Who are you? And, more importantly, who could you be, if you were everything you could conceivably be?.What supersedes that obedience is not so obvious that it can be easily articulated, but it is something like “Follow rules except when doing so undermines the purpose of those selfsame rules-in which case take the risk of acting in a manner contrary to what has been agreed upon as moral.”.It is not unlike the pleasure taken in raising children, and it is one of the primary motivators of valid ambition.

There is great intrinsic pleasure in helping already competent and admirable young people become highly skilled, socially valuable, autonomous, responsible professionals.

This constraint manifests itself when the authoritative agent cares, and takes responsibility, for those over whom the exertion of power is possible.

Genuine authority constrains the arbitrary exercise of power.

To maintain good relationships with your colleagues means, among other things, to give credit where credit is due to take your fair share of the jobs no one wants but still must be done to deliver on time and in a high-quality manner when teamed with other people to show up when expected and, in general, to be trusted to do somewhat more than your job formally requires.

No one unwilling to be a foolish beginner can learn.

Humility: It is better to presume ignorance and invite learning than to assume sufficient knowledge and risk the consequent blindness.

If you are not communicating about anything that engages other people, then the value of your communication-even the value of your very presence-risks falling to zero.

We need to keep one foot within order while stretching the other tentatively into the beyond.

Peterson can be a divisive character and I don't agree with everything he says, however, I believe it is important to focus on the message more than the messenger. Peterson's most recent book 'Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life'. Below is a selection of my favourite passages from Jordan B.

12 more rules of life