जॉर्डन पीटरसन Jordan B. Peterson
जॉर्डन पीटरसन Jordan B. Peterson
Jordan Bernt Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. He taught at Harvard and Toronto for two decades and wrote Maps of Meaning before his 2016 videos on Bill C-16 made him a public figure. His 12 Rules for Life became a global bestseller and he now reaches his audience through books, lectures, his podcast and the organisations he has co-founded.
Curated by Nikhil Sharma: the psychologist who turned personal responsibility into a global conversation. Worth reading closely by anyone building a life or a company.
- 10M+ Copies of 12 Rules for Life: Over 10 million worldwide by May 2023, per Penguin sales data cited on Wikipedia.
- 100+ Scientific papers: With students and co-authors, on alcoholism, aggression, creativity and personality.
- 2016 The year he became a public figure: His September videos on Bill C-16 and political correctness.
- 20 Years teaching at Harvard and Toronto: He became professor emeritus at Toronto before turning sixty.
The facts
- Born
- 12 June 1962, Edmonton, Alberta. Raised in Fairview, Alberta (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
- Education
- BA in political science (1982) and BA in psychology (1984), University of Alberta. PhD in clinical psychology, McGill University (1991), supervised by Robert O. Pihl (Wikipedia)
- Harvard
- Assistant professor of psychology from July 1993 (Wikipedia)
- Toronto
- Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto from 1998. Now professor emeritus (Wikipedia)
- Clinical work
- Kept a clinical and consulting practice alongside teaching. Put it on hold in 2017 (Wikipedia)
- Books
- Maps of Meaning (1999), 12 Rules for Life (2018), Beyond Order (2021), We Who Wrestle with God (2024) (Wikipedia)
- Podcast
- The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, started December 2016. About 400 episodes and over 150 million downloads, by his own site’s count (jordanbpeterson.com, About)
- Ventures
- Self Authoring Suite and UnderstandMyself (with Daniel Higgins and Robert Pihl). Peterson Academy (2024, with Mikhaila Fuller). Co-founder of ARC (2023) (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
- Family
- Married Tammy Roberts in 1989. Two children, Mikhaila and Julian (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
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