Don't Listen to Your Elders: A Field Guide to Bad Advice

By Allen Anderson

"Everything you know is wrong. At least, the advice your elders gave you."
For generations, the same wisdom has been passed down with
absolute confidence, at dinner tables, in locker rooms, at
weddings, and on motivational posters. Nobody questioned it.
Nobody checked. It rhymed, so it must be true.
- Why "blood is thicker than water" means the
exact opposite of what you think
- The Nobel Prize-winning research that proves
money can buy happiness
- What Nietzsche was doing when he wrote
"what doesn't kill you makes you stronger"
- Why Shakespeare put "neither a borrower
nor a lender be" in the mouth of a fool
- The proverb that directly contradicts itself,
and fifteen others just like it
The elders meant well.
They were just working with incomplete information.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H517B6K7
• ISBN13: 9798181264038
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"