BY JORDAN PETERSON
So, let me get this straight. This book sure has a lot of hypes. May it be in youtube or in instagram or in goodreads, any other bookstore that is open; I could see this everywhere.
Everyone says nothing but very good takeaways from this book. I wanted to be blown away by this book too. Unfortunately, I was not. I must be very honest before proceeding further.
I didn’t read the last 2 chapters of the 12 chapters book. Yes you guessed it right, each chapter is dedicated to one rule that is an antidote to the chaos. I also read only parts of chapter 6.
Now, if you are not ok with me telling anything about this book without giving a 100% percent read of it, go ahead; skip this post. But, if you are curious to know what I have in mind after reading the 10 chapters, well 9 and a half chapters of this book and stopped or for some reason rushed to write a review, please read on.
First of all, I didn’t rush to write this review. I had stopped reading this book back a month ago. But I was very hesitant to write about it, because it gave me a dilemma of, if it is even ethical for me to do so. So, I decided to go for it with a disclaimer.
I wanted to be enlightened to be honest. I read the author’s note, and Jordan Peterson explained that he went on writing this book after his quora response proved exemplary and turned out he had more to say than that.
Well, I guess, there is not a lot.
Every rule is quite good. I don’t find flaw in them. But the book, with a lot of pages for each rule, was not worth it. Each rule can be well made into a point within say 5 to 6 pages. If you are eloquent with your words, then maybe go ahead, be generous and take 10 pages, each.
I feel like the author went overboard with the biblical stories to make the rule come to life. But to me, they weren’t even going with the rule he was trying to establish. It seems to take a wide detour and the author desperately wants to make the point with the story. The reasoning was too vague and there was no proper justification.
Apart from this, as the book hold its name, the 12 rules are quite good. They will change your life? Maybe.
But I didn’t feel it.
The most fun part I enjoyed was about how he says about there is no order anywhere and we kind of try to bring in order to the chaos but we can’t solely do that. For me, it hit in a different way, the rules will atleast help us in that way.
My favorite of all was – Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.
It is a good read, if you don’t mind the long biblical stories or taking a detour.
Rating: 2/5
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