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12 Rules for LifeBook

by Jordan Peterson, 2018

Who uses, recommends or left 12 Rules for Life, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Derek Sivers
Author, programmer, musician. Founder of CD Baby. Publishes rated notes on every book he reads.
liked

A unique thinker with strong opinions presented as indisputable fact. More surprisingly interesting ideas than almost any book I've ever read. Extremely thoughtful, but occasionally abruptly concludes with an unsupported point. It has a conservative “this is how it is” certainty. It’s a broad collection of thoughtful insights on life, mixed with a lot of Bible interpretation.

Rated 9/10 on his public book-notes list.

2018-04-10·sive.rs ↗

Rakhim Davletkaliyev
Programmer and educator. Keeps a public bookshelf with a short comment on every book.
read

One of the most important books for me as far as non-fiction goes. Philosophy, religion and psychology under the mask of a self-help book.

On his public bookshelf, with his comment.

2026-08-16·rakhim.org ↗

Naval Ravikant
Angel investor and co-founder of AngelList; writes and podcasts at nav.al.
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Vasishta Yoga, The Book of Nothing, Math (Better Explained), Skin in the Game, 12 Rules for Life, The Path to Love, Faraday Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field, Direct Truth, The Gay Science, Permutation City, The Order of a Time, and many, many others.

Replying on X to “What are you reading right now?” — a list of what was on his pile, with no verdict attached.

2018-08-14·x.com ↗

What they also use

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.