Jordan Peterson recently released a video documenting his 42 rules to dominate this year (2021), or simple rules for improving yourself. You can view the full video here : https://youtu.be/Z7NFZ7b_67M
I found the video to be motivating and enlightening and would like to share.
For your reading pleasure, here are his 42 rules:
- Tell the truth
- Do not do things that you hate
- Act so that you can tell the truth about how you act
- Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient
- If you have to choose, be the one who does things, instead of the one who is seen to do things
- Pay attention
- Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you need to know. Listen to them hard enough so that they will share it with you.
- Plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationships
- Be careful who you share good news with
- Be careful who you share bad news with
- Make at least one thing better every single place you go
- Imagine who you could be, and then aim single-mindedly at that
- Do not allow yourself to become arrogant or resentful
- Try to make one room in your house as beautiful as possible
- Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today
- Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens
- If old memories still make you cry, write them down carefully and completely
- Maintain your connections with people
- Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or artistic achievement
- Treat yourself as if you were someone that you are responsible for helping
- Ask someone to do you a small favour, so that he or she can ask you to do one in the future
- Make friends with people who want the best for you
- Do not try to rescue someone who does not want to be rescued
- and be very careful about rescuing someone who does
- Nothing well done is insignificant
- Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world
- Dress like the person you want to be
- Be precise in your speech
- Stand up straight with your shoulders back
- Don’t avoid something frightening if it stands in your way
- and don’t do unnecessarily dangerous things
- Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them
- Do not transform your wife into a maid
- Do not hide unwanted things in the fog
- Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated
- Read something written by someone great
- Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street
- Don’t bother children when they are skateboarding
- Don’t let bullies get away with it
- Write a letter to the government if you see something that needs fixing — and propose a solution
- Remember that what you do not yet know is more important than what you already know
- Be grateful in spite of your suffering
Item number 15 especially resonates with me and is an area that I will focus on for the duration of this year. If you are impacted by a rule, I would also love to hear, please don’t hesitate to let me know.
Dr. Peterson is a writer, professor, and clinical psychologist. If you’d like to consume more of his material, you can visit his website here : https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/
