Rules To Live By

Before we dig in: where did you read most of this one, and did it make you want to go outside or stay very warmly indoors?

Was there a rule or line of advice in here that you found yourself repeating to someone in your actual life this week? Tell us how that went.

Chin writes about risk as something you learn to be in relationship with rather than conquer. What is one small risk you have made peace with, and one you have quietly decided is not for you?

So much of this book is about being taken in by a community of people who do a strange, demanding thing. When has a group of people adopted you like that, and what did it feel like to be let in?

Reading about mentors and elders who passed down hard-earned knowledge, who came to mind for you? Did you feel grateful, wistful, or a little of both?

The book treats patience and waiting (for weather, for conditions, for readiness) as a real skill. Did that comfort you or make you restless about something you are currently waiting on?

Chin is honest about the cost of a life organized around something consuming. Without giving anything away, did the book leave you feeling the trade was worth it, and did your answer change for your own life versus his?

By the time you closed the book, which rule had quietly rearranged itself for you, meaning you understood it differently at the end than when you first read it? Keep it vague on details and just tell us what shifted inside you.