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12 Rules for Life was mostly good, it definitely helped me with some things. I liked his earlier podcasts on JRE and other shows.

However, I couldn't get through Beyond Order at all; I had to drop it fairly early. I think I still like the Peterson from 5-ish years ago. How he currently is, and how he has _mostly_ been for the past 2 years or so does not align with me anymore.

Can’t help but feel like something happened to him during the rehab years. It is miraculous he came through, but he seems very different.

Might be the fame, aging, the need to build an audience, or the rehab process. Who knows.

I'm 100% with you on that. I've never heard meaningful or valid criticism of him. It's all lazy hand wavy utterances that indicate all of his critics never listen to him for more than 20 mins.

Yes, not to mention his (completely free) lecture series on the Bible, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn.... an incredibly scholar he is.