Some of these things are pretty good things to be mindful about in adult life, most of them in fact.
However, applying them all would make you the worlds biggest doormat.
However, applying them all would make you the worlds biggest doormat.
How so? Nowhere does it say "prioritize others desires ahead of your own" or "back down easily" or "tolerate assholes", it just says to be aware that they believe they're right.
It seems to me a good list to aspire to and perhaps frequently break a couple. Anything I disagree with in that list, I can also see the other argument, and I can admit that from a certain perspective the list is making the morally correct point.
I didn't know much about this guy, but RIP.
In case you're wondering how these came about though, from his AMA:
> In fact, the night before I turned 30, I found myself so surprised to have reached an age of indisputable adult that I wrote up a set of "adult principles" that I've been trying to live up to for 35 years.