12 Rules for Life (Full) ENGLISH

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suffering than with happiness. This is part of the long history of the present work. From 1985 until 1999 I worked for about thr ...

things and the destination of the dead (as nature, as opposed to culture, is simultaneously birth and demise). Order and chaos a ...

She suggested that I write a guide of sorts to what a person needs “to live well”—whatever that might mean. I thought immediatel ...

It isn’t precisely that people will fight for what they believe. They will fight, instead, to maintain the match between what th ...

diamantine rock and the hardest of places: loss of group-centred belief renders life chaotic, miserable, intolerable; presence o ...

looked at the foot of the bed. I saw the great cathedral doors. I shook myself completely awake and they disappeared. My dream p ...

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RULE 1 STAND UP STRAIGHT WITH YOUR SHOULDERS BACK LOBSTERS—AND TERRITORY If you are like most people, you don’t often think abou ...

and attractive to potential mates. He also wants to convince competitors for that space to keep their distance. Birds—and Territ ...

underwater, and are seldom served with butter. However, they are also similar in important ways. Both are obsessed with status a ...

interaction can easily degenerate into outright physical combat. Under such circumstances, one bird, usually the largest, will e ...

territory. They are scarce and valuable. Other lobsters continually seek them out. This means that lobsters often encounter one ...

exposed and vulnerable. Once a body part has been successfully grabbed, the grabber will tail-flick backwards, sharply, with cla ...

neurochemical configuration, a high ratio of octopamine to serotonin, produces a defeated-looking, scrunched-up, inhibited, droo ...

This principle is sometimes known as Price’s law, after Derek J. de Solla Price,^13 the researcher who discovered its applicatio ...

of the dominance hierarchy. They let the males fight it out and peel their paramours from the top. This is very much what happen ...

this point another female will attempt the same thing—and so on. The dominant male, with his upright and confident posture, not ...