“Treat Yourself Like Someone You Are Responsible for Helping” — Rule 2
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos — Jordan B. Peterson.
“12 Rules for Life: An antidote to chaos” by Jordan Peterson is a complex read. The rules may sound simple, but the way this Canadian clinical psychologist has defined these life essays is grueling yet interesting.
Rule 4 is my favorite (Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today), but that doesn’t stop me from going back to this book for the other ones. And that’s why I want to explore them one by one.
Rule 2: Treat Yourself Like Someone You Are Responsible for Helping.
“People are better at filling and properly administering prescription medication to their pets than to themselves.”
That’s what Jordan Peterson had to conclude after asking the reader — Why don’t you just take your damn pills?
Self-doubt
That’s our second nature. So whether it’s a professional or personal life, the winds of self-doubt flow hard and fast.
The good part is that it allows you to mend your actions, but the flip side is that self-doubt leads to starvation of creativity and progress.
