Jordan Peterson is a modern Mark Twain or Charles Dickens.
You might think of him as the bestselling author of The 12 Rules for Life or as the controversial opponent of speech-control laws in Canada or as the YouTube sensation who has challenged us all to buck up and take responsibility for what we do with our lives. He is all that and he is also an original thinker who blends psychology, philosophy, and spiritual texts in order to face up to the challenges of modernity.
But his real power comes from storytelling. And like Twain and Dickens, he has brought this power to the lecture circuit. I was lucky enough to see him in a recent appearance in Connecticut.
