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# 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

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## Highlight

So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them—at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence. ^ref-50194
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TREAT YOURSELF LIKE SOMEONE YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HELPING ^ref-8883
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## Highlight

As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, “He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.” ^ref-43904
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If you surround yourself with people who support your upward aim, they will not tolerate your cynicism and destructiveness. They will instead encourage you when you do good for yourself and others and punish you carefully when you do not. ^ref-34752
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## Highlight

Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life. ^ref-1785
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Because the consequence of remaining silent is worse. Of course, it’s easier in the moment to stay silent and avoid conflict. But in the long term, that’s deadly. ^ref-46678
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What you aim at determines what you see. ^ref-49591
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Life doesn’t have the problem. You do. At least that realization leaves you with some options. ^ref-49750
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More thoughtful parents would not have let someone they truly cared for become the object of a crowd’s contempt. ^ref-24446
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But more often than not, modern parents are simply paralyzed by the fear that they will no longer be liked or even loved by their children if they chastise them for any reason. They want their children’s friendship above all, and are willing to sacrifice respect to get it. This is not good. ^ref-48333
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Do what is meaningful, not what is expedient. ^ref-58490
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## Highlight

You are by no means only what you already know. You are also all that which you could know, if you only would. Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are. You should never give up the better that resides within for the security you already have—and certainly not when you have already caught a glimpse, an undeniable glimpse, of something beyond. ^ref-43687
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A lie is connected to everything else. It produces the same effect on the world that a single drop of sewage produces in even the largest crystal magnum of champagne. It is something best considered live and growing. ^ref-20028
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Why avoid, when avoidance necessarily and inevitably poisons the future? Because the possibility of a monster lurks underneath all disagreements and errors. ^ref-61971
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## Highlight

But not thinking about something you don’t want to know about doesn’t make it go away. You are merely trading specific, particular, pointed knowledge of the likely finite list of your real faults and flaws for a much longer list of undefined potential inadequacies and insufficiencies. ^ref-64820
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## Highlight

No one can have a discussion about “everything.” Instead, you can say, “This exact, precise thing—that is what is making me unhappy. This exact, precise thing—that is what I want, as an alternative (although I am open to suggestions, if they are specific). This exact, precise thing—that is what you could deliver, so that I will stop making your life and mine miserable.” But to do that, you have to think: What is wrong, exactly? What do I want, exactly? ^ref-6622
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People, including children (who are people too, after all), don’t seek to minimize risk. They seek to optimize it. They drive and walk and love and play so that they achieve what they desire, but they push themselves a bit at the same time, too, so they continue to develop. Thus, if things are made too safe, people (including children) start to figure out ways to make them dangerous again. ^ref-54750
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Why do we teach our young people that our incredible culture is the result of male oppression? ^ref-54297
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Here’s the fundamental problem: group identity can be fractionated right down to the level of the individual. ^ref-63546
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Insufficiently aggressive women—and men, although more rarely—do too much for others. ^ref-14506
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I teach excessively agreeable people to note the emergence of such resentment, which is a very important, although very toxic, emotion. There are only two major reasons for resentment: being taken advantage of (or allowing yourself to be taken advantage of), or whiny refusal to adopt responsibility and grow up. If you’re resentful, look for the reasons. ^ref-17336
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People can survive through much pain and loss. But to persevere they must see the good in Being. If they lose that, they are truly lost. ^ref-56962
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aim to be the person at your father’s funeral that everyone, in their grief and misery, can rely on. ^ref-20434
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Failure to make the proper sacrifices, failure to reveal yourself, failure to live and tell the truth—all that weakens you. In that weakened state, you will be unable to thrive in the world, and you will be of no benefit to yourself or to others. You will fail and suffer, stupidly. ^ref-23654
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# A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

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## Highlight

In 1968, Baba Dioum, a Senegalese forest ranger, provided a memorable answer. “In the end,” he said, “we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.” ^ref-62796
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Together, dark matter and dark energy are thought to make up some 95 percent of all that exists, enigmatic constituents that we can’t detect but which are thought to have played a major role in shaping the universe. ^ref-31554
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If light chronicles the history of the universe, rocks tell our planet’s story. When you gaze into the Grand Canyon or marvel at the peaks framing Lake Louise, you’re viewing nature’s library, with volumes of Earth history on display, inscribed in stone. Sediments—cobbles, sands, or muds formed by erosion of earlier rocks, or limestones precipitated from water bodies—spread across floodplains and the seafloor, recording, layer upon layer, the physical, chemical, and biological features of our planet’s surface at the time and place they formed. Igneous rocks—formed from molten materials deep inside the Earth—tell us more about our planet’s dynamic interior, as do metamorphic rocks forged from sedimentary or igneous precursors at elevated temperature and pressure deep within the Earth. Collectively, these rocks offer a grand narrative of Earth’s development from youth to maturity, of life’s evolution from bacteria to you, and—perhaps the grandest narrative of all—of the ways that the physical and biological Earth have influenced each other through time. ^ref-10466
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Our planet coalesced some 4.54 billion years ago, but Earth’s oldest known rocks date back only to about 4 billion years. Older rocks must have existed, but they’ve been eroded away or were buried and transformed through metamorphism into unrecognizable form. A few may still lie in some remote Canadian or Siberian hillside, waiting to be recognized, but largely, the first 600 million years of Earth history constitutes our planet’s Dark Age. ^ref-41339
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A few tens of millions of years after Earth had mostly accreted, a Mars-size body rammed into our infant planet, flinging rock and gas into space. Much of the ejected material eventually coalesced to form a relatively small rocky sphere, locked into permanent orbit around the Earth. The full moon may inspire poetry, but it was born in violence, its secrets unlocked through careful studies of lunar rocks. ^ref-53195
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Uranium-238 has a half-life of 4.47 billion years, meaning that on this timescale half of the uranium-238 in a sample will have decayed to lead-206; similarly, uranium-235 has a half-life of 710 million years. Because no lead entered the zircons as they formed, any lead we measure in them today must have formed by the radioactive decay of uranium. So, by the careful measurement of uranium and lead in zircons, we gain a clock, Earth’s best chronometer for calibrating our planet’s deep history. ^ref-51112
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Chondritic meteorites, then, provide a source of water and carbon, and unlike comets, they pass the hydrogen isotope test. Thus it looks like chondritic meteorites of different kinds provided most of the rock, water, and air that we call home. ^ref-17438
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Similarly, proteins—such good food for bacteria and fungi—are rarely preserved in any but the youngest rocks. What do preserve are lipids, those hardy constituents of membranes. I’m fond of telling students that when they die, the last bits of them that will remain for future generations to ponder will be their cholesterol! ^ref-60084
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Had you lived at the time of Christ or a thousand years later, your life and, indeed, the human impact on our planet would have been broadly similar. Our numbers didn’t change much over that interval, hovering around 200 million. As humans learned to exploit the energy resources beneath our feet, however, the trajectories of population size, technological innovation, and environmental influence moved into high gear—in less than two centuries, we went from horse power and steam to gasoline and jet fuel. The human population passed the billion point around 1800, reaching two billion by 1930, and four billion in 1975. We’re on course to complete another doubling in the coming decade. And as our population has grown, the environmental impact of each individual has expanded remarkably. Fossil fuels have been extracted since the nineteenth century, but their use has increased nearly tenfold since World War II. ^ref-43284
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Nearly two billion people who depend on seasonal melt from mountain glaciers in low latitudes will also see water availability dwindle as the glaciers that sustain them shrink and eventually disappear. ^ref-56258
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# A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

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Consciousness actually means for us the distinguishing characteristic of the psychic life, and psychology is the science of the content of consciousness. ^ref-61168
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SECOND ^ref-52350
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# Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

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In ^ref-16855
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# America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

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Across the ages and regardless of geography, in everything that really matters, it bears repeating that we are all members of a SINGLE human family—a family of intrepid adventurers who have been exploring the world in one form or another for the best part of a million years. ^ref-5844
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When, I wonder, will archaeologists take to heart the old dictum that absence of evidence is not the same thing as evidence of absence, and learn the lessons that their own profession has repeatedly taught—namely that the next turn of the excavator’s spade can change everything? ^ref-6989
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Indeed, what the evidence suggests is the former existence of “an ancient North American international religion10 … a common ethnoastronomy … and a common mythology. ^ref-30544
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Whereas in Mississippian art it was customary to depict a star in the form of a circle or dot, the star symbol in ancient Egypt was very much like the five-pointed version we still use today. ^ref-34324
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