Poul’s Reviews > 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos > Status Update

This is the end of Chapter (Rule) 1. I will go back to reread,a measure of investment in this book. The two things that stand out to me at the end of this particular reading are:

standing up means voluntarily accepting the burden of being.

…adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and morality are only dimly comprehended.