Pushkin.

So, one thing that chapter one is about is the fact that if a lobster is defeated in a

dominance battle, you can give it essentially anti-depressants and it will fight again.

There's a Canadian, like me, my age, almost exactly, who teaches my favorite subject,

psychology, at my alma mater, the University of Toronto. His name is Jordan Peterson.

If you want to understand a complex nervous system, it's a good idea to understand a simple one first

and then sort of elaborate upwards and it turns out that Saratona and governance status,

a general regulation and post your in lobsters just like it does in human beings.

And so that would just blew me away.

He wrote a very provocative self-help book called 12 Rules for Life.

Rule number one, stand up straight with your shoulders back.

Rule number two, treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.

Rule number 12, pat a cat when you encounter one on the street.

Peterson's book was a sensation and soon all kinds of other people were doing 12 rules.

Like the economist Tyler Cowan, whose blog marginal revolution is the first thing I read every morning,

I particularly like Cowan's Rule number seven. Learn how to learn from those who offend you.

Every time you turn a corner, 12 rules, the columnist Megan McCartle.

Rule number three, always order one extra dish at a restaurant

and unfamiliar one. You might like it which would be splendid.

If you don't like it, all you lost was a couple of bucks.

The exercise of curiosity requires a risk, a sacrifice, a commitment, and love that.

Also, McCartle's Rule number 12, always make more dinner rolls than you think you can eat.

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