Rule I. Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement -- Rule II. Imagine who you could be, and then aim single-mindedly at that -- Rule III. Do not hide unwanted things in the fog -- Rule IV. Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated -- Rule V. Do not do what you hate -- Rule VI. Abandon ideology -- Rule VII. Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens -- Rule VIII. Try to make one room in your home as beautiful as possible -- Rule IX. If old memories still upset you, write them down carefully and completely -- Rule X. Plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationship -- Rule XI. Do not allow yourself to become resentful, deceitful or arrogant -- Rule XII. Be grateful in spite of your suffering.

"As a follow-up to 12 Rules for Life, the author provides twelve additional rules related to the overarching theme of how the dangers of too much security and control might be profitably avoided"

In a time when the human will increasingly imposes itself over every sphere of life, Peterson warns that too much security is dangerous. In 12 Rules for Life, he helped millions impose order on the chaos of their lives. Now Peterson delivers more lifesaving principles for resisting the exhausting toll that our desire to order the world inevitably takes. In offering strategies for overcoming the cultural, scientific, and psychological forces causing us to tend toward tyranny, he teaches us how to rely instead on our instinct to find meaning and purpose, even when we find ourselves powerless.