Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

Beyond Order is a companion volume to 12 Rules for Life that offers additional guidance for navigating modern life. Clinical psychologist and professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr. Jordan B. Peterson presents twelve more principles for resisting the toll that attempting to order the world takes on us. Peterson argues that excessive security carries dangers, particularly as human will increasingly shapes social structures and emotional states. He provides strategies for addressing cultural, scientific, and psychological forces that push toward tyranny, and explains how to draw on instinct to find meaning and purpose even when facing powerlessness. Peterson contends that while excess chaos threatens stability and creates anxiety, unchecked order can lead to submission. Beyond Order calls for balancing these two fundamental principles of reality and guides readers along the path between them.