Introduction

Welcome to The Rules of Everything. It’s a pretty grand sounding title, eh? So… everything? OK, these aren’t all the Rules there ever are or could be, but they do cover pretty much every area of life – your life, my life, everyone’s life.

Rules? What are Rules with a capital R? Well, nearly 20 years ago I wrote a book called The Rules of Work, which covered 100 or so of the most important unwritten Rules that are essential for your career, but no one tells you. Attitudes and mindsets you need to follow. I’m one of life’s people watchers and these were all principles I’d observed during my working life, and which I’d copied successfully myself. Eventually I left the full-time corporate world to pursue other things, including writing. ...

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