Hi, everyone.

I'm pleased to announce the release of my new book, Beyond Order, 12 more rules for life.

I've been thinking for quite a while about what I would do to announce this book and what popped into my mind constantly was that I should start the announcement with a thank you to all my viewers,

listeners and readers for the tremendous support that you've shown to my work in all of its forms and for the multitude of kind and thoughtful and often air you dite and moving letters that you've sent to me and to my family and comments that you've left on YouTube and other forms of social media.

I've been constantly amazed and I mean constantly and I mean amazed by the volume of correspondence that has come my way and by the continual support I've received from so many people and so I'm pleased to have been of use.

I'm pleased that people found my last book, 12 rules for life, helpful and engaging and I hope very much that the same thing will prove true of this new book.

I'm going to read the 12 rules from this book and then I'm going to read some excerpts from it so that you can get a sense of the book.

12 rules like the 12 rules in the previous book were drawn from a longer list of 42 that I published on Quora rule one do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement rule two.

Imagine who you could be and then aim single mindedly at that rule three do not hide unwanted things in the fog.

Rule four notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated rule five do not do what you hate.

Rule six abandon ideology rule seven work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens.

Rule eight perhaps my favorite try to make one room in your home as beautiful as possible.

Rule nine if old memories still upset you write them down carefully and completely.

Rule ten plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationship.

Rule eleven do not allow yourself to become resentful deceitful or arrogant and rule twelve be grateful in spite of your suffering each of these rules is accompanied by an illustration as in the case of my previous book this time the illustrator is you lia folgra and she's done I think a lovely job.

We held a competition for the illustrations and she her work was at least in my opinion the best of the bunch and she's produced these lovely artworks that have a classical fairy tale appeal and so I think they add a bit of beauty to the book.

Why beyond order what is the genesis of that title how did you arrive at that title.

As far as I can tell in the world of value.

So let's think about value for a minute.

If you move towards something you value it.

Otherwise you wouldn't move towards it you there's an old joke about the chicken is why did the chicken cross the road and answer that is well he thought the other side was better.

Well that's that's the case you know and in order.

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