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S1E13 What shall i do with my newfound pen of light?
Coda WHAT SHALL I DO WITH MY NEWFOUND PEN OF LIGHT? In late 2016 I travelled to northern California to meet a friend and business associate. We spent an evening together thinking and talking. At one…
S1E13 Pet a Cat When You Encounter
RULE 12 PET A CAT WHEN YOU ENCOUNTER ONE ON THE STREET DOGS ARE OK TOO I am going to start this chapter by stating directly that I own a dog, an American Eskimo, one of the many variants of the basic…
S1E12 Do Not Bother Children
RULE 11 DO NOT BOTHER CHILDREN WHEN THEY ARE SKATEBOARDING DANGER AND MASTERY There was a time when kids skateboarded on the west side of Sidney Smith Hall, at the University of Toronto, where I…
S1E11 Be precise in your speech
RULE 10 BE PRECISE IN YOUR SPEECH WHY IS MY LAPTOP OBSOLETE? What do you see, when you look at a computer—at your own laptop, more precisely? You see a flat, thin, grey-and-black box. Less evidently,…
S1E10 Assume that the Person
RULE 9 ASSUME THAT THE PERSON YOU ARE LISTENING TO MIGHT KNOW SOMETHING YOU DON’T NOT ADVICE Psychotherapy is not advice. Advice is what you get when the person you’re talking with about something…
S1E9 Tell the truth—or at least, don't lie
RULE 8 TELL THE TRUTH—OR, AT LEAST, DON’T LIE TRUTH IN NO-MAN’S-LAND I trained to become a clinical psychologist at McGill University, in Montreal. While doing so, I sometimes met my classmates on…
S1E8 Pursue What Is Meaningful
RULE 7 PURSUE WHAT IS MEANINGFUL (NOT WHAT IS EXPEDIENT) GET WHILE THE GETTING’S GOOD Life is suffering. That’s clear. There is no more basic, irrefutable truth. It’s basically what God tells Adam…
S1E7 Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world
RULE 6 SET YOUR HOUSE IN PERFECT ORDER BEFORE YOU CRITICIZE THE WORLD A RELIGIOUS PROBLEM It does not seem reasonable to describe the young man who shot twenty children and six staff members at Sandy…
S1E6 Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them
RULE 5 DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN DO ANYTHING THAT MAKES YOU DISLIKE THEM ACTUALLY, IT’S NOT OK Recently, I watched a three-year-old boy trail his mother and father slowly through a crowded airport. He…
S1E5 Compare Yourself To Who You Were Yesterday, Not To Who Someone Else is Today
RULE 4 COMPARE YOURSELF TO WHO YOU WERE YESTERDAY, NOT TO WHO SOMEONE ELSE IS TODAY THE INTERNAL CRITIC It was easier for people to be good at something when more of us lived in small,…
S1E4 Make Friends With People Who Want The Best For You
RULE 3 MAKE FRIENDS WITH PEOPLE WHO WANT THE BEST FOR YOU THE OLD HOMETOWN
S1E3 Treat yourself like someone you are responsibility for helping
RULE 2 TREAT YOURSELF LIKE SOMEONE YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HELPING WHY WON’T YOU JUST TAKE YOUR DAMN PILLS? Imagine that a hundred people are prescribed a drug. Consider what happens next. One- third…
S1E2 Stand Up Straight With Your Shoulders Back
RULE 1 STAND UP STRAIGHT WITH YOUR SHOULDERS BACK LOBSTERS—AND TERRITORY If you are like most people, you don’t often think about lobsters 2—unless you’re eating one. However, these interesting and…
S1 Overture
Overture This book has a short history and a long history. We’ll begin with the short history. In 2012, I started contributing to a website called Quora. On Quora, anyone can ask a question, of any…
S1E1 Foreword
12 Rules for Life in English ( Introduction )
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