9781966703457 - everything your parents told you was wrong: a field guide to ditching old myths and writing a better manual for your life di green, paul (4 risultati)
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Somewhere in your head, right now, there is a voice. It sounds like your mother. It has opinions about your job, your rent, your feelings, and how long you waited before getting back in the pool. It is wrong about most of them.Here's the thing nobody told you: your parents handed you a user… manual for adulthood that was thoroughly tested, lovingly assembled, and quietly discontinued around 1987. Company loyalty paid off-once. A degree was a golden ticket-once. The eggs were going to kill you-briefly, officially, with a federal logo. Then the world got rebuilt, nobody mailed out the updated manual, and when your life caught fire following the instructions, you assumed you were the problem.Spoiler: it was never the lattes.Everything Your Parents Told You Was Wrong audits 68 lessons an entire generation was raised on-from "work hard and you'll get ahead" to "wait 30 minutes before swimming"-and puts each one on the table: where it came from, what the evidence actually says, what believing it cost you, and what to do instead. It's funnier than you expect and kinder than you fear, because this was never a hit piece on your parents. It's a recall notice on their manual, and the closing chapters are a genuine, tissue-adjacent defense of the people who wrote it with their whole hearts and 1975's best information.Read it however you want-and please don't read it front to back like it's homework. This book is built to be perused, not marched through. Every lesson stands completely on its own, so flip straight to the one your family said loudest, laugh, then follow your curiosity wherever it goes. The Table of Contents is a menu, not a running order. (Several readers have used it as a bingo card. Blackout is common. It is not technically a competition. It is a little bit a competition.)Inside this choose-your-own-outrage field guide: Why the latte was never the problem and the rent always wasThe one glorious year when "don't sit close to the TV" was actually trueThe doctor who cracked one hand's knuckles for sixty years to win an argument with his motherReal scripts for correcting a loved one's myth without ending ThanksgivingAn age-by-age action plan for raising humans who won't need the 2055 editionA field guide to spotting the next generation of bad advice-including the stuff you're confidently teaching right nowBecause everything in this book will happen again, and this time, we're the boomers. Part social commentary, part myth-busting self-help, part generational peace treaty-and 100% the book you'll keep quoting at people who didn't ask. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
