Don't Listen to Your Elders: A Field Guide Bad Advice

"Everything you know is wrong. At least, the advice your elders gave you." For generations, the same wisdom has been passed down with absolute confidence, at dinner tables, in locker rooms, at weddings, and on motivational posters. Nobody questioned it. Nobody checked. It rhymed, so it must be true. - Why "blood is thicker than water" means the exact opposite of what you think - The Nobel Prize-winning research that proves money can buy happiness - What Nietzsche was doing when he wrote "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" - Why Shakespeare put "neither a borrower nor a lender be" in the mouth of a fool - The proverb that directly contradicts itself, and fifteen others just like it The elders meant well. They were just working with incomplete information.

Pages: 90, Paperback, Independently published