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Overture
RULE 1
Stand up straight with your shoulders back
Lobsters—and Territory
Birds—and Territory
Conflict—and Territory
The Neurochemistry of Defeat and Victory
The Principle of Unequal Distribution
All the Girls
The Nature of Nature
Top and Bottom
Malfunction
Rising Up
RULE 2
Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping
Why Won’t You Just Take Your Damn Pills?
The Oldest Story and the Nature of the World
The Domain, Not of Matter, but of What Matters
Chaos and Order: Personality, Female and Male
The Garden of Eden
The Naked Ape
Good and Evil
A Spark of the Divine
RULE 3
Make friends with people who want the best for you
The Old Hometown
My Friend Chris and His Cousin
Teenage Wasteland
Some Different Friends—and Some More of the Same
Rescuing the Damned
A Reciprocal Arrangement
RULE 4
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today
The Internal Critic
Many Good Games
The Point of Our Eyes (or, Take Stock)
What You Want and What You See
Old Testament God and New Testament God
Pay Attention
RULE 5
Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them
Actually, It’s Not Ok
Everybody Hates Arithmetic
The Ignoble Savage
Parent or Friend
Discipline and Punish
Minimum Necessary Force
A Summary of Principles
The Good Child—and the Responsible Parent
RULE 6
Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world
A Religious Problem
Vengeance or Transformation
Things Fall Apart
Clean Up Your Life
RULE 7
Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)
Get While the Getting’s Good
The Delay of Gratification
Death, Toil and Evil
Evil, Confronted
Christianity and its Problems
Doubt, Past Mere Nihilism
Meaning as the Higher Good
RULE 8
Tell the truth—or, at least, don’t lie
Truth in No-Man’s-Land
My Landlord
Manipulate the World
The Truth, Instead
RULE 9
Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t
Not Advice
Figure It Out for Yourself
A Listening Person
How Should You Listen?
Primate Dominance–Hierarchy Manoeuvres—and Wit
Conversation on the Way
RULE 10
Be precise in your speech
Why Is My Laptop Obsolete?
Tools, Obstacles and Extension into the World
The World Is Simple Only When It Behaves
You and I Are Simple Only When the World Behaves
What Do We See When We Don’t Know What We’re Looking At?
The Construction of Soul and World
Wheat from Chaff
RULE 11
Do not bother children when they are skateboarding
Danger and Mastery
Success and Resentment
More about Chris
Self-Appointed Judges of the Human Race
Career and Marriage
The Patriarchy: Help or Hindrance?
Postmodernism and the Long Arm of Marx
Lest We Forget: Ideas Have Consequences.
Boys into Girls
Compassion as a Vice
Toughen Up, You Weasel
RULE 12
Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street
Dogs are Ok Too
Suffering and the Limitations of Being
Disintegration and Pain
Dogs, Again—But Finally, Cats
Coda
What Shall I Do With My Newfound Pen of Light?
Acknowledgements