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Back to EpisodesI Learned This the Hard Way: Write Down Your Rules | Daily Essay
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One of the rules I read each morning could have saved me three years: don't force it. In 1846 Peter Panum found the old people of the Faroe Islands stayed healthy through a measles outbreak, because their bodies kept a record of the last one. Your rules for living work the same way, but only when you remember them.
Featuring: Peter Panum, George Santayana
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Chapters:
(00:00) Santayana on repeating the past
(00:06) Don't force it, the three-year rule
(00:25) Peter Panum and the Faroe Islands measles outbreak
(00:46) Rules for living as records
(00:56) Focus on what you control
(01:09) Collect your rules and reread them
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