Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to 12 Rules for Life
An Antidote to Chaos
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. 12 Rules for Life launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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by Jordan B. Peterson
2018 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Ancient wisdom paired with modern science
2016 · happinesshypothesis.com · its alternatives →
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Life Note▲467I'm excited to share Life Note with you. I'm the maker and have spent the last seven months working on it. Inspired by Tim Urban's Life Calendar idea, I wanted to create something to help people make better life decisions at pivotal moments. After a few pivots, our users' favorite feature turned out to be journaling with AI Mentors, leading to the creation of "1,000 Great Minds." I've experimented extensively with prompt engineering to make AI Mentors' responses personal and valuable through techniques like chain prompting, conditional prompting, and personalized prompting. I believe it's…
2024 · mylifenote.ai · its alternatives →
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Land of Meaning▲113An interactive visual guide of Jordan Peterson's lectures
2020 · fbresciano.com · its alternatives →
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How strong are you really?
2016 · vtpfilms.in · its alternatives →
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Why are some people so quick to recover from setbacks?
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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24 Ancient Techniques for Creating an Invincible Mind
2016 · pocketstoic.com · its alternatives →
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How to solve all of life's Impossible problems
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Chaos, complexity and the emergence of life
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Who helped conquer the worst disease in history
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Brain Rules▲6912 principles for surviving and thriving at work
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Constraints allow us to think and invent. Embrace them!
2017 · simplecast.com · its alternatives →
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The hidden beauty and logic of the world
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! My name's Robert Escriva. I got my PhD from Cornell's Computer Science department back in 2017. And three years ago I had a psychotic episode that irreversibly shook up my world. Since then I've been applying a skill I learned in grad school---namely, debugging distributed and complex systems---to my own mind. What I've found I've put into a [book (pdf)](https://rescrv.net/engineering-schizophrenia.pdf) on engineering, my particular schizophrenic delusions, and how people who suffer as I once did can find a way through the fog to the other side. This is not a healing…
Jan 2026 · its alternatives →
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Our minds don’t work the way we think they do.
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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What is reality? Who are “you”? How do you make decisions?
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The science behind creative insights.
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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What If?▲107Serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions
2015 · whatif.xkcd.com · its alternatives →
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Difficult conversation made easy
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Does the universe embody beautiful ideas?
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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