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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
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怎麼這麼厲害!?
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"This is because chaos and order are interchangeable, as well as eternally juxtaposed. There is nothing so certain that it cannot vary... Every revolution produces a new order. Every death is...a metamorphosis."
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"In my kingdom...you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place. No one standing still can triumph, no matter how well constituted."
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"Standing up physically...implies and invokes and demands standing up metaphysically...means voluntarily accepting the burden of Being."
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"Order is not enough... Nonetheless, chaos can be too much... Thus, you need to place one foot in what you have mastered and understood and the other in what you are currently exploring and mastering... That is where meaning is to be found."
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"...your Being is inexorably tied up with that of others, and your mistreatment of yourself can have catastrophic consequences for others...we're not exactly nothing, either."
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"Faulty tools produce faulty results. Repeated use of the same faulty tools produces the same faulty results."
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"Standards of better or worse are not illusory or unnecessary. If you hadn't decided that what you are doing right now was better than the alternatives, you wouldn't be doing it."
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"But winning at everything might only mean that you're not doing anything new or difficult. You might be winning but you're not growing, and growing might be the most important form of winning."
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"We need to learn, because we're stupid and easily damaged. We can die... We feel hurt and scared and ashamed and disgusted so we can avoid damage... Pain is more potent than pleasure, and anxiety more than hope."
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"To have meaning in your life is better than to have what you want, because you may neither know what you want, nor what you truly need. Meaning is something that comes upon you, of its own accord."
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"As you continue to live in accordance with the truth, as it reveals itself to you, you will have to accept and deal with the conflicts that mode of Being will generate...continue to mature and...more responsible."
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"Things fall apart... And we speed the natural deterioration of great things through blindness, inaction and deceit."
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"When something goes wrong, even perception itself must be questioned, along with evaluation, thought and action... The problem itself must be admitted to, as close to the time of its emergence as possible."
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"If you shirk the responsibility of confronting the unexpected, even when it appears in manageable doses, reality itself will become unsustainably disorganised and chaotic. Then it will grow bigger and swallow all order..."
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"Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with..."
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"No one has a direct pipeline to your wants and needs - not even you... They sacrifice themselves...excessively, and cannot comprehend why that is not reciprocated."
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"Cooperation is for safety, security and companionship. Competition is for personal growth and status."
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1. Stand up straight with your shoulders back
2. Treat yourself like someone you are responsible helping
3. Make friends with people who want the best for you
4. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today
5. Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them
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6. Set your house in perfect order before you criticise the world
7. Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)
8. Tell the truth - or, at least, don't lie
9. Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't
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10. Be precise in your speech
11. Do not bother children when they are skateboarding
12. Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street
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