The Little Book Of Psychology Rules For Life

Rules. We all hate them, but we also need them. Life without rules is chaos; life with too many rules leads to disconnection from yourself. The trick is knowing which rules matter for your best life.

Psychology has been giving us those ideas for centuries. From Freud’s obsessions to Kahneman’s cool math of the mind, humans have been trying to decode themselves. Not always elegantly. Not always correctly. But useful, if you know how to pick through it. Great thinkers had blind spots. They were also humans. They got things wrong. But buried in their work are truths worth stealing. That’s what this little book is, a summary of the best thoughts. 

Big ideas you can actually live by.

The rules are simple, but living them is the work. 

Some of these rules will challenge you. They’ll sound obvious at first. But you will realise you’ve been ignoring them unconsciously. Others will annoy you. Good. Annoyance means you’re awake.  Think of this as a handbook.. A quick guide to the human psyche. To your mind. To my mind. To the daily confusion of trying to figure out your life. Psychology doesn’t have all the answers, but it does give us better questions.

And better questions are sometimes all you need to start figuring yourself out.