A child who can’t share—who can’t trade—can’t have any friends, because having friends is a form of trade.

Even the most brutal chimp despot can be taken down, after all, by two opponents, each three-quarters as mean. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).As part of the tour, Peterson had an interview on Channel 4 News that went viral, receiving considerable attention and over 36 million views on YouTube. More importantly, for our purposes, they do so to discover the true limits of permissible behaviour. Sometimes the attempt falls flat as when he deploys Harry Potter anecdotes, and can I just say that he got Peter Pan all wrong when he asserts that Peter’s problem is that Captain Hook is his role model. Set aside some time to talk and to think about the illness or other crisis and how it should be managed every day.

The other parts of the work explore and criticize the state of young men; the upbringing that ignores sex differences between boys and girls (criticism of over-protection and tabula rasa model in social sciences); male–female interpersonal relationships; school shootings; religion and moral nihilism; relativism; and lack of respect for the values that built Western society. In The Atlantic, Helen Lewis commented that Peterson's popularity is because of, not in spite of, "his contradictions and human frailties". Joe Humphreys of The Irish Times argued people shouldn't be stopped "from reading what is a veritable powerhouse of a book: wise, provocative, humorous and also maddeningly contradictory (as all deep and truthful studies of human nature must be)".He fudges this by talking about yin and yang, and “straddling dualities”, but if chaos is indeed the “possibility, growth and adventure” towards which he occasionally remembers to genuflect, it’s clear that he is mainly preoccupied with keeping it at bay. It’s a good idea to tell the person you are confronting exactly what you would like them to do instead of what they have done or currently are doing. The book, which took Peterson 13 years to complete, describes a comprehensive theory for how we construct meaning, represented by the mythical process of the exploratory hero, and provides an interpretation of religious and mythical models of reality presented in a way that is compatible with modern scientific understanding of how the brain works. In The Spectator, Peter Hitchens wrote that he did not like the book's "conversational and accessible" style and amount of "recapitulation", but believed it had "moving moments", "good advice" with a message "aimed at people who have grown up in the post-Christian West" with special appeal to young men. The same thing happens when well-meaning counsellors place a delinquent teen among comparatively civilized peers.

It is simultaneously the will to dare set your sights at the unachievable, and to sacrifice everything, including (and most importantly) your life. Lewis wrote: "he is one of notably few prominent figures willing to confront the most fundamental questions of existence . The number of young men who said the same thing declined 15 percent over the same period (from 35 to 29 percent).Given this, the fundamental moral question is not how to shelter children completely from misadventure and failure, so they never experience any fear or pain, but how to maximize their learning so that useful knowledge may be gained with minimal cost. Hari Kunzru of The Guardian said the book collates advice from Peterson's clinical practice with personal anecdotes, accounts of his academic work as a psychologist and "a lot of intellectual history of the ' great books' variety", but the essays on the rules are explained in an overcomplicated style. Chaos is “the eternal feminine”, a misty Jungian formulation that puts the author in the invidious position of promoting a how-to manual on suppressing the feminine principle.