The Twelve Suggestions

1. Your ability to judge someone else depends on how well you know them, so you can’t judge people well until you make an effort to understand them.

2. Biography determines perspective, or where you come from and what you’ve been through shapes how you see the world.

3. Relationships and experiences are more valuable than possessions. The value of money depends upon what you do with it.

4. Helping others always helps you.

5. Technology and groups are neither good nor bad, but it makes people’s decisions more powerful, and so technology and groups magnify consequences.

6. Tough decisions reveal your true values. Values are opinions that a person has decided to treat as a fact.

7. You should learn about the past so you can shape the future.

8. Art reflects the world and can change it.

9. Only the educated are free.

10. Attitude plus effort defeat talent.

11. All evil is really only ignorance, all virtue is knowledge. No one does evil knowingly.

12. Both opinions and facts are meaningless alone, but together, in an argument, they are the only things that are meaningful.