nice since they are nice themselves, they are wrong and likely to face a fall since it does not work that way. People need to reinforce themselves and stand up so that they will not get caught up in a circle of failures.

Humans are usually more concerned about the health of their loved ones than themselves. They would readily assist a loved one but will not give themselves the same treatment. It poses an issue. Further, it is just recent that human being started giving more importance to scientific information than history. Prior to that, historical texts made humans feel for centuries. Humans and the things around them tend to be subjective. Human consciousness, a sense of chaos and order govern the universe at the same time. Order is linked with things happening in an identical manner, and chaos is anything that disrupts order and harmony. Nevertheless, chaos spawns a different kind of order even though it does not appear to do that on the surface.

Order shares its qualities with the male owing to the certainty of the configuration while chaos shares its qualities with the female owing to the fact that it can spawn new universes, which can be good or bad. Finding a sense of 100% stability between order and chaos leads to success and a disproportion between two can lead to issues.

An example of Eve and the fact that she led to Adam to a fall and her own exit from paradise indicates that women make men accomplish what they are meant to and give rise to lessons. The existence of a snake is worth noting in this context. Also, Adam was aware of his identity and today's human beings are too. Humans are further aware of the definition of good and evil since God gave them an ability to differentiate between the two. This form of consciousness enables humans to be aware of what is good for themselves and others. This spawns the dilemma as to why they ignore their own selves. Humans believe that others deserve their love and praise since it is ingrained in their configuration. They do not realize that they hold an equal amount of significance. They need to realize that they have the divine inside themselves too like others and refrain from harming themselves unknowingly.