what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the
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health I love it I love it I love it anyways yeah we're doing a mental health
book review today and today I'm going to be talking about 12 rules for life by
Jordan B Peterson so the way I was introduced to this book is I'm a big fan
of sam Harris he's kind of like a modern-day philosopher he's really into
meditation and things like that I did another video about his book called
waking up and it's about spirituality without religion which on down with so I
dig that stuff anyways when watching videos about sam harris like the name
jordan Peterson kept popping up I keep hearing people talking about him
so Jordan Peterson for those of you who don't know he is a college professor he
is a psychologist and he's also somewhat of a scientist as well as kind of like a
modern-day philosopher and I've heard you know some rumblings of some some
kind of drama that he's been in for you know his free speech and things like
that and that's not really what this video is about I will touch on it a
little bit as I talk about this book anyways I want to pick up his book I've
heard people talk about him like you know what I got it I gotta check this
thing out and see what it's about so I was interested because I think
philosophy and you know the fact that he's a psychologist these are things
that I could use to help people so pretty much and I'll let you know like
how am i what what makes me pick a book I pick a book for two reasons one of two
reasons okay the first reason is that I believe it will help me okay I read a
book that I think will help me out help me out with my mental health or
just other things I'm doing in life so I'm not I'm not really into fiction I
like fiction but my reading time is limited so I look for videos about
mental health and just to educate myself and things like that which goes into
number two the second reason I read books is to help each and every one of
you so I'll pick up books that I think will help me make better content more
content and then I guess there's reason number three is that the book is gonna
help me and then it will help you to write so we're all getting help so
that's kind of why I pick the books that I read so I picked up Jordan Peterson's
book and that like I'll tell you this like I wasn't a huge fan of the book I
think it's a great book I think it's a great book and I think a lot of people
will get a lot out of it like Jordan Peterson has you know gained a massive
following in recent months or in the last year or two because of what he's
doing I'm actually thinking about doing another video comparing him to Gary
Vaynerchuk which for any of you who know who Gary Vaynerchuk is and who daughter
Peterson is you might be like what but I don't know it's interesting to me just
as somebody who looks at you know mental health and human behavior and things
like that the guys like this they're stepping into this role of almost like a
father figure and that's how they're gaining such a following and it seems
like that's what people need and like I can understand why people are following
their work so anyways the twelve rules for life it was written by Jordan Jordan
Peterson he was uh he was somebody who liked to go on Cora
I don't know if you know about that website I used to go on there but
anyways it's a place where people post questions and even answer questions and
Jordan would go on there you know just when he got bored and he would answer
questions and somebody said like what are the rules of life that you think
everybody should follow he made a list it got like a massive
amount of uploads which is hard to do on that side and eventually you know he
started he started writing this book he also has a YouTube channel he started
recording his lectures at the college he works out up in Canada and yeah that's
kind of how I started gaming is following but then he started getting
interviewed and he had some some things happen and discussions about language
when it comes to you know trans people and things like that and
that's a whole nother story but anyways I will be honest like a lot of his
following is young men and I I've seen and you might have heard about some of
the viral videos like get an interview with I believe it was Channel four in
the United Kingdom and you know it was it was an interesting interview I just
recently watched it but some of them make him seem like he's a misogynist and
I personally I don't think so like reading what what he's all about I think
you know and I really wanted wanted to stay away from making this video
political but whatever I think that there are people who are extreme to the
social justice side who take what he says out of context but when you listen
to what he's saying like he's not a misogynist in any way
he's about equality and things like that I think he comes off as one because he
helps a lot of young men all right this book he I think it's good I was
expecting a lot more science a lot more psychology out of it and in the first
couple chapters which are broken down into the rules right he did a good job
of it like and I was like okay cool so I kept I kept going right one thing is I
first not the first time I heard about this book but I heard about this book
when PewDiePie recently did one of his book reviews he said there was a lot of
religion and I'm like this guy doesn't seem like the religious to me so when I
start reading the book his first book was heavily based around religion but to
me and I haven't read his other book yet but it seemed to me almost like another
book I read called religion for atheist which I'm gonna talk about in a second
so I started getting into the book and like yeah man
I don't know even though Jordan Peterson doesn't really like say he's religious
or anything like that like this book had way too much religion for my blood
and it's nothing against religion it's just like for me
it was just way too much it was way way way too much but I find it interesting -
so Jordan Peterson I was watching an interview he did with I think Joe Rogan
and he was saying how some of his followers are referred to themselves as
Christian atheists I can get on board with that like I get it I get what these
people are saying I'm like one thing that I will give credit to with Jordan
Peterson is that he's getting through to people by using religion to teach life
lessons rather than trying to convert people to a religion I hope that makes
sense I'm coming from a 12-step background
that's what I feel 12-step programs are doing like there's
a lot of misconceptions that 12-step programs or religions and it's like no
like they're using these things to kind of teach you how to be a better person
and that's what Jordan Peterson does it's just for me personally I think a
lot of people will enjoy this book like it was like a New York Times bestseller
for me personally it was just way too much yeah it's way too much so if you
can get through it and stuff like that like go for it because he does a great
job especially being philosophical and pulling from these different stories
from like Genesis and like Adam and Eve and all these other things and like
talking about how humans are just you know flawed and you know things like
that like he does a good job but sometimes it's just way too much for my
liking all right but there are other things where he does a great job like
that I really did like like I think it was like the first chapter where he
talks about biofeedback and I'm gonna do a separate video on this about gaining
more confidence by standing up straight with your shoulders back and there's so
a lot of science behind it and he uses this lobster reference that a lot of
people don't get but he explains it very well in this book like if more of the
book was about you know psychology and biofeedback and neuroscience I feel like
I would have liked it a lot more but there was a lot there was a lot of
religion in it and anyways there's another book I read I haven't done any
videos on it but there's a book called religion for atheists okay and it's
written by a man by the name of Alain de Botton
so you might have heard of YouTube channel called the School of
Life if you haven't please go check it out it is a great great great channel it
is an amazing channel and a baton started the school of life and he's an
atheist and he's a philosopher okay and he wrote a book called religion for
atheists and I'm extremely spiritual and I'm always trying to find different
books that can explain these things better than I can so I can help teach my
clients well I'm trying to get them into 12-step programs which I also need to
make more videos on about how there's a difference between religious and
spirituality but to have it also like Alain de Botton talked about all of the
valuable things you can pull from religion without being religious like I
thought that was a big deal so when I look at what Jordan Peterson's doing
like I don't think Jordan Peterson is stealing anything from the pond but I I
do think that if you're a fan of Jordan Peterson you definitely need to check
out some valent a Bhutan's work if you would like like when you check in down
in the description I have my whole entire book list you will see that book
listed excellent book excellent excellent excellent book anyways I'm
gonna be honest with you I wanted to wait until the end of the video to share
this I actually stopped reading this book like like I said you know my gripe
with it just way too much religion for me I stopped reading it but I think it's
a good book I think a lot of people can get something out of it if you are
Christian if you're religious you'll like this you'll like this book a whole
lot more than I did and like I think even other people you know who are
religious like will get a lot out of this book it's great but like I was
saying one of the reasons I read books is to help me help me improve as a
person and with my mental health and all of the rules that he was going through
like they were things that I've already worked on in my development like if I
would have found this book when I first got sober I definitely would have
finished it so like I don't want you to think this is a bad review of the book
it was just me personally it doesn't work out for me so I hope I explained
this book fairly well because I do think a lot of people should check it out like
if you come to my channel and I'm looking for stuff to read to improve
your mental health like I think this book will help you out
and a lot of it like he covers a wide range of topics like just like parenting
you know what I mean how to be a better person in the community how to take
responsibility for your actions like there's so many different things that
people need to start doing to improve their life and improve this world so I
definitely recommend this book if you think any of the things like touches
touched on might help you okay but anyways anyways I would love to know
your thoughts what do you think about jordan peterson have you read this book
leave them down into the comments down below but also like i mentioned if you
check the description there will be a link to this book if you want to check
it out as well as on my website the rewired soul calm where i have my entire
reading list if you want to start checking him out so once i stopped this
book i decided to go to a book that has been on my list it is called i hate you
don't leave me it was written in 2012 and it's all about borderline
personality disorders and it has like all of the latest research and i know
it's six years old but it has the latest research in it so that's the book I'm
reading right now so if you want to read this book with me I'll put a link to
that down below too I'm loving it so far and loving loving loving it because I
really want to make more videos about borderline personality disorder so if
you'd like to check that out it'll be down in the description too alright
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