{"id":7276,"date":"2018-03-18T13:31:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T13:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7276"},"modified":"2018-03-18T13:31:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T13:31:38","slug":"tyler-cowens-12-rules-for-life-marginal-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/18\/tyler-cowens-12-rules-for-life-marginal-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:Tyler Cowen&#039;s 12 rules for life &#8211; Marginal REVOLUTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Tyler Cowen\u2019s 12 rules for lifeby Tyler Cowen on January 24, 2018 at 12:55 am in Education, Philosophy, Sports, Uncategorized | Permalink<br \/>\nAfter reading Jordan Peterson\u2019s 12 rules, a few people asked me what my list would look like.\u00a0 I would stress that what follows is not a universal or eternally valid account, but rather a few ideas that strike me in the here and now, perhaps as the result of recent conversations.\u00a0 I suspect the same is true for everyone\u2019s rules lists, so please keep this in perspective.<br \/>\nHere goes:<br \/>\n1. Assume your temperament will always be somewhat childish and impatient, and set your rules accordingly, knowing that you cannot abide by rules for rules sake.\u00a0 Hope to leverage your impatience toward your longer-run advantage.<br \/>\n2. Study the symbolic systems of art, music, literature. and religion, if only to help yourself better understand alternative points of view in political and intellectual discourse.\u00a0 Don\u2019t just spend time with the creations you like right away.\u00a0 Avoid \u201cdevalue and dismiss.\u201d<br \/>\n3. When the price goes up, buy less.\u00a0 Try to understand what the price really is, however, and good luck with that.<br \/>\n4. Marry well.<br \/>\n5. Organize at least some significant portion of your knowledge of the world in terms of place, whether by country, region, or city.\u00a0 If you do that, virtually every person will be interesting to you, if only because almost everyone has some valuable knowledge of particular places.<br \/>\n6. When shooting the basketball, give it more arc than you think is necessary.\u00a0 Consistently.<br \/>\n7. Learn how to learn from those who offend you.<br \/>\n8. Cultivate mentors, and be willing to serve as mentors to others.\u00a0 This never loses its importance.<br \/>\n9. I don\u2019t know.<br \/>\n10. Heed Cowen\u2019s Three Laws.<br \/>\n11. Do not heed Cowen\u2019s Three Laws.<br \/>\n12. Every now and then read or reread Erasmus, Montaigne, Homer, Shakespeare, or Joyce\u2019s Ulysses, so that you do not take any rules too seriously.\u00a0 The human condition seems to defeat our attempts to order it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2018\/01\/tyler-cowens-12-rules-life.html\">Tyler Cowen&#8217;s 12 rules for life &#8211; Marginal REVOLUTION<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Cowen\u2019s 12 rules for lifeby Tyler Cowen on January 24, 2018 at 12:55 am in Education, Philosophy, Sports, Uncategorized | Permalink After reading Jordan Peterson\u2019s 12 rules, a few people asked me what my list would look like.\u00a0 I would stress that what follows is not a universal or eternally valid account, but rather &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/18\/tyler-cowens-12-rules-for-life-marginal-revolution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:Tyler Cowen&#039;s 12 rules for life &#8211; Marginal REVOLUTION&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}