And you can save the world; you can make everything better — including and especially for you. If you believe you can do it. Which you will believe, if you understand why and how you can do it. Which you will understand, if you’re aware of everything — and how it all works. And you will be aware of it all, if you choose to keep on reading this simple fun book that’s all about you. Because Life Stands Explained is the book that explains everything — in a way, by the way, that is both childishly scientific and scientifically childish. All of which is to say, in a slightly different way: This is a book about saving the world, which most people would agree is a serious matter. And it’s about simple fun, which hardly anyone takes seriously. It’s also scientific, and about science — a serious subject of the serious-minded. And it’s about childishness, and is childish — which is the opposite of ‘serious’ to serious people, and often quite seriously annoys them.

All of this may well seem like a paradox because . . . well, it is all a paradox. Which makes sense, in a sense, because even though a paradox doesn’t make sense, this is meant to be a sensible book while at the same time all about paradox. Make sense? Probably not! Although everything is a paradox — if you look at it all in a certain way. And this is paradoxical book about everything, and looking at it all a certain way.