12 Rules for Life In English

12 Rules for Life In English

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12 Rules for Life In English episodes

  • 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 pointhe took a pen
    from his
    jacket and took a few notes.
    22 min
  • 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 spitz type.
    17 min
  • 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 work. Sometimes I stood there and watched
    them. There
    are rough, wide, shallow concrete steps there, leading up from the street to
    the front
    entrance, accompanied by tubular iron handrails, about two and a half
    inches in diameter
    and twenty feet long. The crazy kids, almost always boys, would pull back
    about fifteen
    yards from the top of the steps.
    19 min
  • 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, you see something to
    type on and look
    at. Nonetheless, even with the second perceptions included,what are you
    seeing is hardly
    the computer at all. That grey and black box happens to be a computer
    right now, right
    here and now, and maybe even an expensive computer.
    17 min
  • 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 horrible and complicated wishes you would just shut up
    and go away.
    Advice is what you get when the person you are talking to wants to revel in
    the
    superiority of his or her own intelligence.
    14 min
  • 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 the grounds of Montreal’s Douglas
    Hospital,
    where we had our first direct experiences with the mentally ill.
    21 min
  • 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 and Eve, immediately before he kicks them out of Paradise.
    Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy
    conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth
    children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over
    thee.
    22 min
  • 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 Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut,
    in 2012 as a
    religious person. This is equally true for the Colorado theatre gunman and
    the Columbine
    High School killers.
    14 min
  • 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 was screaming violently at five-second intervals—and,
    more
    important, he was doing it voluntarily. He wasn’t at the end of this tether.
    13 min
  • 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, rural
    communities. Someone could be homecoming queen. Someone else could
    be spelling-bee
    champ, math whiz or basketball star. There were only one or two
    mechanics and a couple
    of teachers. In each of their domains, these local heroes had the
    opportunity to enjoy the
    serotonin-fuelled confidence of the victor. It may be for that reason that
    people who were
    born in small towns are statistically overrepresented among the eminent.
    19 min

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