The Mission — The Art of Non-Conformity

The Art of Non-Conformity

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№ ii THE MISSION

A manifesto from the opening pages.

My motivation is to help people challenge authority and live unconventional, remarkable lives.

The mission is to support a full-scale revolution with a simple underlying message:

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You don't have to live your life the way other people expect you to.

If you stop reading now and begin living every day according to that statement, your life will never be the same.

Consider the example of the five monkeys… →

Contents

i The Bridge From the prologue.
ii The Mission
iii The Five Monkeys From Chapter 1.
iv 11 Ways to Be Unremarkably Average From Chapter 1—what a safe, comfortable life looks like.
v FedEx and the Ice Storm An early memory from a fortuitous ice storm.
vi The Lottery Fantasy What you'd buy if you weren't already living it.
vii Bernard Lopez A bicycle trip across the U.S.—just because.
viii Forgiveness or permission
ix What you don't need / what you do need A comparison of two lists.
x The thesis and the manifesto A $32,000 piece of paper.
xi The Indispensable Relationship From Chapter 9—on ordering your life around what you actually want.
xii Balanced people don't change the world
xiii The Math of a Week
xiv The to-stop-doing list A short activity to save time and attention.
xv Table Mountain A life lesson.
xvi Glory Days On the danger of mistaking your past for your present.
xvii Dog food man From Chapter 8—what a stranger predicted, and how it almost lands.
xviii Yesterday or today
xix Shackleton's Flyer
xx Come join the living world
xxi Outro

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