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Jordan Peterson’s Beyond Order: If old memories still upset you, write them down carefully and completely. (Part 1)

April 1, 2021April 1, 2021Kyle

I’ve been working through Jordan Peterson’s new book Beyond Order (Amazon affiliate link), breaking down each chapter into halves so I can give each a fair treatment. This chapter is more heavily drawn from Peterson’s clinical practice, and involves multiple case studies.

I won’t dwell on his case studies at length, but I will discuss the takeaways more broadly to give a feel for what the lessons that helped his patients revealed about the proper way to live life.

Jordan Peterson’s Beyond Order: Try to make one room in your home as beautiful as possible. (Part 2)

March 31, 2021March 31, 2021Kyle

I’ve been working through Jordan Peterson’s new book Beyond Order (Amazon affiliate link), breaking down each chapter into halves so I can give each a fair treatment. The second part of this chapter returns in part to the original thrust that it appeared to be about, but there’s some interesting twists and turns along the way.

As usual, Peterson’s style throughout this chapter is mixed with anecdotes, philosophy, and a deeper understanding of issues. It draws upon some ways art can be an antidote to alienation.

Jordan Peterson’s Beyond Order: Try to make one room in your home as beautiful as possible. (Part 1)

March 30, 2021March 30, 2021Kyle

I’ve been working through Jordan Peterson’s new book Beyond Order (Amazon affiliate link), breaking down each chapter into halves so I can give each a fair treatment. I found this chapter interesting because it follows Peterson’s tradition of taking an unexpected approach to traditional problems.

Normally, one would expect some focus on aesthetics in a chapter with a title like this, and while Peterson certainly appreciates the idea of aesthetics he does not lay out a particular ideal. That’s probably for the best, though some hints at what Peterson likes (namely the poetry of William Blake) shine through.

Jordan Peterson’s Beyond Order: Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens. (Part 2)

March 28, 2021March 28, 2021Kyle

I’ve been working through Jordan Peterson’s new book Beyond Order (Amazon affiliate link), breaking down each chapter into halves so I can give each a fair treatment. You can find part 1 of this chapter through this link.

The power of orienting yourself toward a goal is that it ultimately requires you to integrate parts of yourself that might otherwise never be integrated. Disintegrated parts of the self are dangerous because they lack the direction that a unified person brings to their affairs.

Jordan Peterson’s Beyond Order: Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens. (Part 1)

March 26, 2021March 26, 2021Kyle

I’ve been working through Jordan Peterson’s new book Beyond Order (Amazon affiliate link), breaking down each chapter into halves so I can give each a fair treatment. I just finished the last part of the chapter on abandoning ideology.

Today I’m looking at the chapter on using effort to get what you want. As expected, it starts simple, but Peterson quickly takes it in novel directions.

Jordan Peterson’s Beyond Order Rule 6: Reject ideology. (Part 2)

March 24, 2021March 24, 2021Kyle

One thing that I find interesting about Peterson’s approach here is that he’s not as strict with the definition of ideology as one might think and he devotes relatively little effort to naming ideologies–he specifically focuses on Freud and Marx, though more to show the consequences of certain ways of thinking rather than as a particular critique of either.

Jordan Peterson’s Beyond Order Rule 6: Reject ideology. (Part 1)

March 21, 2021March 21, 2021Kyle

As expected from Peterson, who has given this subject a great deal of thought, there are lots of interesting and novel ideas, even for someone who is familiar with a lot of his source materials and the general field of study. He takes a very humble tone about his own abilities, but there’s a reason he’s so popular and it’s the intellectual caliber he brings to this sort of thing.

Jordan Peterson’s Beyond Order Rule 5: Do not do what you hate. (Part 2)

March 19, 2021March 19, 2021Kyle

As I mentioned previously, this is a shorter chapter, but I think there’s a lot to discuss so I broke it down in two parts. Right now part of the section that this overview covers is the excerpt over on the Beyond Order Amazon store page, and I’m willing to bet that they chose it as an exemplar because it’s a very interesting and powerful piece.

Jordan Peterson’s Beyond Order Rule 5: Do not do what you hate. (Part 1)

March 17, 2021March 17, 2021Kyle

Even though this is a much shorter chapter, I’m continuing my practice of splitting each chapter into halves for the sake of analysis. This should be fine, because there’s a lot to think about in this chapter.

In fact, this chapter has something of an intimate connection to me because I think that this, above all, is one of Peterson’s teachings that I latched on to from previous exposure to his lectures and it’s interesting to see him expand on it.

Jordan Peterson’s Beyond Order Rule 4: Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated. (Part 2)

March 15, 2021March 17, 2021Kyle

I felt somewhat disconnected as I went through the second half of this chapter. I don’t know if it’s Peterson’s fault or the fact that I had too much on my plate last week and I’ve been writing these sections a few days after I read, so almost a whole week had passed between reading the first half of this chapter and the second.