{"id":1281,"date":"2019-09-18T19:43:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T23:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2020-01-15T16:23:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T20:23:59","slug":"treat-yourself-like-someone-you-are-responsible-for-helping-jordan-peterson-rule-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/treat-yourself-like-someone-you-are-responsible-for-helping-jordan-peterson-rule-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rule 2: Treat Yourself Like Someone You Are Responsible For Helping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 12 Rules for Life, Rule #2 is &#8220;Treat Yourself Like Someone You Are Responsible for Helping.&#8221; What does this mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why would you not treat yourself like you&#8217;re helping yourself? Why do you treat other people better? 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No one else has more reason to see you as pathetic. <strong>By withholding something that does you good, you punish yourself for your failings<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do we hate ourselves?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>He uses the Biblical story of Adam and Eve as the origination of seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/good-versus-evil\/\">good and evil<\/a>, and how this original sin carries into us today. After their fall from heaven, they are naked, ugly, ashamed, resentful &#8211; why would anyone care for a descendant of Adam and Eve?<\/li><li>Also, we know that humans have great capacity for evil, as evidenced by historical atrocities. This increases loathing for mankind and self.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast, our pets and our children are faultless &#8211; they don\u2019t know any better, they\u2019re innocent, so they deserve all the help we can give.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to Treat Yourself Better<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Jordan Peterson&#8217;s Rule 2, the solution is to <strong>believe that you are worth helping. You have a vital mission in this world, you are important in this world to others, and you are morally obligated to take care of yourself.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are not your own possession to torture and mistreat, because your being is tied up with that of others. Therefore, mistreating yourself will harm others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow Rule 2: Treat Yourself Like Someone You Are Responsible for Helping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look at all the wonders and comforts of the modern world (electricity, running water, plentiful food), put together by people like you for the benefit of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You deserve sympathy for merely being alive and shouldering the burden of existence.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Jordan Peterson&#8217;s Rule 2, reject virtuous self-sacrifice &#8211; don\u2019t suffer silently when someone demands more from you than is offered in return. Then you are supporting tyranny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, see yourself like you see your pet or someone else. You don\u2019t see their faults, and you want to care for them. Treat yourself like the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Putting Rule 2 in Practice<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This means taking care of yourself, getting healthier (physically and mentally), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/expand-your-knowledge\/\">expanding your knowledge<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/pursue-your-goals\/\">pursuing goals<\/a> you want, articulating your principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>You must keep the promises you make to yourself<\/strong>.<\/li><li>Think &#8211; \u201c<strong>what might my life look like if I were caring for myself properly<\/strong>?\u201d<\/li><li>Having a vision for your life forces you through obstacles toward your goals. Nietzsche: \u201c<strong>He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><li>You know what your personal Hell is like. Decide against going there or creating that.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Minor points from Jordan Peterson&#8217;s Rule 2 in 12 Rules for Life:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In the past our cultural leaders were more concerned with survival than with objective truth, which is why they captured wisdom and subjective experience in stories.<\/li><li>Why are people ashamed of nakedness?&nbsp;<ul><li>This might be a cultural custom to protect our bodies from harm. Yet we get injured rarely these days &#8211; why does it persist?<\/li><li>It might also be to <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/21098\/why-are-people-ashamed-being-naked\">desist straying from your relationship<\/a>. There is more temptation when a person\u2019s body is exposed, and covering it up invites more stability.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So lighten up. 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