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Darren's Handout to accompany
oral report on Stein's How to Ruin Your Life
- Don't learn any useful skills
- Don't learn any self-discipline
- Convince yourself you're the center
of the universe
- Never accept any responsibility for
anything that goes wrong
- Criticize early and often
- Never be grateful
- Know that you're the source of all wisdom
- Envy everything; appreciate nothing
- Be a perfectionist
- Think too big
- Don't enjoy the simple things in life
- Fix anyone and everyone at any time
- Treat the people who are good to you
badly
- Treat the people who are bad to you well
- Hang out with the wrong crowd
- Make the people around you feel small
- Keep score
- Use drugs and alcohol freely
- Don't save any money
- Ignore your family
- Know that the rules of reasonable decent
conduct don't apply to you
- Live as if truth is relative - a distant
relative
- Remember that no one else counts
- Know that you don't owe anyone a thing
- Gamble with money
- Make it clear: pets are for losers
- Don't clean up after yourself
- Have no respect for age or experience
- Show everyone around you that you're
holier than thou
- Fight the good fight - over everything
- Do it your way
- Think the worse of everyone
- Live above your means
- Be a smart-ass
- Whenever possible, say "I told you
so."
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