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  • Acknowledgments

    Acknowledgments
    Feb 14 2025
    Acknowledgments First and foremost, I would like to thank Anna Biller for her assistance on so many aspects of this book—including her deft editing, the endless insightful ideas she supplied me during our discussions, and all the love and support during the writing.
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    5 min
  • Meditate on Our Common Mortality

    Meditate on Our Common Mortality
    Feb 13 2025
    Meditate on Our Common Mortality The Law of Death Denial Most of us spend our lives avoiding the thought of death. Instead, the inevitability of death should be continually on our minds. Understanding the shortness of life fills us with a sense of purpose and urgency to realize our goals.
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    18 min
  • Seize the Historical Moment

    Seize the Historical Moment
    Feb 12 2025
    Seize the Historical Moment The Law of Generational Myopia You are born into a generation that defines who you are more than you can imagine.
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    15 min
  • See the Hostility Behind the Friendly Facade

    See the Hostility Behind the Friendly Facade
    Feb 11 2025
    See the Hostility Behind the Friendly Facade The Law of Aggression On the surface, the people around you appear so polite and civilized. But beneath the mask, they are all inevitably dealing with frustrations
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    33 min
  • Make Them Want to Follow You

    Make Them Want to Follow You
    Feb 10 2025
    Make Them Want to Follow You The Law of Fickleness Although styles of leadership change with the times, one constant remains: people are always ambivalent about those in power.
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    37 min
  • Resist the Downward Pull of the Group

    Resist the Downward Pull of the Group
    Feb 9 2025
    Resist the Downward Pull of the Group The Law of Conformity We have a side to our character that we are generally unaware of—our social personality, the dif erent person we become when we operate in groups of people.
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    20 min
  • Advance with a Sense of Purpose

    Advance with a Sense of Purpose
    Feb 8 2025
    Advance with a Sense of Purpose The Law of Aimlessness Unlike animals, with their instincts to guide them past dangers, we humans have to rely upon our conscious decisions
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    20 min
  • Reconnect to the Masculine or Feminine Within You

    Reconnect to the Masculine or Feminine Within You
    Feb 7 2025
    Reconnect to the Masculine or Feminine Within You The Law of Gender Rigidity All of us have masculine and feminine qualities—some of this is genetic, and some of it comes from the profound influence of the parent of the opposite sex
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    19 min