In November 2021, my first child was born. I wrote a book to him, which I called The Graysonian Ethic: Lessons for my unborn son.
He's 7 months old now, and he's absolutely beautiful. I know he won't be able to make use of my lessons until he's much older, but I'm proud that he has this book to help him navigate through the world.
I talk about a lot of things in the book: How he has to think for himself and be aware of logical and rhetorical fallacies; Basic first principles that a young person needs to think about from a moral and practical basis; Some of the stories from his parents, grandparents, and great grandparents and how he can apply lessons from those; How to perform miracles -- how to successfully do things that most people wish they could; Different times I've failed in my life and lessons he can learn from that; Grit, and how you need to be tough; An existential crisis I had and some of the lessons I learned along the way; Building something in his life because his natural gifts won't last forever, and to think ahead because life is long and you need to remember that today is usually not the last day of your life; Environmentalism and social justice; Success, and that it'll only come if he fights for it; Economics, because I think that's important to understand for building a life, and on change and how it happens in the world and in yourself; How to handle it when you make a mistake, and constructive ways to deal with that; That the internet is not your friend; How you should embrace guilt and shame (in a specific healthy way); attraction, ways to meet the opposite sex, and a lot of warnings because attraction is a great positive and a great risk to your life; and finally how nobody owes him a thing and to be thankful for everything you get from anyone without being naïve.
Along the way I talk about science, history, geology, archaeology, genetics, and whatever other topics I need to explain my way of thinking.
I decided that if I was going to write this book, the best way to get it printed nicely was to publish it, and if I'm going to publish it, I might as well see if others might be interested in it as well, so it's available in paperback and kindle on amazon. Personally, I make more money off the ebook, but I prefer people buy the paperback since it'll be more permanent in the long run.
https://www.amazon.com/Graysonian-Ethic-Lessons-unborn-son/dp/1777932505/
He's 7 months old now, and he's absolutely beautiful. I know he won't be able to make use of my lessons until he's much older, but I'm proud that he has this book to help him navigate through the world.
I talk about a lot of things in the book: How he has to think for himself and be aware of logical and rhetorical fallacies; Basic first principles that a young person needs to think about from a moral and practical basis; Some of the stories from his parents, grandparents, and great grandparents and how he can apply lessons from those; How to perform miracles -- how to successfully do things that most people wish they could; Different times I've failed in my life and lessons he can learn from that; Grit, and how you need to be tough; An existential crisis I had and some of the lessons I learned along the way; Building something in his life because his natural gifts won't last forever, and to think ahead because life is long and you need to remember that today is usually not the last day of your life; Environmentalism and social justice; Success, and that it'll only come if he fights for it; Economics, because I think that's important to understand for building a life, and on change and how it happens in the world and in yourself; How to handle it when you make a mistake, and constructive ways to deal with that; That the internet is not your friend; How you should embrace guilt and shame (in a specific healthy way); attraction, ways to meet the opposite sex, and a lot of warnings because attraction is a great positive and a great risk to your life; and finally how nobody owes him a thing and to be thankful for everything you get from anyone without being naïve.
Along the way I talk about science, history, geology, archaeology, genetics, and whatever other topics I need to explain my way of thinking.
I decided that if I was going to write this book, the best way to get it printed nicely was to publish it, and if I'm going to publish it, I might as well see if others might be interested in it as well, so it's available in paperback and kindle on amazon. Personally, I make more money off the ebook, but I prefer people buy the paperback since it'll be more permanent in the long run.
https://www.amazon.com/Graysonian-Ethic-Lessons-unborn-son/dp/1777932505/
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