12 Rules for Life by Peterson Jordan B Book Review 12 Rules for Life by Peterson Jordan B the book is entitled twelve rules for life and that in itself gives you the hint that this is a sort of self-development book or a book that will better you inspire you all those sort of things while the book does have a lot of those aspects it's also way more complex each chapter is one of these twelve lessons and so he'll start with the rule of the chapter twelve rules for life remember what we end up doing is going on a journey okay I mean that it's a journey okay so you start out with this main point you take a path you take a path away from it then you take a path off of that path and a path you end up somewhere completely different at times I really felt that way where he's a superfluous speaker he's a superfluous writer as well so it wasn't anything that really surprised me I kind of half expected it going in now that's something that generally frustrates