12 Rules for Life (Full) ENGLISH

Rescuing the Damned People choose friends who aren’t good for them for other reasons, too. Sometimes it’s because they want to r ...

One day passed, however, another and another; she did not come and I began to grow calmer. I felt particularly bold and cheerful ...

But Christ himself, you might object, befriended tax-collectors and prostitutes. How dare I cast aspersions on the motives of th ...

would require far more from both of you. Are you so sure the person crying out to be saved has not decided a thousand times to a ...

mayonnaise and vodka, “That’s a problem for Future Homer. Man, I don’t envy that guy!”^66 How do I know that your suffering is n ...

someone to change for the better. The desire to improve was, instead, the precondition for progress. I’ve had court-mandated psy ...

or do something pristine. They will withdraw their presence or support, or actively punish you for it. They will over-ride your ...

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RULE 4 COMPARE YOURSELF TO WHO YOU WERE YESTERDAY, NOT TO WHO SOMEONE ELSE IS TODAY THE INTERNAL CRITIC It was easier for people ...

your friends, and everyone dreads your parties. Who cares if you are prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president ...

can choose a frame of time within which nothing matters. Talking yourself into irrelevance is not a profound critique of Being. ...

pick something better matched to your unique mix of strengths, weaknesses and situation. Furthermore, if changing games does not ...

consequence, we must compare ourselves to others, because standards are necessary. Without them, there is nowhere to go and noth ...

your duties to them. I’m talking about determining the nature of your moral obligation, to yourself. Should might enter into it, ...

it out, just because you’re thinking it.” He said, “It wants me to take my stepfather by the collar, put him up against the door ...

mark^70 ). We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.^71 We are a ...

renovations without being demoralized, even crushed, by your internal critic’s lengthy and painful report of your inadequacies? ...

offer in return for your cooperation? Maybe if you did the dishes, we could go for coffee. You like espresso. How about an espre ...

with each day, your baseline of comparison gets a little higher, and that’s magic. That’s compound interest. Do that for three y ...