How to Be Perfect The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

He now has a new book, How to Be Perfect, The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question.

And you bring up in this book so many things that I've thought about and I'm an immoral man.

You take them through these ethical questions and you talk about you're tipping at a Starbucks, but you want to see the person, the barista to see you give the tip.

So the last thing that I wrote in the book, the last chapter in the book is about apologizing.

The example that I give in the book is Michael Jordan where legendarily the hardest working, the most competitive guy, right?

I bet Mike Schur's book, How to Be Perfect, would tell us the moral answer to this question.

Perhaps we should ask him.

I bet Mike Schur's book, How to Be Perfect, would tell us the moral answer to this question.

It's a book about how hard it is to be a good person and how we can use ethics and moral philosophy to try not to screw up all the time, but in a funny way, not like in a homework way.

The basic idea was to explain all the stuff I learned for the good place without giving everyone a headache.

Do I Have to Return My Shopping Cart to the Shopping Cart Rack Thingy?

As someone who worries that a deep dive into morality will ruin my fun and problematic life, I was certain this book wouldn't be for me, boy was I wrong. It's so brilliant and funny and warmly written, you don't realize you're becoming a better person just by reading it.

It's essentially a...show about what it means to be a good person and...I thought I had this thought while I was researching it which was that these people have such good ideas for how to be better people...but their writing is so tortured and boring that no one wants to read it...so maybe I could write a version where I sort of try to explain as best as I can what their theories are but in a way that doesn't give you a tension headache and make you sleepy.

It's a book about how hard it is to be a good person and how we can use ethics and moral philosophy to try not to screw up all the time, but in a funny way, not like in a homework way.

The basic idea was to explain all the stuff I learned for the good place without giving everyone a headache.

I started reading it, and I can't stop. I'm like binging a book.

Same. I love it. I couldn't put it down. I was reading it last night. This morning, I was like, I want to read more. I woke up thinking about it.

Mike is such an amazing writer...he takes this conversation of morality and he makes it funny and interesting and relatable.

He was a producer and writer on The Office and he's also written a book on moral philosophy called how to be perfect Mike is a huge fan of the power broker

He is also the author of How To Be Perfect, the correct answer to every moral question which is a phenomenal title.

And the first one is on the far absurd end of the spectrum which is, is it kosher to punch my best friend in the face right now?

And I was like, no, I'm asking it because of how absurd it is. Because it's so obviously the answer is no.

In the first four chapters I ask silly questions like that because I'm trying to just get out the basic nuts and bolts of the big picture theory.

The next question in the book how to be perfect one of the great book names of all time is about returning your shopping cart in the parking lot because it would be a pain to walk across the parking lot and put it back yeah that has been a question of I've had ever since I first encountered this problem.

I loved it when I read it as a galley. I bought copies. We now carry in The Pain in Porch. You should check it out.

I don't add a lot to the philosophy section so this is as high a praise as I can give a book.

I thought it really interesting and then I really enjoyed this conversation.

Check out his new book How to Be Perfect, the Correct Answer to Every Moral Question. You can pick that up at the Pain in Porch or anywhere books are sold, sure the audiobook is great.