Book Review: 12 Rules for Life - Dr. Jordan Peterson, Part 1

Are you striving to advance your career, but find yourself stuck in a rut? 

Join us this week as the Old Jarhead imparts wisdom rooted in his extensive career experiences. We embark on an exciting exploration of Dr. Jordan Peterson's enlightening book "Twelve Rules for Life", focusing especially on the rule - ensuring your life is in order before criticizing others. The Old Jarhead, with his charming candor, guides us through the challenges of implementing this advice, using real-life examples from workplace scenarios and personal self-improvement.

Our conversation expands on the significance of self-reflection and gradual improvements in shaping us into better individuals and professionals. You will learn to identify your weaknesses, fine-tune your performance and build a positive reputation in a step-by-step manner. We also delve into how the consistent practice of making small, incremental improvements can lead to substantial growth over time. Tune in to learn from the Old Jarhead, take the first step towards elevating your career, and step into a more rewarding life. It's time to stop criticizing others and start working on self-improvement for a more fulfilling career and personal life!

Transcript

All right, folks, I'm the old jar head, and I'm back to give you great advice. I guarantee it. The advice I give you will help your career. It's based on my two past careers, my current career, and it's all good stuff. Let's get going on this craziness here. So it's a book review, and the book I am going to review, at least a part of that book, is The Twelve Rules for Life by Dr. Jordan Peterson. This is a great book and one that I highly recommend. It's one of the few books that I've read twice because there was so much to get out of it that I needed a second reading. Right. That's one of the reasons that I picked it. Who is Dr. Peterson? I think he's probably the world's leading intellectual. He's a guy that I would love to sit down and chat with him, but I would also not love to do it because I'm not even intellectually in this guy's ballpark. I'm going to focus on one piece of advice that he gives and that I think we can all benefit from. And he's given us advice not only in his book, but in his other products as well. And that is basically, it comes down to get your own act together before you set out to criticize others. Simple as that. Get your own act together before you set out to criticize others. People rarely do it, though, right? Whether it's in your personal or professional life, it's good advice. For example, at work there's almost always that one person who constantly has some gripe or criticism of someone else, or the way the company is run, or management. They don't like their boss. They're always getting picked on according to them. And they themselves typically are about as screwed up as they can be and why they can constantly want to pick on other people. That's a weakness of theirs. Okay, maybe management is screwed up, and if management wasn't screwed up, they'd probably fire this person by now. But that doesn't stop them from constantly harping about how screwed up other people are. Do you know someone like that? Probably. More importantly, are you like that? In either case, the advice that the good doc Dr. Peterson gives is really worth listening to. Basically, he says, get yourself squared away before you start trying to square away. Okay? Think about that for a second before you sit there and criticize what somebody else should be doing. Do you have your act together? So would you rather be known as the person who does not complain but has their act together, or the screwball who is constantly talking trash about others? Which reputation would you rather have? Is it easy to get your act together? For some, yeah. So they usually have their acts together, but for others it's more difficult, whether it's because of the way they were raised or whatever. But they have a harder time, and it makes it more important that they get themselves together. But if you recognize that bad trait in yourself, how do you correct it? The simple answer and straightforward answer is a little bit at a time, think about one thing in your professional life that should be better and work on correcting that, even if it's something small, right? Think of the one thing that you could be doing better and correct it. Once you've done that, go on to the next one, the next thing that you think needs to be corrected. And then the next one. And then maybe even take a bigger aspect of your career that is screwed up and work on fixing that. It's similar to my daily three in that making small improvements constantly over time results in some pretty spectacular improvements overall. So if this pertains to you, and I, think of this pertains, the piece of this pertains to all of us, okay, don't hide this weekend, this weakness, but rather start today to fix it. And I think you'll be very satisfied on how things turned out. And I also think that your coworkers and your boss will notice this as well. You're on a path to a better career. What better advice could the old jar Dead give you than one that's going to put you on a path to a better career? That's enough of my rambling for now. Thanks for listening. Tell your friends. And hey, listen, don't be the last one of your peers to read my book. Find a job that fits your life. Thank you. Bye.