JORDAN B. PETERSON, raised and toughened in the frigid wastelands of Northern Alberta, has flown a hammer-head roll in a carbon-fiber stunt-plane, explored an Arizona meteorite crater with astronauts, and built a Kwagu'l ceremonial bighouse on the upper floor of his Toronto home after being invited into and named by that Canadian First Nation. He's taught mythology to lawyers, doctors and business people, consulted for the UN Secretary General, helped his clinical clients manage depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, and schizophrenia, served as an adviser to senior partners of major Canadian law firms, and lectured extensively in North America and Europe. With his students and colleagues at Harvard and the University of Toronto, Dr. Peterson has published over a hundred scientific papers, transforming the modern understanding of personality, while his book Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief revolutionized the psychology of religion. The author lives in Toronto, ON. www.jordanbpeterson.com
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“Jordan Peterson, has become one of the best-known Canadians of
this generation. In the intellectual category, he’s easily the
largest international phenomenon since Marshall McLuhan. . . . By
combining knowledge of the past with a full-hearted optimism and a
generous attitude toward his readers and listeners, Peterson
generates an impressive level of intellectual firepower.” —Robert
Fulford, National Post
“Like the best intellectual polymaths, Peterson invites his readers
to embark on their own intellectual, spiritual and ideological
journeys into the many topics and disciplines he touches on. It’s a
counter-intuitive strategy for a population hooked on the instant
gratification of ideological conformity and social media ‘likes,’
but if Peterson is right, you have nothing to lose but your own
misery.” —Toronto Star
“In a different intellectual league. . . . Peterson can take the
most difficult ideas and make them entertaining. This may be why
his YouTube videos have had 35 million views. He is fast
becoming the closest that academia has to a rock star.” —The
Observer
“Grow up and man up is the message from this rock-star
psychologist. . . . [A] hardline self-help manual of self-reliance,
good behaviour, self-betterment and individualism that probably
reflects his childhood in rural Canada in the 1960s. As with all
self-help manuals, there’s always a kernel of truth. Formerly a
Harvard professor, now at the University of Toronto, Peterson
retains that whiff of cowboy philosophy—one essay is a homily on
doing one thing every day to improve yourself. Another, on bringing
up little children to behave, is excellent…. [Peterson] twirls
ideas around like a magician.” —Melanie Reid, The Times
“You don’t have to agree with [Peterson’s politics] to like this
book for, once you discard the self-help label, it becomes
fascinating. Peterson is brilliant on many subjects. . . . So what
we have here is a baggy, aggressive, in-your-face, get-real book
that, ultimately, is an attempt to lead us back to what Peterson
sees as the true, the beautiful and the good—i.e. God. In the
highest possible sense of the term, I suppose it is a self-help
book. . . . Either way, it’s a rocky read, but nobody ever said God
was easy.” —Bryan Appleyard, The Times
“One of the most eclectic and stimulating public
intellectuals at large today, fearless and impassioned.” —The
Guardian
“Someone with not only humanity and humour, but serious depth and
substance. . . . Peterson has a truly cosmopolitan and
omnivorous intellect, but one that recognizes that things need
grounding in a home if they are ever going to be meaningfully
grasped. . . . As well as being funny, there is a burning sincerity
to the man which only the most withered cynic could suspect.” —The
Spectator
“Peterson has become a kind of secular prophet who, in an era of
lobotomized conformism, thinks out of the box. . . . His
message is overwhelmingly vital.” —Melanie Philips, The
Times
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