Beyond Order

The companion volume to12 Rules for Lifeoffers further guidance on the perilous path of modern life.

In12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologistand celebrated professor at Harvard andthe University of Toronto Dr. Jordan B.Peterson helped millions of readers imposeorder on the chaos of their lives. Now, inthis bold sequel, Peterson delivers twelvemore lifesaving principles for resisting theexhausting toll that our desire to order theworld inevitably takes.

In a time when the human will increasinglyimposes itself over every sphere oflife-from our social structures to our emotionalstates-Peterson warns that too muchsecurity is dangerous. What's more, he offersstrategies for overcoming the cultural, scientific,and psychological forces causing us totend toward tyranny, and teaches us how torely insteadon our instinct to find meaningand purpose, even-and especially-when wefind ourselves powerless. While chaos, in excess, threatens us withinstability and anxiety, unchecked order canpetrify us into submission.Beyond Orderprovidesa call to balance these two fundamentalprinciples of reality itself, and guidesus along the straight and narrow path thatdivides them.