Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

Content Warning: This part of the guide discusses mental illness, addiction, and some of the author’s controversial views, notably on gender roles, and will describe those positions without endorsing or condemning them. 

Jordan Peterson is a Canadian psychologist, professor, and public intellectual. A native of Alberta, he became fascinated with the work of Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung (himself a protégé of Sigmund Freud), and returned to pursue studies in psychology, eventually earning a PhD from McGill University. For many years, Peterson was both a professor at Harvard University and a clinical practitioner. In 1998, he accepted a professorship at the University of Toronto, where he would stay for many years, and began publishing YouTube videos that would later inform his growing fame. In 1999, he published Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, an exhaustive study of how the teachings of world religions can provide insights into the fundamental workings of the human mind. 

In 2013, Peterson started uploading some of his academic content to YouTube, but he did not become a public figure until 2016, when he publicly opposed the Canadian government’s (ultimately successful) effort to include gender identity and expression as protected classes against discrimination. Peterson then reached new levels of fame with the publication of

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