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Maps of Meaning

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Maps of Meaning

By: Jordan B. Peterson
Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson
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 Jordan B. Peterson's Maps of Meaning is now available for the first time as an audio download!

Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? From the author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos comes a provocative hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, myths, and religious stories have long narrated. A cutting-edge work that brings together neuropsychology, cognitive science, and Freudian and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative, Maps of Meaning presents a rich theory that makes the wisdom and meaning of myth accessible to the critical modern mind.

Includes a PDF of Images from the Book. Anthropology Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Mythology Inspiring Thought-Provoking Morality Organisational Design

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i recommend this book to anyone and everyone. essential reading, concisely laid out, powerful, meaningful, accutely relevant.

fundamental

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really comprehensive and accomplished work, I got a lot from this, if there's bits you don't get just enjoy how much Dr P Is into it, I'll listen to this again and I wouldn't normally do that with an audiobook, very helpful and insightful book, I loved it

heavy but worth the trip

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You probably noticed that i gave Jordan Peterson a 4 out of 5 for performance. It can be a 5 out 5 if you follow my instructions. That’s because he failed to appreciate the complexity if his syntax for a listening audience. Sometimes, he sounds as if he’s giving a dissertation more than an oratory experience. You must get past this. Understand that I am grateful to him for this wonderful work of scholarship. But I encourage you to rewind every time he gets too complicated. Look at it as the thrill and challenge of learning a new language. I must read the book and ‘magic marker’ vast swathes of the text because I can only connect with the arguments presented that much more meaningfully, and rationally. Maps of Meaning should be your project, not a passing intellectual indulgence. As is typical with Audible, the announcement of a chapter, when they bother to announce a chapter, is out of sync with the actual chapter. So be it. My last tip to readers is that you listen to it in half hour chunks and that same chunk twice per day. This work demands, and it is worthy of, your complete attention. Getting through it will give new knowledge and strengthen pre-established knowledge. I wish you all well.

Important - a must listen and read

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Being raised in a Christian family, I was struggling to find a meaning in my life, after I decided to leave church. I had lost the faith in meaning it's self. This book help me regain my faith in meaning as such and provide me with the tools to create my own meaning.

This book gave me meaning again

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though the book contains many great ideas, it is written dryly, as coarse as sand.
the book is essentially a long repetition of the same idea with different explanations as for why the idea is valid educationally. Many of the sources are antiquated and somewhat failing in a modern worldview.

the principles of the book, however, are very interesting and create a basis on how we may have infused meaning to actions and objects, as well as how we have derived meaning and sense.

Extremely dry

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