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too long and too incoherent
The more I read of this book the more disappointed I get. The book is to a bad version of Jonathan Haidt's Happiness Hypothesis. A book that weaves religion, philosophy, psychology and science together as well. However, unlike Haidt's book Peterson's book is too long for what it is and far too incoherent. If this book went through editing I shudder to think how much was thinned out to bring it to the current page count.
I will add that this book (as any book will do) seems to pick and choose parts of the science that support preconceived gender and family roles to then buttress the rules. For example describing order as male and chaos as female. It is unnecessary and ultimately unsubstantiated by any of the voluminous footnotes.
Perhaps his lectures are more engaging, but skip this book.
February 2018 · Kindle Store · verified purchase