If I may quote myself from the latest book thread: Peterson wrote, basically, a book-length Hallmark card. If it sounds true enough, people will find meaning in it.12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson. No, I did not read this because of the lobster thing, mostly because I didn't even know that was a thing until today. I did find that a weird and unconvincing part, but that doesn't really matter in the context of the book itself. It reads, and should be read, entirely as a long Sunday sermon buy a pastor who goes on unscientific tangents every now and then. Meaning, science and I disagree with most of what he says, but there are pieces of advice in there that are just what some people need at some moment in their life, which is what redeems it. I would not recommend the book, but might send some passages to people some day.
On a lobster related note, my grandfather would occasionally lament that my family would act like lobsters in a bucket. According to him, many trapped lobsters in a bucket work competitively and keep every single lobster in the bucket. Many would be able to escape, if only they would operate in a cooperative manner. One lobster crawls upright, another crawls over it's back, and so on making a bridge so that all but two or three crawl to safety. Instead though, the lobsters tend to pull one another back from the success of crawling out and not one ever leaves the bucket. My family has definitely been stuck in several buckets before.
