That is — everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you. And you can change it. You can influence it…. Once you … - Vishen Lakhiani

loving-kindness” — the antidote to the human tendency of “attribution error.

Of course, there’s a darker side to culture: when we get so focused on our rules that we turn them into decrees about how life “should” be and label people or processes as good or bad if they don’t follow the rules. This is how you should live. This is how you should dress. This is how women, children, the sick, the elderly, or the “different” should be treated. My tribe is superior to your tribe. My ways are right, which means that yours are wrong. My beliefs are right, and yours are wrong. My God is the only God. We create these complex worlds and then literally defend them with our lives. The language and rules that define our culture can cost lives as much as cultivate them.

Know that this book may challenge some of your deeply held beliefs about life.