#214 12 Rules for Life (Jordan B. Peterson)

-내 수준에 어려운 책이었다
-제목이나 챕터 제목만 보고 책을 던져버릴 사람들이 많을것 같다. 안타깝다.
-챕터 제목들은 빙산의 일각에 불과하다. 진짜로.
-한글책이든 원서든 두고두고 다시 펼쳐보고 싶다.
-적어도 내가 생각하는 삶의 의미가 고스란히 기술되어 있다.
-방대한 역사와 철학적 사유와 함께.

-초반에 스크랩을 하다가 중간에 포기했다.
-완독에 의미를 둔다. 지금은.

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 you speech.
Rule 11; Do not bother children when they are skateboarding.
Rule 12; Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.

It is because we are born human that we are guaranteed a good dose of suffering. (Foreword)

If you present yourself as defeated, then people will react to you as if you are losing. If you start to straighten up, then people will look at and treat you differently. (Rule 1)

How could the nature of man ever reach its full potential without challenge and danger? How dull and contemptible would we become if there was no longer reason to pay attention? (R2)

Talking yourself into irrelevance is not a profound critique of Being. It's a cheap trick of the rational mind. (R4)

You might be winning but you're not growing, and growing might be the most important form of winning. (R4)

What you aim at determines what you see. (R4)

Improvement of Being (R4)

When someone does something you are trying to get them to do, reward them. (R5)

Vengeance or Transformation (R6)

If the world you are seeing is not the world you want, therefore, it's time to examine your values. It's time to rid yourself of your current presuppositions. It's time to let go. It might even be time to sacrifice what you love best, so that you can become who you might become, instead of staying who you are. (R7)

Things fall apart. (R8)

<There's No Such Thing as a Dragon, by Jack Kent> (R10)
Mom; why it had to get so big?
Billy; maybe it wanted to be noticed.

<The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky> (R12)
Ivan; It's not God I don't accept. I do not accept the world that He created, this world of God's, and cannot agree with it.