51 Quotes from The Rudest Book Ever

Today we’ll go through 51 quotes from the book “The Rudest Book Ever”. This self-help book tells you how to learn, how to think, how to distance yourself from “I” and solve almost all your life problems.

This book gives you a totally new and different perspective to see the world and improve your life.

Quotes

1. Every person has to learn HOW TO LEARN.
2. A critical thinker would be much closer to a self-aware scientist than an ignorant, highly confident person lacking the knowledge to even qualify to have a reasonable opinion on that subject.
3. “What to think” is what we are taught in our childhood and what FEELS can be taught at any time in your life.
4. A person’s emotional responses are one of the first ways how they learn about things.
5. We need to understand this: because somebody is older does not mean that they have achieved wisdom.
6. Your genetic composition, parenting, environment, self-belief, and self-reliance matter a lot in how you deal with your insecurities.
7. Specialness exists only because the idea of self exists.
8. A person’s emotional responses to different experiences create interpretations of those experiences, which the person assumes to be true. Therefore, emotional responses become one of the earliest teachers of the person.For the longest period, what we have is a trapped self. It’s trapped because it is controlled majorly by what others think of you.
9. Freedom from something doesn’t mean never having it again, it means being free from its control.
10. When you distance yourself from the “I”, the desire to occupy, own, achieve, seduce, dominate, judge, rule, control, be lined, loved, and celebrated becomes like floating tabs on the screen of your phone.
11. Instead of focusing on some person or the outside world, you focus on self-assigned standards created out of data from the outside world itself.
12. Humans in attempts to secure a romantic or sexual mate immediately, not only label the other person “special” but do so without any evidence other than attraction.
13. You protect yourself no matter what it takes. If you have to distance yourself from XYZ to protect your mental health, physical body, and future prospects, then you do it.
14. A person’s emotional responses to different experiences create interpretations of those experiences, which the person assumes to be true. Therefore, emotional responses become one of the earliest teachers of the person.
15. Teaching what to think stops the product from learning how to think and since the person doesn’t learn how to think, it grows up to be confused and clueless regarding how to deal with this world.
16. A person brought up on what to think tends to feel threatened by alien ideas, things, or people, which may end up pushing them more toward what they know and are familiar with.
17. Status is a socially engineered identity that tends to replace individual identity.
18. The point of having a brain should be to minimize error, not having to deal with it endlessly. But you were never taught the mechanisms which would prepare you to protect yourself and understand the errors that produce bothersome situations, hurt, and pain.
19. The more you study your thoughts, the more power you will have over your actions. The more you listen to your thoughts as a detective instead of following them as instructions, the more you are able to change them and influence your personality.
20. Individualism without self-awareness is only an illusion of freedom.
21. Your thoughts and actions are a result of experiences that happened millions of years ago.
22. Without self-knowledge, what you have is not yourself, but your desires, cluelessness, and the need to be accepted controlling the decisions of your life.
23. Self-controlling is yourself limiting desires and urges that harm your goals in the process of building stability.
24. Fools hide their confusion from everybody, whereas the wise flash it around like expensive jewelry.
25. Having a perception to fall back on is better than having no perception at all much better than having misleading perceptions.
26. People who are going to be good or bad to you will both present themselves as good since that is the only way to gain your trust.
27. In order to attain life satisfaction, choosing consciously what you need to add and what you don’t is more important than anything else.
28. A person at peace within themselves is never alone in this world.
29. Reading is intellectual development that empowers you in your own eyes.
30. Allow moments in your life which prove to you that real smartness begins with accepting that you are not the smartest.
31. Winning is a journey and ultimately a dumb illusion.
32. There is a huge possibility that you’re going to fail a lot. It is fine.
33. Focus on learning, learn what you enjoy, enjoy what you are learning, capitalize on what you are learning, and most of all, enjoy the life that you are living.
34. Good solutions are good to come by.
35. The quietness of nature allows those ignored thoughts to come out and be heard.
36. Humans have a self-centered need to create heroes, so either they can become heroes one day or be approved by one or they can fill the shoes of what defines a hero.
37. Humans have a need to look up to somebody for answers and guidance. This gives birth to intellectual, spiritual, moral, religious, and scientific heroes.
38. Admiring somebody for their skills and hard work is natural. Believing that somebody is above you in existence is nonsense.
39. You don’t expect people to be better or worse, you don’t expect. You go where data takes you. That way, you make much better assessments and decisions with regard to people in your life.
40. Be open to learning new from everybody in life, even those you think are beneath you, you think are idiots or you think are your enemies. There is not a single person on this planet from whom you can’t learn something new.
41. You don’t need to know everything but don’t believe everything you are being told in the name of knowledge either.
42. What you do with the knowledge you have matters much more than collecting more knowledge. Knowledge in the hands of a biased fool becomes ammunition to fight for their group.
43. Knowledge can be gained, thinking is developed.
44. Critical thinking moves beyond the obvious short-term, the first door it opens is data and the last one is emotions. In between comes creative thinking.
45. When you remove limiting yourself only to a few available moves taught to everybody by society, you open yourself to a thousand new moves.
46. Any solution that destroys your mental health, long-term peace, or gains is not a solution but a form of self-destruction.
47. To be able to grow intellectually, one needs to be humbled constantly- that’s the only way.
48. Problems are deadly- do not take even the small ones lightly. Problem-solving should be a habit, not the course you take when you have no other option left.
49. Active, repeated problem-solving brings self-knowledge and self-awareness.
50. Running from pain is feed the fear of pain.
51. Comparing is preposterously stupid short-sighted game that ends with realizing in old age how preposterously stupid it was.