Summary of 12 Rules for Life

An Antidote to Chaos

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• Publisher: Gatsby
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN:
  9783965087590
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Human being does not like rules in general despite knowing that they benefit us. We do not want a lot of rules. However, without rules, we are likely to lose a sense of direction and go wayward. Therefore, we need rules. Here is a preview of what you'll learn: Rule 1 - Stand up Straight with Your Shoulders Back Rule 2- Treat Yourself Like Someone You Are Responsible for Helping Rule 3- Make Friends with People Who Want the Best for You Rule 4- Compare Yourself to Who You Were Yesterday, Not To Who Someone Else Is Today Rule 5- Do Not Let Your Children Do Anything That Makes You Dislike Them Rule 6- Set Your House in Perfect Order Before You Criticize the World Rule 7- Pursue what is Meaningful (Not what is Expedient) Rule 8- Tell the Truth- or At Least, Don't Lie Rule 9- Assume That The Person You Are Listening To Might Know Something You Don't Rule 10- Be Precise in Your Speech Rule 11- Do Not Bother Children When They Are Skateboarding Rule 12- Pet a Cat When You Encounter One on the Street

12 Rules for Life: Rule 1 - Stand up Straight with Your Shoulders Back

The example of lobsters indicate that they reside on the floor of the ocean since they need something secure to serve as a hub where they can hunt. However, since a huge number of lobsters exist, a complication arises if two or more lobsters occupy the same territory. If hundreds of lobsters attempt to hunt for food and keep a family in the same place, it will lead to chaos. Such territorial disputes also apply to the example of songbirds.

The example of chickens also indicates that identities play a critical role in the survival of birds as well. Those who preferred availability of food in the morning are the most important chickens owing to their visible superiority. The second most important are those that come a close second. The hierarchy goes down and the last are the chickens that are in a bad condition, they have a small amount of feathers left, etc. A dominance hierarchy is evident. Songbirds do not live collectively like chickens but the healthiest and most powerful of them have control over the main territory and shield it.

Over the course of millennia, animals that face a requirement to exercise cohabitation with others within the perimeters of a territory have learned several tricks to settle dominance with the least quantity of loss, handling conflict in their own ways. The neurochemistry of a lobster that wins is different from that of a lobster that loses and the levels of serotonin and octopamine makes a difference in this context. The principle of unequal distribution accentuates when a lobster that lost earlier recollects its courage and battles again, the probability of it losing again is high. A winning lobster will most probably win again. The same principles apply to the human financial world, where the few richest people on the planet have the same wealth as the billions of people that are at the bottom. The same pattern is evident in other fields such as science, music, etc., where a small number of people dominate a field in the form of its mastery. This principle is also known as Price's law.

Furthermore, female lobsters recognize the most significant male rapidly and are irrevocably attracted to him. Females of other species including humans also do this. They leave it to the dominance hierarchy to figure out who the best man is and let the males battle it out. This applies to the stock market as well. When the females are prepared to mate, they try to attract the dominant lobster with different tactics. The successful one gets the male. Since lobsters have been around for several million years, it shows that dominance hierarchies have existed since time immemorial and all complex forms of life had to adjust to it. This highlights that even though brains and nervous systems were quite simple earlier, they still had the neurochemistry and structure required to take details pertaining to status and society into account.

Confidence plays an extremely significant role in helping the fittest survive. Those with the right mindset and internal features succeed. Those who feel that they are not up to the mark are likely to fail. The occurrences in an individual’s life get registered in their brain as good or bad. If an individual expects people to be nice since they are nice themselves, they are w...

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• Summary of 12 Rules for Life
• 12 Rules for Life: Rule 1 - Stand up Straight with Your Shoulders Back
• 12 Rules for Life: Rule 2- Treat Yourself Like Someone You Are Responsible for Helping
• 12 Rules for Life: Rule 3- Make Friends with People Who Want the Best for You
• 12 Rules for Life: Rule 4- Compare Yourself to Who You Were Yesterday, Not To Who Someone Else Is Today
• 12 Rules for Life: Rule 5- Do Not Let Your Children Do Anything That Makes You Dislike Them
• 12 Rules for Life: Rule 6- Set Your House in Perfect Order Before You Criticize the World
• 12 Rules for Life: Rule 7- Pursue what is Meaningful (Not what is Expedient)
• 12 Rules for Life: Rule 8- Tell the Truth- or At Least, Don’t Lie
• 12 Rules for Life: Rule 9- Assume That The Person You Are Listening To Might Know Something You Don’t
• 12 Rules for Life: Rule 10- Be Precise in Your Speech
• 12 Rules for Life: Rule 11- Do Not Bother Children When They Are Skateboarding
• 12 Rules for Life: Rule 12- Pet a Cat When You Encounter One on the Street
• Background Information about the Summary of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
• Background Information about the Author: Jordan B. Peterson
• Discussion Questions about the Summary of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
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