The Art of Non-Conformity

A Storybook

The Art of Non-Conformity

Written and Narrated by

Chris Guillebeau

Headphones recommended Begin

Contents

i The Bridge From the prologue.
ii The Mission
iii The Five Monkeys From Chapter 1.
iv 11 Ways to Be Unremarkably Average From Chapter 1—what a safe, comfortable life looks like.
v FedEx and the Ice Storm An early memory from a fortuitous ice storm.
vi The Lottery Fantasy What you'd buy if you weren't already living it.
vii Bernard Lopez A bicycle trip across the U.S.—just because.
viii Forgiveness or permission
ix What you don't need / what you do need A comparison of two lists.
x The thesis and the manifesto A $32,000 piece of paper.
xi The Indispensable Relationship From Chapter 9—on ordering your life around what you actually want.
xii Balanced people don't change the world
xiii The Math of a Week
xiv The to-stop-doing list A short activity to save time and attention.
xv Table Mountain A life lesson.
xvi Glory Days On the danger of mistaking your past for your present.
xvii Dog food man From Chapter 8—what a stranger predicted, and how it almost lands.
xviii Yesterday or today
xix Shackleton's Flyer
xx Come join the living world
xxi Outro

21 pages · The Art of Non-Conformity