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Adult Principles

John Perry Barlow lists 25 adult principles that encourage patience, avoiding blame, expanding perspectives, ignoring matters outside one's control, treating others as you wish to be treated, tolerating ambiguity, focusing on being right rather than who is right, avoiding unnecessary risks, avoiding lies, respecting others, pursuing one's mission over happiness, reducing ego, praising more than criticizing, admitting errors, embracing joy, understanding humility, forgiveness, dignity, creating memorable experiences, self-love, and perseverance.

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Adult Principles

John Perry Barlow lists 25 adult principles that encourage patience, avoiding blame, expanding perspectives, ignoring matters outside one's control, treating others as you wish to be treated, tolerating ambiguity, focusing on being right rather than who is right, avoiding unnecessary risks, avoiding lies, respecting others, pursuing one's mission over happiness, reducing ego, praising more than criticizing, admitting errors, embracing joy, understanding humility, forgiveness, dignity, creating memorable experiences, self-love, and perseverance.

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Adult Principles

John Perry Barlow

1. Be patient. No matter what.


2. Don’t badmouth: Assign responsibility, not blame. Say nothing of another you wouldn’t say to him.
3. Never assume the motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are to you.
4. Expand your sense of the possible.
5. Don’t trouble yourself with matters you truly cannot change.
6. Don’t ask more of others than you can deliver yourself.
7. Tolerate ambiguity.
8. Laugh at yourself frequently.
9. Concern yourself with what is right rather than who is right.
10. Try not to forget that, no matter how certain, you might be wrong.
11. Give up blood sports.
12. Remember that your life belongs to others as well. Don’t risk it frivolously.
13. Never lie to anyone for any reason. (Lies of omission are sometimes exempt.)
14. Learn the needs of those around you and respect them.
15. Avoid the pursuit of happiness. Seek to de ne your mission and pursue that.
16. Reduce your use of the rst personal pronoun.
17. Praise at least as oen as you disparage.
18. Admit your errors freely and quickly.
19. Become less suspicious of joy.
20. Understand humility.
21. Remember that love forgives everything.
22. Foster dignity.
23. Live memorably.
24. Love yourself.
25. Endure.

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