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This reads as much like a modern historical analysis as a lit crit text....

Getting close to giving up on this. "Jordan Peterson rationalizes Jordan Peterson to Jordan Peterson" would be a better subtitle to this one, and that would be fine if he were actually an interesting guy and the writing weren't so tiresome. But he's not. Lots of self-serving misrepresentations of philosophy and psychology (along with the occasional other discipline) in this thing.

This is kind of an odd combination of disparate myths and short, light histories. So, one chapter will feature mermaids, the next a historical figure and more or less his/er actual historical role, the right back to a magical cave. It makes for a rather odd anthology. Maybe useful as a reference or for inspiration, though....

Not finding a lot to like in this one. Lots of shoddy representations of cherry-picked ideas mish-mashed together into an elaborate post hoc assumptions masquerading as a philosophical tract. I haven't gone more than a page or two without finding something dubious or outright fallacious. Vaguely interesting as a critical thinking exercise so far (as in, find the bad reasoning!) but that's getting old fast.

The weirdest thing about this book is that Adams seems to have no sense that the mental issues he describes (cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias, etc.) so aptly apply to the examples he makes in defending his support of Trump. It's almost like he can't see his own reflection in the mirror. His examples are often so far disconnected from his points as to border on the nonsensical.

I'm reading this the way, I imagine, a lot of folks read a book of prayers, doling it out to myself in little daily (or so...) tidbits. I guess that makes Berger something of a saint in my hagiography.

The weird thing about this book (so far) is that Adams appears to have no sense whatever that the things he's describing apply perfectly to his own rationalizations of his behavior and shoddy reasoning. As a book on the methods of influencing people, I dno't think this is a bad primer, but the amount author of self-insertion is... distracting.

Reading this book is like going through an autopsy report... on your own corpse.

Welp... this is depressing.