Embrace urgency, detachment, and self-interest
The Law of Repulsion: A Contrary Approach to Self-Help
“Not my monkeys” and other strategic disengagement aphorisms
The Law of Repulsion: A Contrary Approach to Self-Help
Dr. Sydney Wesley Schell, Th.D, Ed.D, PhD, PsyD
ᵖʰⁱˡᵒˢᵒᵖʰᵉʳ * ᵖˢʸᶜʰⁱᵃᵗʳⁱˢᵗ * ᶜᵒⁿᵗʳᵃʳⁱᵃⁿ * ʳᵉⁿᵃⁱˢˢᵃⁿᶜᵉ ᵐᵃⁿ * ᵐᵒⁿᵏᵉʸ ᵇʳᵉᵉᵈᵉʳ
Bio (inside cover)
Dr. Sydney Wesley Schell launched his career as a visionary thinker with his thesis adaptation from his first of three PhDs, Getting to No: The Affirmation of the Negative, which became a New York Times Best Seller. Time Magazine dubbed him “the most popular contrarian in the world — a hip, liberal Jordan Peterson.”
Schell recently wrapped up a sold-out 21-night residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas, where standing-room-only crowds watched him think. During his final three shows, he projected his laptop onto the 16,000-pixel screen and wrote this book in real time.
While earning his second of three PhDs at Oxford, he authored a study (self-reported) in which he was the only member of the Oxford Bullingdon Club to register more than 3.5 standard deviations above…