{"id":33648,"date":"2019-06-13T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=33648"},"modified":"2019-06-08T15:54:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T22:54:19","slug":"advice-from-books-2-4-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/advice-from-books-2-4-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Freak #7: Random Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/bookfreak\/\">Book Freak<\/a> is the third newsletter from Cool Tools Lab (our other two are the <a href=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/subscribe-to-email-list\/\">Cool Tools Newsletter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recomendo.com\/\">Recomendo<\/a>). In each weekly issue, we offer three short pieces of advice from books. Here&#8217;s the advice from our\u00a0fifth\u00a0issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to disobey your mother<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cIf your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won\u2019t. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your best judgment.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u2015 Mark Twain, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2WqTsM6\">Advice to Little Girls<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>How to avoid being hassled by the man<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cIf you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u2015 Louis L&#8217;Amour, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2IvH8VI\">The Man Called Noon<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>How to avoid someone you dislike<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cOf course, to avoid getting stuck in that convo with someone you dislike or feel uncomfortable around, don\u2019t be passive, be proactive. Do not let them direct your interaction on their terms, do it on yours. Ask a Misdirection Question\u2013something too difficult to answer quickly\u2013e.g., \u2018What\u2019s Congress up to?\u2019 or &#8216;You ever learn any cool science?\u2019 When you ask the question, don\u2019t make eye contact, keep moving and get out of there. Do not wait for a response and deny ever asking it. Repeat these actions until you are never again spoken to by that individual (about four times).\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u2015 Eugene Mirman, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Infn1y\">The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grab-bag of advice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33651,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33648\/revisions\/33651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}