Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?

[Rhondazvous]

First of all I realize this isn't philosophy in the academic sense but we don't have a psychology section and I suppose this book fits in the lay sense of "philosophy of life".  Jordan B. Peterson practices and teaches psychotherapy and has been called the greatest Canadian intellectual since Marshal McLuhan.  (I don't have an opinion about that claim.)

So I finally got my turn to look this book over which came out this year (2018) after waiting through 8 people ahead of me with a hold on it at my local library.  This is not the sort of book I'm usually attracted to read.  And I don't intend to read it straight through or very thoroughly.  I actually thought I'd be ripping into it for being cheesy.  But I don't hate it.

Apparently it started as a response to a question online at Quora and originally included many more than 12 'rules'.  They really amount to something more like "12 points of advice for leading a satisfying life" and there is a chapter devoted to each one in the book.  Mostly I agree with him.

Some require more elaboration to see what he has in mind, but here are the twelve 'rules' if you're interested:

---

1. Stand up straight with your shoulders back
   
   
2. Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping
   
   
3. Make friends with people who want the best for you
   

   ---

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today

---

Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them

Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world

Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)

Tell the truth – or, at least, don't lie

Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't

Be precise in your speech

Do not bother children when they are skateboarding

Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street

I'm not real gungho about this but if anyone else has looked it over or read about them and wish to discuss it, I can currently.  I've been reading a good bit in his chapter 8 on truth telling which I have to agree with.

---