Life's Operating Manual: With the Fear and Truth Dialogues

by Tom Shadyac

Overview

Drawing from his own brush with death, a Hollywood director shares what he's learned about love, fear, and the true meaning of happiness in a series of uplifting reflections

Just about everything today comes with an operating manual—from your computer to your car, from your cell phone to your iPad. Is it possible that life comes with an operating manual as well?
 
That’s the simple but powerful premise of Tom Shadyac’s inspiring and provocative first book. Written as a series of essays and dialogues, we are invited into a conversation that is both challenging and empowering. The question is: Can we discern what is written inside this operating manual and garner the courage to live in accordance with its precepts?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781401943516
Publisher:	Hay House Inc.
Publication date:	05/01/2013
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
File size:	623 KB

About the Author

Tom Shadyac is the film director behind such blockbuster hits as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective; The Nutty Professor; Liar, Liar; Patch Adams; and Bruce Almighty. A recent brush with death compelled Tom to make his latest film, I AM, a documentary that asks some of today’s most profound thinkers two questions: "What’s wrong with the world?" and "What can we do about it?"

Table of Contents

Preface 1

Introduction: Two Wolves Inside Us 7

The World is Broken 13

The Crisis of Our Time 21

Life's Operating Manual 31

Two Masters 39

Inception 47

Our Cultural Story 55

Dividing God 63

The Indigenous Story 67

The Tyranny of Agriculture 75

Spooky Action 81

The Science of Love 89

Econo-Me 99

Laws That Are Not Laws 103

Growth Is Good 117

Alrighty Then! 127

The Lion and the Gazelle 135

Twenty-Four Dollars 141

The Richest Man in Town 153

Educa-Shun 165

The Gospel of Thomas 175

Gentle Contempt 189

Schadenfreude 195

Happiness 205

Show Me The Money! 215

Little Tommy Shadyac 223

Who Are You? 235

Epilogue 245

Endnotes 249

Permissions 259

About the Author 263