Life’s Manual

Answering the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything

My Junior Year, I read “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”.

I wanted to know what other people had been taught by their fathers.

My senior year, I read “Life 101”. Preparing for adulthood, I wanted to know all fundamentals before I “flew the coop”.

I spent years reading books that might give me the fundamental knowledge that I intuitively felt that I had missed as a child.

I would see some adults who seemed to have “Read The Manual”.

They were secure, competent, diverse, funny…

How could I ever marry, how could I become a parent without first learning these critical skills?

I knew that I had not been parented. I felt so unprepared. Ill-equipped. Incompetent.

Where was the book: Everything to Teach Your Child and How to Prepare Them for Adulthood?

I read parenting books, I read self-help books, I read scientific text books about the human organism, I read ancient philosophical texts, I traveled through cultural anthropology, I read field manuals, business books, and vocational guides…

None of them fit the bill.

I loved the learning. I appreciate all the time and work those people put into their books.

But, none of these books considered development holistically.

None of these books claimed or attempted to be manuals which would simply guide a person from birth to maturity.

This is SOL.

The SOL cannon coordinates and condenses all the various books which address the diverse aspects of humanity.

SOL synthesizes all of these texts into a concise manual which spans the human experience.

This is not to say that SOL contains a catalog which contains the human experiences. Rather it is a Rolodex, a directory, a narrative which connects and encourages the reader to explore life and to develop themselves, within their own context while guided by the universal and inherent components that are within each of us.