“So the show was really the final stage in my personal development, and then the book I think of as my, sort of, ‘exit interview’ from the show.” “So eventually I just started reading about it, because I thought, ‘Well, there’s been a bunch of people who are really smart over the last several thousand years who spent their lives writing guides for how to do good things….’ Then, when I had the idea for ‘The Good Place,’ I realized that I couldn’t actually execute that show properly unless I really knew what I was talking about,” Schur said. “Then, as I grew up and lived an adult life, I found myself occasionally in some very complicated, weird grown-up situations where I had some kind of dispute with someone… and if I blew it, I would feel like, ‘I wish I had known before this some theory that could have helped me make a better decision.’” I always wanted to know what the rules were, and I wanted to make sure I was following them,” said Schur. “As a kid, I was extremely concerned with rules.
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