Rule 1: Stand up straight with your shoulders back

New skateboarders do crazy things because they're trying to become competent. They're facing danger. They don't want the damn protective gear.

It's like, "no I don’t wanna wear a helmet,"

"I want to expose myself to this dangerous thing,"

"It's not that I'm stupid,"

And th...

The unnamable is far more terrifying than the nameable.

No matter how terrible the actuality is it's rarely as terrible as your imagination because your imagination has seen a lot of terrible things in the history of life.

It can put monsters everywhere.

And so, it's almost alwa...

You have to be alert when you're suffering.

You have to be alert to the unexpected beauty in life.

You have to look for those little bits of sparkling crystal in the darkness when things are bad.

Being grateful for what we have can get us through some very dark times.

If w...

Meaning is what you have to buttress yourself against the tragedy of life despite the fact that you're a fragile, damaged, and mortal creature. It is when you found something to do that announced itself as worthwhile.

Meaning tells you when you are in the right place. And the right place is...

You want to enter into a conversation so that you come out wiser than you went in.

Figure out what winning the argument really means. Winning when you're wrong is a really bad idea because then you think you’re right, and you’re not.

You might want to listen because there is the possi...

You should be better than you are.

But it's not because you're worse than other people, it's because you're not everything you should be.

And so, you got to pick the comparison right, compare yourself to you.

And then that's also ennobling. Instantly hopeful.

There is ...

Like you have an ethical responsibility to take care of yourself, you have an ethical responsibility to surround yourself with people who have the Courage,

Faith,

And Wisdom,

To wish you well when you've done something good,

And to stop you when you're doing something dest...

There are plenty of things to criticize about being. It's tragic.

You can complain about that, but the thing is, if you complain about that, if you adopt that attitude - which is sort of an Anti-Being attitude - you go places that if you knew you were going you probably wouldn't want to go....

Don't underestimate the power of your speech, the power of truth.

There's nothing more powerful.

To speak what you might regard as the truth, you have to let go of the outcome.

Nothing brings a better world into being than the stated truth. You might have to pay a price for that...

I recently read 12 rules for life by Jordan Peterson. Let’s walk through all 12 rules using his commentary on them as found in his lecture series: 12 Rules for Life. All 12 rules and unedited descriptions of them can be found in this video her...

dislike them.

If you're good to your kid in a real way, you can help maintain that tremendous attractiveness that they have as young children.

And then, wherever they go adults welcome them and teach them things.

And pat them on the head and smile at them genuinely, instead of s...