BEST Jordan B. Peterson Books & Quotes of All Time (October 2022)

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1. Who Is Jordan B. Peterson?

2. The Best Jordan B. Peterson Books of All Time

3. More Books Like Jordan B. Peterson's Books

4. Best Jordan B. Peterson Quotes

5. Wish There Was a Faster/Easier Way?

Who Is Jordan B. Peterson?

Jordan B. Peterson (born 12 June 1962) is a Canadian clinical psychologist, YouTube personality, author, and professor emeritus of psychology. He began to receive widespread attention in the late 2010s for his views on cultural and political issues, often described as conservative, and is most widely known for his book 12 Rules for Life.

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The Best Jordan B. Peterson Books of All Time

Why these best Jordan B. Peterson books and not others? To stay objective, I rank all my book recommendations by a combination of what’s most loved (Goodreads rating), what’s most popular (Goodreads review count) and what’s proven timlessly relevant (first publication date).

This isn’t a whimsical list. It’s a data-driven, crowdsourced collection of the best Jordan B. Peterson books ever published as decided by book lovers like you.

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Until then, here are the best Jordan B. Peterson books of all time...

Best Jordan B. Peterson Books: Beyond Order

1. Beyond Order - Jordan B. Peterson

12 More Rules For Life

Published 2021 // 432 pages // Rated 4.2 over 11,300 reviews on Goodreads

Best Jordan B. Peterson Books: Maps of Meaning

2. Maps of Meaning - Jordan B. Peterson

The Architecture of Belief

Published 1999 // 564 pages // Rated 4.1 over 4,200 reviews on Goodreads

Best Jordan B. Peterson Books: 12 Rules for Life

3. 12 Rules for Life - Jordan B. Peterson (FREE Summary)

An Antidote to Chaos

12 Rules for Life is a #1 international bestseller that distills some of life's toughest questions into accessible, practical advice - by the New York Times's "most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now," Jordan B. Peterson.

Published 2018 // 409 pages // Rated 3.9 over 149,600 reviews on Goodreads

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Best Jordan B. Peterson Quotes

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"To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order… It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality."

- Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

"So attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind… Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead."

- Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

"You must help a child become a virtuous, responsible, awake being, capable of full reciprocity — able to take care of himself and others, and to thrive while doing so. Why would you think it acceptable to do anything less for yourself?"

- Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

"Sometimes, when people have a low opinion of their own worth — or, perhaps, when they refuse responsibility for their lives — they choose a new acquaintance, of precisely the type who proved troublesome in the past."

- Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

"It’s a good thing, not a selfish thing to choose people who are good for you."

- Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

"The solutions to your particular problems have to be tailored to you, personally and precisely."

- Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

"Friends have very limited authority to correct."

- Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

"Start to stop doing what you know to be wrong."

- Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

"Life is suffering. That’s clear. There is no more basic, irrefutable truth."

- Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

"See the truth. Tell the truth."

- Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

"If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of."

- Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

"If you pay careful attention, even on a bad day, you may be fortunate enough to be confronted with small opportunities of just that sort. Maybe you will see a little girl dancing on the street because she is all dressed up in a ballet costume. Maybe you will have a particularly good cup of coffee in a cafe that cares about their customers. Maybe you can steal ten or twenty minutes to do some ridiculous thing that distracts you or reminds you that you can laugh at the absurdity of existence."

- Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

"People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand. Faulty tools produce faulty results. It is in this manner that those who fail to learn from the past doom themselves to repeat it."

- Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

"Parents have a duty to act as proxies for the real world—merciful proxies, caring proxies—but proxies, nonetheless. This obligation supersedes any responsibility to ensure happiness, foster creativity, or boost self-esteem. It is the primary duty of parents to make their children socially desirable. That will provide the child with opportunity, self-regard, and security. It’s more important even than fostering individual identity. That Holy Grail can only be pursued, in any case, after a high degree of social sophistication has been established."

- Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

"People think they think, but it’s not true. It’s mostly self-criticism that passes for thinking. True thinking is rare — just like true listening. Thinking is listening to yourself. It’s difficult. To think, you have to be at least two people at the same time. Then you have to let those people disagree. Thinking is an internal dialogue between two or more different views of the world."

- Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

"Human beings are, after all, seriously remarkable creatures. We have no peers, and it’s not clear that we have any real limits. Things happen now that appeared humanly impossible even at the same time in the recent past when we began to wake up to our planet-sized responsibilities."

- Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

"Hating life, despising life – even for the genuine pain that life inflicts – merely serves to make life itself worse, unbearably worse. There is no genuine protest in that. There is no goodness in that, only the desire to produce suffering, for the sake of suffering. That is the very essence of evil. People who come to that kind of thinking are one step from total mayhem. Sometimes they merely lack the tools. Sometimes, like Stalin, they have their finger on the nuclear button."

- Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

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