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+**Principles of Adult Behavior**
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+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. Expect no more of anyone 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. Never 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 define your mission and pursue that.
+16. Reduce your use of the first personal pronoun.
+17. Praise at least as often as you disparage.
+18. Admit your errors freely and soon.
+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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+~John Perry Barlow, 2013
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