Hard but not inpenetrable.

Hard to get into but rewarding in the end. Could listen to JBP talk indefinitely.

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Important - a must listen and read

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.

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Fantastic book by one of today's great minds

Jordan Peterson transcends the thoughts, opinions and feelings with truthful and philosophical facts, which will empower you to aim higher. Highly recommend!

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Obvious contradictions, but meaningful nonetheless

The author takes into consideration an imperfect understanding and potential for more to be known

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Amazing, complicated but well worth it

There are some aspects of JBP writing I’m not intelligent enough to fully understand and this book is certainly very complicated but so much of it makes for a fascinating debate around the meaning of life. Thoroughly enjoyed this and has made me examine my own self, my religious beliefs and non beliefs more to the point and how the world and we within it can look to balance. If you find it a tough read please stick with it as it comes together in conclusion

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A challenging but brilliant and worth while read

I bought the physical copy as well and read along with Jordan as this content is so difficult sometimes to follow - audio only I found impossible. It’s a difficult book (it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever read, every sentence so dense) it also really help keep me engaged and managed my reading tempo. Highly recommend this book - it took him 14 years to write and you can tell! It’s an extraordinary work.

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Interesting but hard to follow and intense

I think this is one of those books that you have to come back to in life as there's some much to take in , I must say what I wouldn't do for that man's vocabulary I spent a lot of time with the dictionary so far great non the less

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Many answers to the problems of life are presented hear

This book is life changing in its scope and spiritual depth. It could potentially change humanity for the better. As someone who was somewhat lost on the path of faith it has refreshed and refocused ideas in a new light. To atheists it should be of particular interest. Any one who cares about how to avoid malevolence and find meaning in there life should read this book. Thank your Jordan for this book and the lessons within it.

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Insightful to the point of prophetic

As an amateur philosopher, I have had occasion to read Nietzsche and Kirkegaard, and have long pondered the problem of value, and the problem of evil. For all my study, I have never come across quite so comprehensive a response to these problems, as I found in this book (also nicely summarized in chapters 8, 9 and 10 of Petersons new book). Though his answer is not definitive, it is thorough and authoritative, covering areas of study as diverse as clinical psychology, folk wisdom, analytical and continental philosophy, dream analysis, neuropsychology, anthropology, and of course religion. It took me nearly two months to finish this book, and it was well worth the slog. I have a dramatically deeper appreciation for the mytho-poetic view of life, an improved awareness of the significance of symbolic interpretation of phenomenal experience, and even a new way to look at Jamesian Pragmatism. If Catholic priests and lay-teachers were as adept at explaining the significance of Catholic doctrine and myth, as Peterson is of explication of the Augustinian view, I might still be a Catholic (albeit, agnostic). If you can summon the will to read this book, please do yourself and the world a favor, and do it.

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Important during this time

Needed to concentrate and stop from time to time to understand the deep meaning of this ideas. Strongly recommended.

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