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Identity
Who you are when nobody is watching, and what you actually believe.
How to Be a Master Gentleman · series in 11 parts
- What is a gentleman?
- Identity — become a man you can respect
- Health — be capable of carrying your own weight
- Residence — make a good home
- Family — build something that outlives you
- Career — become useful, competent, and excellent
- Wealth — build, steward, and use money well
- Community — be a good neighbour and citizen
- Hobbies — learn things simply because they are worth knowing
- Adventure — go see what is out there
- The Master Gentleman’s Code
How to be a Traditional Conservative · series in 2 parts
Health
Carrying your own weight. Everything else runs through the body.
Hubbard’s Purification Rundown · series in 7 parts
- Clear Body, Clear Mind: what Hubbard’s Purification Rundown actually is
- Why did Hubbard use megadoses?
- Does the Purification Rundown actually remove chemicals from the body?
- Does the Purification Rundown actually make people healthier?
- Forty years of the Purification Rundown: what people learned by actually doing it
- Maybe you should try the Purification Rundown
- Where does the Purification Rundown fit into Dianetics and Scientology?
Fasting · series in 10 parts
- What is fasting? What happens when you stop eating?
- How to fast: a practical guide from 16 hours to longer periods
- Fasting and meditation: how to pray and meditate while fasting
- The three-day fast: what happens during 72 hours without food?
- The seven-day fast: what happens during a week without food?
- Fasting beyond seven days: the limits of the human body
- Modified fasting: what happens when you eat a little during a fast?
- Prolonged fasting: the people who pushed its limits
- Why humans fast: religion, history, and the meaning of going without
- How fasting changed their lives: ten remarkable transformations
Family
Pairing up, deciding who does what, and building something that outlives you.
Traditional vs Modern Relationships · series in 25 parts
- What are traditional relationships actually built around?
- Modern relationships: the price of negotiating everything
- Traditional vs. modern relationships: what each gets right
- Who does what in a marriage — and who decides?
- The traditional family was never just a relationship
- Men lean toward things, women toward people. Does it matter?
- The 1950s housewife wasn’t the original traditional family
- Why men’s and women’s roles changed so fast
- What men and women actually did all day before modern jobs
- Who worked more: men or women? The answer is complicated
- Before the welfare state, the family was the welfare state
- Marriage was an economic partnership before it was romantic
- Marriage joins two families, not just two people
- Marriage used to be a legal system, not just a love story
- Marriage was built to connect generations, not just couples
- The state and market took over what families used to do
- Two incomes gave families more money — and much less time
- Should couples specialize — or both learn to do everything?
- In marriage, who comes first: the individual or the family?
- Should marriage be built on duty or personal fulfillment?
- What does “equality” in a marriage actually mean?
- Every marriage has a leader, even the ones that deny it
- Marriage needs stability. How hard should it be to leave?
- Which parts of the traditional family still work?
- Most couples inherit their relationship model. Few choose it
Education
Learning what you need to know, long after school is over.
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Career
Becoming useful, competent, and worth paying.
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Wealth
Building money, keeping it, and using it for something.
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Community
Being a neighbour and a citizen rather than a resident.
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Hobbies
Learning things for no reason beyond their being worth knowing.
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Adventure
Going to see what is out there, while you still can.
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