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Peterson, 12 Rules for Life (2018) — The Twelve Rules

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JBP-001 · Peterson, 12 Rules for Life (2018) — The Twelve Rules

S789 Make your physical bearing a signal of directed authority.

S790 The standard that governs how you treat others is functionally the same standard that governs how you treat yourself.

S791 Deliberately form bonds with people whose will is directed toward your benefit.

S792 Compare yourself along the temporal axis — against who you were — not along the social axis against who another person is today.

S793 Shape your children's behavior toward what is good, because the kinship bond has a structural requirement.

S794 Order your immediate domain first; then you may make epistemic judgments about the wider world.

S795 Pursue what increases in value over time, not what offers the fastest path to an outcome.

S796 Signal truth — or if the ideal is not fully achievable, at minimum: I will not deliberately lie.

S797 Operate with the model that your interlocutor may hold knowledge you do not have.

S798 Make your signal carry precise and particular thought.

S799 Children need increasing encounters with risk because directed capacity grows from it.

S800 Amid growing suffering, perceive the individual moment of positive affect.

Batch Summary

S# Rule Core claim Structural notes
S789 1: Stand up straight ka zo-ma-su ne si lo-wi-ra zo-ma-su first use; posture = power signal
S790 2: Self-obligation wi-fe lo-[ka lo-mi] helm wi-fe lo-[ka lo-ze] helm bilateral self/other obligation first use
S791 3: Right friends ka-be-ne lo-li [wi-vo lo-mi] W218 in social selection; active choice
S792 4: Compare to yesterday ka nu-be [zo-li-mi ti-de] / no [zo-li-ze ti-mi] Temporal vs social comparison axis via /
S793 5: Children and bond ka lo-li-be-mi ne vo go {zo-ne ne-fe su} Kinship bond as structural imperative
S794 6: Order your domain ka pa-mi-su ; ti-be to-fe lo-a-ne-su pa-mi-su first use; ; normative sequence
S795 7: Meaningful vs expedient ka lo-vo-be / no lo-du-ki vo-be / du-ki first uses; temporal orientation
S796 8: Tell the truth si-ki to-ne-su / ke, no [la-mi ka-si-no] First ke, inside /; two-level commitment
S797 9: Epistemic humility ka to [la-ze to lo-no-to-mi] Assumption as deliberate ka act
S798 10: Precise speech ka si-mi ne i-to i- in morphological-command role (first)
S799 11: Children need risk li-be ne-fe fa-ra-be go {wi-ra be} fa-ra-be first use; risk as requirement
S800 12: Pet the cat fa-de-ra be / se fa-vo lo-ru / as co-presence (third distinct / function)

New W-entries: none (all vocabulary compositional from registered forms).

Compositional first uses: zo-ma-su (posture, S789); pa-mi-su (immediate domain structure, S794); vo-be (growing value/meaningful, S795); du-ki (expedient/result-motion, S795); i-to (precise-thought, S798); fa-ra-be (growing risk-affect, S799).


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