Jordan Peterson - 12 Rules for Life in 20 Minutes 

With regards to rule 12... There were times in my life I survived by taking my day 10 minutes at a time. By that, I mean that's how close I was to suicide. I postponed it 10 minutes at a time, until the day was done, & I went to bed. That's how I got through the worst day's in my life... ...10 minutes at a time. Clearly, it works. I'm still here. I share this hoping it help's someone who is going through their own Dark Night of the Soul. You CAN make it through the Bad day's 10 minutes at a time.

2:06 Rule 1. Stand up straight with your shoulders back 2:13 Rule 2. Treat yourself like you're someone [you're] responsible for helping 2:25 Rule 3. Make friends with those people who want the best for you 3:26 Rule 4. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday and not to who someone else is today 4:01 Rule 5. Don't let your children do anything that makes you dislike them 4:42 Rule 6. Put your house in perfect order before you criticize the world 5:13 Rule 7. Do what is meaningful and not what is expedient 5:28 Rule 8. Tell the truth or at least don't lie. 6:29 Rule 9. Assume that the person you're listening to knows something you don't. 8:19 Rule 10. Be precise in your speech. 11:32 Rule 11. Don't bother children when they're *skateboarding* 18:53 Rule 12. Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street

This is the most polite and caring comment section I have ever seen. There’s hope in this world after all.

You don't get what you don't aim at. You might get what you do aim at and your aim might get better as you aim. This is truly gold.

This man saved my life and pulled me out of my deep crippling depression. I don't know how you do it Mr. Peterson but I could never thank you enough for guiding me onto the right path. My life has gone uphill drastically and I suffer from crippling social anxiety and a decade of heavy addiction. Much love and positivity to everyone.

The people I thought wanted the best for me actually wanted me to be the best for them

Rule #1 - Stand up straight with your shoulders back Rule #2 - Treat yourself like you’re someone responsible for helping Rule #3 - Make friends with those who want the best for you Rule #4 - Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who others are today Rule #5 - Don’t let your children do anything that makes you dislike them Rule #6 - Put your house in perfect order before you criticize the world Rule #7 - Do what is meaningful and not what is expedient Rule #8 - Tell the truth, or at least don’t lie Rule #9 - Assume that the person you’re listening to knows something you don’t Rule #10 - Be precise in your speech Rule #11 - Don’t bother children while they’re skateboarding Rule #12 - Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street

"bind your ambition with humility" WOOW

1. Standup straight with your shoulders back 2. Treat yourself like you're someone responsible for helping 3. Make friends with those people who want the best for you 4. Compare yourself with who you were yesterday and no who someone is today 5. Don't let your children do anything that makes you dislikes them 6. Put your house in perfect before you criticize the world 7. Do what is meaningful and not what is expedient 8. Tell the truth or at least don't lie 9. Assume the person that you're listening to knows something you don't 10. Be precise in your speech 11. Don't bother your children when they're skateboarding 12. Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street Thank me with your comments.

I think Jordan Peterson is the type of person that our current world needed in order to transform itself into a better world. I believe that one day, our world will be a happier place for every single one of us, even if that is after hundreds of years. The world where everyone strives to do good for the world, where everyone helps each other out, and where everyone is motivated to pursue their true passion. He always emphasizes how the upbringing of our children is extremely important, to the level where if done incorrectly, could be a disaster. And look at how many people watch him talk and agree. MILLIONS of people are watching these videos and those people and their children will grow up to become adults that now have the potential to make this world a happier place for all of us. Also their children, and their children, AND their children. Peterson or maybe even all of us who are watching his videos now might not even see that happy world. But I'm certain that the people living in the future will look back to this time in history and remember and maybe even celebrate this guy and our adjacent generations, when everyone in the world became connected through the internet and realized that there are actually a lot of people who want to and will make the world a better, happier place. Thank you for making a difference.

just remember Jordan Peterson believes in you, even if no one else does, including yourself.

I received this book as a Christmas present. I'm getting through it slowly when time allows. It's not light reading, but already I see alignment with aspects of my life and my personal philosophies. Nothing special but supportive. Read it!

Read the book, even picked up some the rule and philosophy in my 60 years, JP articulates them in a way that make me confident that I'm not losing my mind in a rapidly changing world.

One of, if not, the best speakers I have ever heard in my life. I'm proud to be a countryman to this great man.

I’m a single mom raise a boy and I listen to Jordan Peterson one for my self but also for my son. His dad his hardly in the picture. He’s 5 now but when he’s about 13 or 14 or plan to have him read this book or listen on auditable and have him write me a short summary and what he took out of each chapter (ruler) Jordan Peterson is a father for those that don’t have one.

Peterson for president ! Dont care what country Ill move there!

The world needs more people like this guy.

Attended this and was inspired. Not one political comment and that's why people should attend or listen to lectures and not just targeted stuff.

I have so much respect for this man.

Australia also needs you. First world countries need you to save them from insanity. Your sane wisdom is what the new breeds need to keep the sanity alive.

I love what Jordan Peterson has to say. Wish I had learned these things when I was much younger. Wonder if they are still applicable to me as a 56-year-old factory worker That hates his job.

Wish I learned all these disciplines 50 years ago. You young folks would be wise to heed his advice. v/r Colleen

All society needs is to ensure the future generations manage to put these words into practice with 100% accuracy.

So I'm a 37 year old first Nations Canadian I have nothing but respect for JP I have been lost since I lost my Mom 2015 I have been on SA every since but before that I worked carpentry pipe fitting plumbing film school OFA level 3 & JP I don't know how to get ahold of you but you helped me find my motivation after losing my inspiration my late mother who raised me and my three brother all by her self

SAW THE PROFESSOR IN PERTH, HE,S HELPED ME START CARRYING AS MUCH AS I CAN,MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY,YOUR IN MY PRAYERS.THANKS FOR GIVING A DAMN!!!

I love how he never says "um" when lecturing. Man knows what he is talking about.

Am listening and speechless ....thank you Sir from my heart

I learned a lot from this entire speech; but the topic starting at 10:35 regarding “You’re not living up to your potential” really struck a chord with me.. I was mainly brought up in the foster care system and unfortunately, never found a family who cared more about me than one of the “benefits” they received as a result of me living with them. I can only imagine that must’ve been the reason (or part of the reason anyway) why no one cared enough about whether I was living up to my potential or not. I can only assume that was why I regrettably didn’t value my commanders opinion, as a 17 year old in AIT, when he said those very words to me. At the time I couldn’t get past the judgment to appreciate the compliment. Thank you for uploading this! It gave me a few things to think about.

Make one of your major goals [EVERY DAY] to learn and make yourself less ignorant and be pleased by that when you go to sleep at night.Sleeping on a positive attitude is extremely healthy to mind and body. Determined to make more progress tomorrow so you improve yourself so you are able to help others. We can not help others if we first can't take care of ourselves. Has very little to do with money but you must care for yourself to be able to help others.

Dear Doctor, one would think, in the study of Carl Jung, we would think, you'd stay away from Pharmaceutical products. You talk about the shadow, you must face it. Sometimes the hardest advice to follow is your very own. I hope you choose to face it and never go back, because when you walk out of this, you are going to be one of the greatest minds that ever existed, up there with Jung and Aristotle. May you be blessed, and rise to the next level of enlightenment, so close. Namaste. Your teaching changed my life, my charkra is looking up to yours. We need this in today's day and age.

Thank you. Lots of love from an Australian 🇦🇺😀

Dr Jordan Peterson plants the seeds in people’s life’s that can help you grow personally and professionally. Dave PhD

I think everyone is blown away by this guy because someone is finally just saying the information instead having to pay or go to pay at a seminar

Wonderful speech! I find Dr Jordan Peterson to be a concentrated of knowledge in his field, intelligence, wisdom, pragmatism and clarity. A real pleasure to listen to!

It's very difficult to find people who want the best out of you, usually friends don't fall in this category

In some other talks Dr Peterson gives it is a bit harder (for me anyway) since it is a bit too high level for me to understand. This video is an excellent street-level explanation of the book. Bravo!

THANKS DAD

Thank you JP for this work. Your attention and clarity is appreciated and acknowledged 🤗

To me, he shines light on what's right ....We are actually going to see him next week ...I can hardly wait

Wonderful. I have been doing all of his 12 except for #5. Can't control what your children do, sometimes. He is such a great man. I believe there are good, strong, decent men in the world. Jordan Peterson is proof. He is just one of a handful of good men.

This man is an absolute gem in a worl that has very few

First clean up your room, then face your evil and doom. Get over your rights, speak truth without fright, and always your fallibility assume.

Great words have spoken Jordan Peterson. It was motivation and meaningful video for me. I better use this rules and procrastinate my schedule plan for my studies. Thanks a lot.

reading his book, it's amazing.

Thank you!

“Life is an adventure” -Jordan Peterson. I love that aphorism!

Oh God, it just reminded me why I gave up skateboarding, and it was my father trying always putting his hand in front of me to reduce my speed, it always made me fall actually. Yeah this guy hits to the core

12 Rues (with notes): 1. Stand up straight with your shoulders back 2. Treat yourself like you’re someone responsible for helping (not be nice to yourself) 3. Make friends / Associate with those who want the best for you - they get to demand the best from you 4. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday and not someone else today (use self as target for improvement and comparison) 5. Don’t let your children do anything that makes you dislike them (if you dislike them other people will). Don’t let them act in a way that makes other children or adults dislike them. Help your child learn how to behave so that the social world welcomes them at every level. 6. Put your house in order before you criticise the world. (Not: take action only if you have act together). Bind your ambition with humility and work on what’s right in front of you that you will suffer for if you get wrong before you engage in the large scale transformation of other people 7. Do what is meaningful and not what is expedient (convenient and practical but immoral and improper) - core ethos of 12 rules 8. Tell the truth or at least don’t lie. Lying corrupts (your own perceptions / judgment) the instinctual mechanisms that manifest themselves as meaning and then you can’t rely on (yourself) those mechanisms, then you have nothing to rely on. 9. Assume that the person listening to you knows something that you don’t. Mark of respect for the other person, but more so a mark of recognition of your own unbearable ignorance. If you believe that things could still be put right around you in your own personal life, as well as the effect that you have on other people, then what you don’t yet know is more important than what you do know. You should be paying attention to find out what you don’t know at every possible moment 10. Be precise in your speech. Psychology of perception: you don’t get what you don’t aim at. You might get what you aim at (your aim might get better as you aim). Specify the nature of the being that you want to bring into being to radically increase chances. Confront the field of potential: choices determine which elements of potential concretise themselves. A lot of potential that you’re not fully realising = transgression against the good 11. Don’t bother children when they’re “skateboarding.” Courage and encouragement. Don’t interfere with the child’s willingness to voluntarily expose themselves to the necessary risks of doing inadvisably dangerous things that they need to expose themselves to in order to develop the competence that allows them to thrive in a world that cannot be sheltered from. To interfere is not love or empathy but cowardice (and parental selfishness to just worry less) and much more deeply damaging to children. - Do not do anything for anyone they can do for themselves. Form of theft: it steals their success which is rightfully theirs. - The world is touched with betrayal and malevolence. There is something in you that is capable of taking that full-on and transcending it. As difficult as things are, you’re up to the challenges. There is no security in the final analysis of life. You can only create or rely on so much safety. Encouragement is a much better medication than sheltering. Life essentially is not a place to attain or even aim at happiness (despite gratefully receiving some), but rather something like adventure. 12. “Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.” Fragility or facing a terrible tragedy: what to do when you don’t know what to do. Narrow your timefame because sometimes the right way to look at the world is across years, months or weeks, or for crises days/hours/minutes. Concentrate on as well as you can with what’s right in front of you for the longest unit of time you can concentrate.

Well it was about time to clean my room

Excellent lecture

Despite JP haven't come to Brazil yet, I bought 12 Rules. It is one of the most important books I have read. I am always seeing Portuguese versions in the bookstores here.

Wow! I am positively amazed that extremely large majority of listeners of this video found these rules smart and useful! There's hope for the humanity after all!

also due to peterson i ve realized i can love myself and my life and this is not a trivial thing

Strength comes from within. Semper Fi.

Just bought the book - looking forwards to reading this.

Really thought provoking and very informative and realistically helpful and are great meaningful tips for life

Oh look, a serious man. Haven't seen one of those in a while.

He's coming to my city, on a day I have off too, but at $500 a ticket I'm happy for youtube

I appreciate all you do. Thank you so very much. ✨💙✨

Watch this every morning, while you are getting ready for the day!

Thank you cameraman Very smooth

the more i listen to his lectures the more i d,like to listen

Thank you,Sir! True and helpful

Many, many years ago Wayne Dyer saved my life and sanity. I pray and believe Jordan Peterson is saving lives and sanity today. I read a remark that I know is true: Comes the hour, comes the man.

Jordan reminds us that basking in happiness might not be the best purpose of life. Engaging in intelligent adventure and romance may be better. ❤

I agree with all he said in this video.

Thank you...great rules...great speach

Well said

I like this man a lot

I love JP

Loved it.

Anyone with teenagers and older children can testify that it's almost impossible to stop them from doing things you don't like. They go out of their way to do such things!

0:12 Numbers are more real than anything else. That's why I'm a math teacher.

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Great guy! Very inspirational!

Peterson has said this numerous times in his many lectures: be encouraging! (not palliating!!) It takes so little and means so much.

Love that. Adventure is more important than happiness.

Amen. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Yes!!! Rule 5 a big practice of mine

Great stuff

Love this guy.

I aked my father about getting through life and how to best do that. His answer was simple and expedient. "Just be fair, honest and reasonable son, that'll do it." I have tried to live by that simple codex. He was right. He also taught me to expect that from others. If they didn't live up to it, I was to forget them. He was right there too....

2:40 Just like the increasing need of physical exercise. As we have developed machines to do most of our manual work, we now strive for taking extra time to workout.

Rule no.1 stand up straight with your shoulders back 2. Treat yourself like someone who is responsible for helping (isn’t the same as be nice to yourself ,its not like that) 3. Make friends with the people who want the best for you ( means that they get to demand the best from you) 4. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday and not to who someone else is today . 5. Dont let your children do things that makes you dislike them. (If you dislike them, then other people will). 6. Put your house in perfect order before your criticize the world’s order. 7. Do what is meaningful and not what is expedient 8. Tell the truth or at least dont lie ( the fundamental lesson if you lie you corrupt your own perception and if you corrupt your own perception then you cant rely on yourself and if you cant rely on yourself then good luck to you because what are going to rely on in the absence of your own judgement. 9. Assume that the person you are listening to knows something you dont. 10. Be precise in your speach. (You dont get what you dont aim at). 11. Dont bother children when you’re skate-bording. (If you do something for someone and it facilitates their movement forward then they moved forward because You helped them). 12. Pet a cat when you encounter one in the street. (Its a discussion of what you do when you dont know what to do). The necissity of narrowing your time frame ,sometimes the right way to look at the world is across years and sometimes its across months and when things are more out of control perhaps its across days,hours and even minutes. And during thoes minutes then you concentrate on doing as well as you can with whats right infron of you. The longest unit of time that you can tolerate conceptualize it. You also take the time to appreciate everything you can that manifests itself that allows itself to be appreciated. And so thats the metaphore of cat I suppose. And thats the twelve rules and I’ll return to rule one which is :stand up straight with your shoulders back.

9:53 concretize. Nice word.

So powerful that there is a book in the Bible titled “ Numbers.”

He has the most soothing voice

Thank you 💛🌟

I had to block some dude that was calling him an actor and a fake, controlled opposition was his words . I felt sad for him

As a parent, get your children ready to flee the nest is always a good aim.

Brilliant

Awesome thank you

To think that the book he wrote on this has been pulled from nz bookshops since the christchurch event..wtf?

Initially I thought this was going to a right wing sermon and was preparing to criticise the presentation, but many of the rules Jordan Peterson described are the rules frequently broken in our western society and very plausible reason as to why our societies are sliding down the path of a nanny state and dumping down our offspring. The helicopter parenting, cotton wooling and every child gets an award regardless of whether they earn it is setting them up for failure, depression and disaster. I likes Jordan's description of the couple that planed to go cycling point our that we should be the encourager of the adventure of life.

In one of the interviews he mentioned how much energy does it take to give a speech in from of the audience. Completely understand.

Peterson has the rare talent to speak a lot of words, make you believe he's made some really insightful points, without saying anything of real importance or relevance.

Why the add????? No one thought about this????????? Really escape 9-5 ....... Thats all u got We need more to mess us up This is easy Thank you J

Jordan doesn't align as right as Trump and I, but he is still good. He's a moderate.

It can sound absurd. But when I started to aim higher all kinds of success began to show. It seemed almost magically. I new I had the ability & potential to do better in my life but I had never needed it. I realized when I aimed higher that I always had needed these 'successes' all along. This being or trying to be the best version of oneself. I think we need to do this not only for ourselves but for the world around us. Making life better by aiming higher and becoming the best version of ourselves. All this makes our surroundings follow and can make our world a better place.

Inspirational