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A personal code for living your life your way.
From a very young age you've been inundated with other people's well-intended rules. Whether from teachers, friends or parents, these helpful principles and bits of gracious advice are supposed to help you get on in life. The trouble is, many of these rules aren't true (at least not all the time) and yet they have a major influence on your life whether you realise it or not.
How do you sort the gold dust from the sawdust?
In The Rules to Break, international bestselling author Richard Templar exposes the most common phoney rules, explains what's wrong with them and then offers a refreshing alternative and a new way of thinking. Above all, he'll help you master the ability to truly think for yourself, so than you can follow a path that you've chosen, rather than blindly following someone else's.
It's your life. Why not live it your way?
Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Rules to break
1. Success is a good job earning lots of money
Rule 1: Success is what you say it is
2. Some people are just born lucky
Rule 2: Don't envy other people
3. You need the right qualifications
Rule 3: Exams aren't the be all and end all
4. Your parents are always right
Rule 4: Don't expect your parents to be perfect
5. Your parents are responsible for how you turn out
Rule 5: Give your parents a break
6. The world is against you
Rule 6: You're responsible for your own life
7. We all have an absolute right to be respected
Rule 7: There's a balance between the right to respect, and tolerance
8. You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family
Rule 8: Your siblings should be your best friends for life
9. Teacher knows best
Rule 9: Getting on at school is not the same as getting on in life
10. Have something to say for yourself
Rule 10: If you find it hard to talk, try listening
11. Some people are just difficult
Rule 11: No one chooses to be difficult without a reason
12. Don't waste your time on people who aren't worth it
Rule 12: Suffer fools gladly. Well, suffer them, anyway
13. You can't be cheerful if you're in pain
Rule 13: Pain doesn't have to make you miserable
14. Good work speaks for itself
Rule 14: No one at work will know how good you are unless you tell them
15. Do what it takes to get what you want
Rule 15: Don't emotionally blackmail people
16. A place for everything, and everything in its place
Rule 16: It's not morally superior to be tidy
17. It matters what other people think
Rule 17: Don't live for other people's approval
18. Give as good as you get
Rule 18: You get what you give
19. Stick with your own kind
Rule 19: Your friends don't all need to be like you
20. The best things in life are free
Rule 20: Everything worth having hurts
21. You can change people
Rule 21: Don't try to change people
22. It's where you're going that matters, not where you came from
Rule 22: Be proud of your roots
23. Friends are for life
Rule 23: Friends come and go
24. Mistakes are a bad thing
Rule 24: Mistakes can be good
25. Be a friend to everybody
Rule 25: You don't have to like everyone
26. ... and everybody will be your friend
Rule 26: ... and not everyone will like you
27. If you don't like it, tough
Rule 27: Remember you have a choice
28. You need to get your chores over with
Rule 28: Life's all about the little things
29. Stay true to your dreams
Rule 29: Priorities change over the years
30. People have a right to know
Rule 30: Know how to keep a secret
31. Face your fears
Rule 31: Replace the bad thoughts
32. Make a New Year's resolution every year
Rule 32: You can't change habits unless
