On Page 285 of his book, 12 RULES FOR LIFE AN ANTIDOTE TO CHAOS, Jordan Peterson shares his Rule 11: "Do not bother children when they are skate boarding."
Jordan seems to be advising adults not to make life too easy, too sheltered for children turning them into college kids, snowflakes requiring, safe spaces and bowdlerized speech.
Here is what Jordan writes on Page 287: "Thus, if things are made too safe, people (including children) start to figure out ways to make them dangerous again.
When untrammeled--and encouraged--we prefer to live on the ledge. There, we can still be confident in our experience and confronting the chaos that helps us develop. We're hardwired, for that reason, to enjoy risk (some of us more than others) . . . . Overprotected, we will fail when something dangerous, unexpected and full of opportunity suddenly makes its appearance, as it inevitably will."
We need some chaos and danger in our lives to stay strong and alert, and enough order so that structure provides meaning and continuity to build our identities around.
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