yeah, power tools... or power skills?

But beware... these tools are not for everybody. If you are not up to anything, if you have no ambition, nothing to need power tools for, then power tools are not for you. Complacency and power tools don't go together... OK, I said it.

What is the difference between an article that has 'ten things to do to have a happy life' and another article that has 'power tools for a powerful life'?

Tricky question...

In the hand of a MacGyver a paper clip is a power tool to get out of a jam, or to open a handcuff. But it is not a power tool for a powerful life.

A spoon is a power tool when you only have had a fork and what you have to eat is soup... but it isn't a powerful tool for a powerful life.

A power tool for a powerful life needs to deal with the kind of skills that decide the quality of your life. Or your ability to make a living, no matter what field you are in. Your ability to learn... after all if you don't learn you cannot live a powerful life.

So it cannot be job specific, age specific, country specific.

A gun on the ice of the far north is not a power tool in Syracuse New York, where I live.

Most of the tools society offers, sadly, don't offer, don't help you to live powerfully.

Of those the most disempowering tools is positive thinking. Future based thinking. Even possibility thinking, the trademark of Landmark Education.

Disempowering is a lot like cutting your balls.

castrating you. Removing your ability to procreate.

remove the testicles of a male animal. synonyms: demasculinise, demasculinize, emasculate. ...

remove the ovaries of. synonyms: alter, neuter, spay. ...

deprive of strength or vigor. ...

edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate. ...

a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction.

Yeah, that is what the word 'disempower' means. You are left with no power. Power to be a person, power to be the boss, power to say no, power to call the shot and build a life you can love and live it powerfully.

The iphone in the hands of the youth actually disempowers. This is true even if in some hands it allows one to not even have to have a home and still make a living.

So what are these power tools I teach?

They are, and don't expect to understand them without instruction, you won't, you can't. But they are:

wrong... from IS

I

because... be cause... choice

hitting bottom

regret/hate

Warning: to be able to use these tools, like choice, you need extensive training. You need to change your worldview... or you won't get it. Knowing about them is not useful... just like knowing about flying won't make you fly.

The base worldview for humans is to see what is wrong, and either suffer from it, or try to fix it.

My hunch is that it has always been so, or at least as far as the storytellers of the Bible lived...4-5 thousand years... at least.

In the East it is more leaning towards the 'suffer but bear it', in the West it is more leaning to the reactive fixing it.

When the book The White Tiger came out about an Indian (in India) who defied the caste system and robbed and killed his way to a higher level of living: it was a sensation. Even in India it sold 200 thousand copies. 1.39 billion people... 200 thousand copies. No, it was sold to people, I say, who already lived on a higher level because of their higher caste.

So no, people in India, people in Eastern culture live in 'live IS unchangeable'... maybe wrong, but there is no way to change it.

In the West, exactly the opposite is true. People here say: it's wrong, and I'll fix it. My politician will fix it.

If I could turn it back into money, all the things I bought that didn't bring me any benefit, my expenses would be covered for a year, maybe more.

That is a lot of time I wasted, because I work for my money. Every penny of it.

For about a decade I owned a magazine that catered to adult entertainment. So I had a chance to observe. Observe the men who showered money on it, and entertainers who showered the same money on dudes who put it up their noses.

In this week's Borowitz Report Andy Borowitz says: U.S.A. the Envy of World After Ten Billion Dollars in Campaign Ads Changes Almost Nothing.

There are 53 countries, that produce less wealth in a year than was spent on advertising people wanting to have position and power in the USA.

So yeah, I am a wasteful person in the most wasteful country on Earth...

...Or is Russia in competition with military spending? I don't know the numbers, but...

I just got my order of Russian made Valerian, a sleep herbal extract. Muscle test says it's toxic. Muscle test says it was extracted with some toxic agent... I am throwing it out. If I want to poison myself, and eventually I might, I want to know exactly what kills me. Is that too much to ask for?

I just finished reading Michael Connelly's latest book, Desert Star. In it Harry Bosch ha a stash of toxic pills for the time when he won't want to live. He takes the pills out of the drawer every morning, and puts them back every night. I love the idea. Stop wasting time... appreciate it. Every day is a gift.

He finally gets his 'white whale' who got away after killing a whole family and buries them in the desert. Turns out that he made killing a habitual way of getting people's entire company... Yeah, that is one way... Not MY way... I hope it isn't yours either.

So back to wasting money:

How is it that most people value money before they make it and not afterwards? What is it that changes the value of money? Do you know?

With strippers it is clear. With murders it is clear. To me. But with you, who supposedly get your money in socially acceptable ways?

In the Moneyroots workshop this coming Saturday we'll look at the unexamined dynamic that won't allow you to fully benefit from the time and the money you spend.

Yeah, time! We waste time and energy too!

The biggest gap I see, personally, in my clients and customers is the overvaluation of money, and the underestimation of time.

Or the gap between their ambition and the desire...

The more it's taken for you to make your money, historically, the more you'll know to invest the effort to make your money work for you.

The more you respect and appreciate yourself, the more you respect your money.

You don't respect anyone, including yourself? You spend your money as if it weren't you who made it. The lack of self-respect will express itself in your spending.

That is maybe the most painful aspect of this moneyroots thing: getting to an insight that hurts.

When I was little, judging from my mother's actions, emotions and words towards me, I decided that I was utterly and completely worthless. That I was expandable. Like a paper cup after you used it.

My relationship to money reflects that.

And no matter how hard I have been working on changing that original self-evaluation, it seems that it won't go. Can't go.

And that gap between our conscious treating ourself, the things we say, the things we demand others say about us, and that early 'sentence' is still dominating our behavior with our time and our money. Probably elsewhere too.

So if it cannot be fixed, if it cannot be changed, why come to a class that digs deep to see it in all its gory glory?

The closer I got to the exact wording of that 'sentence' the better ...

What you see is what you see. What someone sees when they look at what you are looking at, likely that they will see something else.

Some two decades ago I participated in a two-hour workshop where the leader began with asking the audience what color the notepad she held in her hand was... Obviously it was white. And every moron could see that it was white.

But then she flipped it over, and now we saw her side, and it was brown cardboard... Darn...

I just learned something. I have stopped arguing then and there...

Also, depending on how you look at something, it has two, or many facets...

Like that notepad, it had a front and it had a back... Or a thing can have many, like a good nourishing, tasty dish at just the right temperature. Or like a human... many virtues, faults, many facets.

Everything has many facets, at least if you look at it from the higher paradigms.

Paradigm?

The two-facet view belongs to the ditch... it is long but narrow. The many belongs to the planes. Forests. Lakes and oceans. You don't see far, but you can go into any direction, 360 degrees in fact. The infinite belongs to the mountains, the clouds, the very high.

You can look at life, your life through any of your views... it only depends on where you live... And what you see will depend on where you look from. One view is that life is like the Valley of the Shadow of Death. Another is that life is a celebration. That it is a gift that you can grow or fritter away. Same life... different views.

But ultimately your view comes from your paradigm. The systemic, the extrinsic, or the intrinsic paradigm.

The dictionary says: A paradigm is a standard, a perspective, or a set of ideas. A paradigm is a way of looking at something.

In LINGUISTICS it is a set of linguistic items that form mutually exclusive choices in particular syntactic roles.

and another definition I found: So, a paradigm is a shared set of understandings, conceptions, interpretations, and beliefs. They are held in common by a significantly large community. It is a core way of thinking about some aspect of our world, or experience.

You don't have a lot of freedom in what paradigm you live in. You cannot even see a higher paradigm from your own. Like the fish doesn't see land. Can't imagine living, can't imagine abiding by the rules of land. And a man cannot see, cannot live in, cannot abide by the rules of the paradigm of the air.

A paradigm can be likened to a glass floor in a building. This floor and the ceiling are one-way mirrors... so you cannot see what's going on on the upper floors... And the floor is also a one-way mirror... although when you look down, at the happenings in the lower floor, you'll interpret everything by the rules of your own floor.

Each floor has its own rules, own laws, own customs. Its own worldview.

As you can see I am having a real hard time explaining... But for shortness' sake, I adapt the dictionary definition: A paradigm is a standard, perspective, or set of ideas. A paradigm is a way of looking at something.

And in this article we'll look at paradigm only from the vantage point: how many facets do things, people, events have?

In the systemic paradigm the number is two.

In the extrinsic paradigm they have plenty.

And, finally in the intrinsic paradigm the number is infinite.

Roughly eight billion people live in the systemic paradigm.

The main question in the systemic paradigm: Is it good? Is it bad?

And even though, like in a tree, you can ask about any part of the tree, the roots, the trunk, the branches, the leaves, the fruit, the question is yet the same: Is it good? Is it bad?

No chance for questions like:is it useful? does it work? does it lead to love,

I was reading a Lee Goldberg book, Fast Track, about illegal car racing in Los Angeles. (In the movie it is some German town, not Los Angeles...)

One of the drivers says: it is not how fast the car is... it is the driver that matters.

It is not how fast you can drive, it is the turns that make the winner.

It is a principle...

An object already in motion can change direction. But an object at rest cannot be easily turned into the 'right' direction.

I have been experimenting in doing Freecell both ways... and although it needs a tad more skill to win when I started randomly... it takes a lot more skills to choose a 'winning direction'... by far. And patience. And more ambition. And more everything...

Most students of mine never start.

Doing something for three days and then stopping cannot be considered starting.

And therefore most students of mine will never get to where they would like to get: having a life they love and live it powerfully.

Occasionally I get my hopes up...

One student took on a project of learning the basics of vegan cooking. Her food list was very straightforward: she can't have any animal product. Luckily her live in boy friend is the same. So she started... and then she stopped.

Start and stop is the pattern of most unsuccessful, never do well people... the ones that at least start occasionally.

I now have a student who has started. Then came a huge 'opportunity' for her to stop. A life circumstance. I was holding my breath. I was prepared to grieve... again.

But this morning she sent one of her daily reports, reports of which I hadn't seen for two weeks, and she analyzed why what she was doing in the previous three months were not what she now sees would have been taking her where she wanted to go, and now she has an opportunity to self-correct.

That takes us to the second step in every project: course correction.

When you start the project you think you know everything. But especially that the way you started will take you to the Promised Land.

Nothing is further from the truth... for anyone.

When I look at high achiever famous people, the high achievement and the fame never came from the original part of the project. It came from what the project became after several iterations.

Iteration is a good word. It means correction, basically. But correction can be correcting the direction, correcting the method, can be everything about the project... after it started.

But the methodology of iteration is looking at what seems to be working, what seems to not working, what new elements to start, what old elements to stop, and what old elements to continue. Easy and intelligent.

What you need for iteration is flexibility.

To consider the project not in the right/wrong paradigm, but in reality.

If you consider reality where things can move in a straight line, you won't allow iteration, because in the right/wrong paradigm it makes you wrong. In the lowest paradigm an intention to iterate means you have already failed... It means to you that the project is dead.

The students who wanted to learn to cook lives so fully, so deeply in the right/wrong paradigm, that she hasn't been able to see even a little bit above it. She hasn't been able to see that it is a paradigm issue that is stopping her.

Her entire identity is vested in being right and in not being wrong... In her identity she'll be dead if she is not right.

She cannot see project as a vehicle, because project, any project will go patches of 'not right'... or it is not a project. In the higher paradigms where things can be more, better, different, iteration is an indication that the project has a future, and it can succeed.

Unless she can, like the fish,

When I was really small, I remember my feet didn't reach to the floor, I remember sitting on the toilet pondering how you slap people.

To my utter surprise, when it came to doing it, I did it quite naturally. Gracefully? Probably not. But I did it. Without thinking.

It taught me something: how you do something starts with actually doing it. And then you can modify, improve, change... but you know how to do it... at least badly.

So when in last Saturday's class the students asked: but how do you do that? I demonstrated by asking her to get on her feet. She scrambled, made a lot of noise, but she did get on her feet. Then I asked her to sit down, and she did.

I said: this is how you do it: you do it.

Maybe you need to suggest to yourself to do it, like I do it in the morning: get up... and I do. But it's warm in the bed... but it's too late, I am already up, because I got up.

Life is simple when you live in reality.

A newborn baby doesn't know where nutrients will come from... they never had to do anything for it. But the moment you put the nipple in their mouth, especially if you had a drop of milk on the nipple, the child starts sucking...

That is life.

Instead of thinking about it, instead of learning about it, instead of pretending that you don't know how to do it... just do it. Badly, well, who cares!?

70% of what keeps you in Idiocracy is lack of constructive action. Constructive. Weak or inconsequential actions don't count as actions.

And 30% of what matters is the how. The how is the context, the attitude, the 'end in mind' or said another way the 'to what end?'

Sharing the space with both is the question: how long? How much? How much power you put into the action?

Even the most consequential actions done with the best attitude are inconsequential if they are not done long enough. :-(

Here is my sad conclusion: the eight billion, and you are most likely one of them, is complacent. Whatever is happening is just bothering them, but not enough to move them out of their complacency.

The average ambition, (the future they are willing and ready to work for) is 1%, while the average desire, what they want to happen, miraculously, without investing any work is 70%.

If on some level you didn't think it's possible then you'd intelligently whittle down what you want to what you have the power and the willingness to work towards.

Having high desire is the sign of low intelligence. So I didn't even have to create a measure in my Starting Point Measurements for intelligence... now we know.

Elon Musk, lately, has gone moronic. His ambition is 30%, his desire is 70%... His IQ has dropped together with his vibration.

We have the same soul correction, 34.

The difference between him and me is the fact that I know that jumps don't turn out well for me. He likes jumps... the latest one, buying Twitter did him in... for now. Can he recover? We shall see.

I have seen people recover

Ben, one of my teachers is an example. So yeah, people can recover. It takes work though. And getting, through looking in reality, that what you believe, what you do doesn't work... and through iterations, get back to the way that works.

Be careful where you look. Where you look is very important when you ask the question: does it work?

Most people don't want to work with me, study with me, because they don't want to look what they are doing, what worldview they have that doesn't work.

I understand. If you can tolerate your life the way it is... then you shouldn't.

Finding out after a year or ten that what you do and what you believe can't and won't work, and yet seeing that you are unwilling to change must be a real sobering moment.

Sleeping. They say you are supposed to sleep 7-8 hours.

But when I muscletest how much you sleep, even if you were in bed and in the dark, you only slept five hours.

Why? Because three hours of those eight you were not really sleeping, you were in a daze...

And your dazed state is not conducive to real rest, to restoration, to rejuvenation, because it is a troubled daze state.

What troubles you? Nearly everything.

But most importantly you are troubled about yourself.

The spirit, the soul bother your sleep. They try to awaken you to the fact that you are on the wrong path... that you are becoming not human. That you are giving up your right to self-determination, to free will, to everything that made you human... All that would make you human.

So you are subsisting on five hours of actual sleep... and no wonder even the remnants of intelligence are not available to you then.

So what is there to do?

Surprisingly you can take responsibility for your choice of having chosen to give up being human. Can you do it? Muscletest says 'not really', but it would settle down the spirit, settle down the soul, because if you CHOSE your path, then it is OK.

Why can't you take responsibility?

The answer will probably surprise you: you think you can to eat your cake and have it too.

Just another illusion, delusion, mirage, that you can believe is possible, given that you don't look in reality and you cannot think.

You can choose to be human with all the burden that being human means. The need to make choices, to work, to grow to feel good, to do what works... Instead of hoping that some good idea, some activator, some remedy will save you from having to do what works.

Or you can choose to live in the Matrix where nothing is real, and take full responsibility that YOU CHOSE to live there. That YOU CHOSE to give up your right to expect what doing what works would give you: feeling good about yourself, fulfillment, joy, etc.

Or, as most people do, avoid choosing. Limbo.

But whatever you choose has its consequences.

What calms down the soul, what calms down the spirit is that YOU CHOOSE. Whichever choosing option, by the way. Avoidance is not a choice.

I occasionally have to choose what is less than ideal... Right now I need to choose to accept that you are beyond my reach. Beyond where what I can do would turn the tide back.

When, before I choose, I grapple to make my choices authentically my choice. So before I choose, until I choose I have the same issue: I am in bed for eight hours, but have real sleep for only five hours.

But the moment I choose, authentically choose, the insides calm down, and I get as much sleep as the clock says I get... seven and a half hours.

Life is full of choices. We are asked to choose about 20 times a day.

You either see that you are choosing, or you don't. When you don't see it, you just go along with the tide... Do what you have always done... having the same exact results. It doesn't feel like you are choosing, but you are. About 20 times a day. Choose what to it, when to eat, when to stop. Choose to rest, to work, to read, to watch TV, to sulk, to listen, to justify, to be right, to blame, to explain, to keep on going or to stop.

Responsibility is in essence choosing the consequences of your choices... The good, the bad, and the ugly.

Responsibility is your access to power, because unless you choose the consequences, you won't see an option next time to choose the same, or to choose different.

I have chosen to live a hard life. To team up with soul and spirit to bug you if we need to. Bug you until you make a choice.

Once you make a choice we can stop bugging you. You have chosen.

If you want to enslave a man, the best and fastest way to go about it is to rob the man of his common sense, his guidance system. The feelings.

Train him to not trust his feelings.  To not even feel them. Or call them emotion names.

Train him that he can't trust his feelings. Train him that all decisions should be made by men smarter than him. And by all means, train him that he can't be trusted to made decisions about the education, the health about his children.

Train him by printing on plastic bags that they should not be put in the cradle... because a child may suffocate playing with it... Do this so the man will stop thinking for himself and start relying entirely on thing being given to him chewed and digested.

Give him the religion of positive thinking.

He will eat the enticingly packed and flavored toxic swill that makes you millions.

He will gobble up the expensive 'supplements' you give him help to lose the fat your enticingly packed and flavored toxic swill packed on him.

And when you thus destroyed him and his trust in his own common sense, you'll have for yourself the brave new world owned by the few...

That's the article. The following is only details, details from the Brave New World book.

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Soma? it's probably already being distributed in processed food...

Soma is a drug. It has three relevant meanings for the purposes of this article:

1. The plant, or the intoxicating juice of the plant, used in ancient Indian religious ceremonies. Inevitably, given the Indian tradition, the plant and its juice were personified as a god, Soma.

2. The imaginary 'ideal pleasure drug' in Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World (1932). Its chemistry and pharmacology are undefined. As described, the drug resembles a hangoverless tranquillizer or an opiate.

3. 'Soma' is the most common brand name of the muscle-relaxant carisoprodol. It was first marketed in the USA from 1955 under the brand name Miltown as an anti-anxiety agent. The 'miracle drug' of its era, Miltown was immortalized by the Rolling Stones as 'Mother's Little Helper'.

My challenge is that the enslavement work is nearly finished. 91%

I am building a ragtag team of a few who value being a person, self-determination higher than the comfort of being used as electricity producer.

If you haven't seen the Matrix or haven't seen it in a while, watch it. The reality of it should strike you, and you should see whether you'll choose being part of the ragtag team, or you'll go back to eat the 'steak' of enslavement.

My work, returning you to being a 'man', will cost you the illusion, the comfort, the pleasantness of the 'matrix'.

And I only need a few on my team.

We are re-learning how to be a man.

The first step is to learn to feel our feelings where they are: in the body. Cut them from the thoughts, the interpretation, the urge to fix it. Temporarily, so you can feel... instead of be influenced by the cultural enslaving narrative that enslaved you in the first place.

The second step is to change what you feed your brain...

Instead of pre-digested nonsense... feed your brain what will make it work again.

Last night before I fell asleep, I muscle tested the 'IQ' of many people.

The Bell Curve is the normal, natural distribution of random things in a given population... like intelligence.

The Bell Curve is symmetrical. But if you keep the standard the same, with time, the center of the curve moves to the right or to the left.

The IQ curve has been steadily moving to the left...

Meaning that the masses of people have lost or given up their right to common sense and don't think with their brain, think with the memes they heard,

What may be the most important characteristic of this low vibration, competitive paradigm is the use of 'is' when relating to things, people, or ideas.

The idea that you know is what is underlying the is-ness or this paradigm.

The idea that you know, that you can know, or anyone can know.

That things are simple. A square is a square, a circle is a circle, and your spouse is wrong. Simplistic.

Robots, AI, are more discerning, are more sensitive, are deeper than the people who live in this paradigm. The eight billion.

So when you say 'I am this or that', or when you say 'it is this or that' you are unwittingly expressing the keyword of your paradigm.

When things are straightforward to you. When you know everything. If I ask you why you are wearing what you are wearing and you instantly have an answer... then you live in the is-ness world... about a millimeter deep. But the misery is deeper than deep.

Why? Because humans are designed to be deep. To think for themselves. To see. To ponder. And ultimately to cause.

Of course the people who wrote the Bible, or Bhagavad Gita, or whatever ancient writing you want to look at, they lived in the is-ness world.

Otherwise the creation myth would be a lot more complicated, a lot more design-like.

I am an architect by training, and I can tell you: designing is a process, and one arrives to the final design through many many many iterations... The first draft is crap...

But in the is-ness world god crated this and that...

...no iterations, no design, no thought, random, capricious, and shallow. Like the people in the is-ness paradigm.

I have a student who has a hard time understanding that interchanging one 'is' with another 'is' will still keep her in the is-ness, the judgmental right/wrong paradigm.

So when she says: this person is wrong... Then corrects it: maybe this person has a reason to do what they did... or maybe this is not wrong, just mistaken... This is exactly what she is doing.

My biggest breakthrough came from this shift.

In the original 'is' story this man put his penis in my mouth and ejaculated. I was maybe 4-5 years old. It was horrible...

Then when I was 40, in an inspired moment I decided to look at that incident from the side. I put the man and the little girl into a room that had only three walls. And where the fourth wall would be, I was standing, watching the story unfold.

It came without the sound. And the scene was completely different. It was funny, in the old silent movies way funny, where people threw cream pies on each others' faces.

So I laughed.

And then I saw that the original story can't be true. The second story can't be true either. Unless something is true from every angle you look at, it is a fabrication, an interpretation, man-made.

And if it is true about my story, then it is true everywhere...

With that insight I effectively moved life from the is-ness paradigm to the 'reality is a collective hunch at best' paradigm.

And if it is a hunch, then there is a lot of room for guessing. And whatever you guess will actually give you your mood, give you your emotions, so if you are smart enough, you'll guess what will serve your mood...

Of course to guess, instead of just making up crap, you need to look. You guess from elements you see, elements that can be interpreted in many ways. And therein lies your freedom. Although you are restrained by what is visible, but not so completely that the sum total of all is just one.

Freedom is recognizing your limitations. Whereas liberty is denying or doing away with restriction...

People who don't know the difference are mostly doing away with reality as it is a restriction. They live in a world where supposedly just wanting gets them w...

Why are all the measures in the Starting Point Measurements important?

Why would, for example, someone with more words have an advantage over someone who has fewer words?

I am going to explain it here... But judging from my core group's response, I am warning you, it will sound Greek to you. Unless, of course, you are Greek... lol.

Incomprehensible.

Why? I am going to say it, in different ways, until I find out what about the concept is conflicting with your worldview now, what about it that the ego or the mind or whatever it is that is blocking it, finds so intolerable that it won't allow you to wrap your brain around it.

My first hunch for the why is this: you are not willing to cause.

Why would that be? Isn't what you have always wanted, to have a life where you have some role, maybe a major role in how it turns out?

To my surprise most people will pretend that that is what they want, but what they really want is being GIVEN a great life.

Why? Maybe they don't trust that they can cause a great life? Or maybe it is the backwards aspect of responsibility: they don't want to consider that they caused their own misfortune, mishaps, misery. That they chose the life they have through the daily choices and through the bigger life choices.

Maybe you are one in a million and you have accepted that you caused your own misery. But still, likely, you don't know how you did it. And without knowing how to cause your happiness, that is not really a useful knowledge... in fact it makes you more miserable, because it adds guilt to the misfortune.

Even though humans CAN cause, are designed to cause, they don't know how.

Why?

The 1000s to the rescue... again.

Unless as a child you were encouraged to do projects of your own then as an adult you won't have any sense of you causing anything. And most children never have projects. They never created. They have never pursued projects of their own making.

The ones that do become billionaires.

So what happens if you are one of the eight billion who has never really learned to create, pursue, accomplish projects of your own? Can you start as an adult?

Yes. You can start. But you'll only succeed if you manage to see and handle a project as a process... not something that should happen fast.

The more your worldview is the McDonald's type, where you don't do every part of the project, you really just consume, the less you'll develop the sense that you can cause.

Also: if you forget that the context, the purpose of doing projects is to awaken your sense that you are a cause not an effect, you'll abandon the project, or do it shabbily.

Here is an example... an example that shows where you end up unless you have learned that you can cause and how.

In the Core Group I showed pictures of faces. I asked to talk about the faces. It didn't go well.

First they called them good or bad... and then, maybe, they called them an actual attitude or emotion... and then they stopped. They had nothing more to say. I, or any of the 1000 would have talked about each face for hours...

I saw that your misery is 90% due to you living on the surface, being only a consumer, never seeing deeper than the first impression. That your lack of depth reflects itself in what you call things, especially emotions, emotional states. You are shallow. Probably in everything.

Unless you learn to express, recognize, appreciate different emotional states that are around your base discontent, around your base 'the wrong that was done to you', you'll be stuck in the right/wrong paradigm.

And no surprise, in the right/wrong paradigm you cannot cause anything. Why? Because there are no dimensions.

Your worldview is invisible to you. It's like the floor you walk on... the foundation of your life.

You need to understand that your dislike of certain people makes you a moron if you also decide that THEREFORE what they say must be stupid...

Or you like how someone looks, and therefore they must be smart. Ugh.

You need to be able to tell the difference between a person, an idea, a behavior, and see them as independent from each other... That what the person says is important. To look and choose with discernment, and after consideration.

Of course 99% of humanity was never asked to think...

...was never taught to think, and this discernment and this consideration I am asking for will not land as a valid request, because you can't...

This is why in the past 3-4 days a good chunk of my followers sloughed off... unsubscribed, withdrew. They don't agree with the worldview I talk about.

I remember when I was younger I also thought that being around people who believed reality different from me were like a disease I could catch because I listened to or read what they said.

I was young. And I didn't feel safe in anything different from what I was told 'the right worldview' was.

I was a communist, or socialist, or Marxist... that was the right worldview in mid-20th century Hungary.

Worldview is like the floor you walk on. Any change in worldview makes your floor dissolve... so it's frightening. Only the mentally tough risks it... And those snowflake people who leave me and my teaching are not.

This article won't be different: it will clearly delineate one worldview from another... and we'll lose more snowflakes, I predict.

As people round the steps in the 67 step coaching program, as they begin the second cycle, some start to see new things, others keep on seeing the same things...

Some see the things from memory. Comparing. 'Knowing'. And some, a very few, from actually seeing.

Step two (in the 67 steps) introduces the idea of the Selfish Gene, and ess, the evolutionary stable strategy.

This point is where people diverge: one goes in the direction of the Tree of Knowledge, the other goes in the direction of the Tree of Life.

It is really amazing to watch them go, unaware that they went there because they are unaware of the other path.

I recognize the 'there is only one right way' view of the one who wears blinders, so they cannot look wide... they can see only where the 'already always' path lies. Their worldview.

The view of the world, the view of people... and themselves among those people in that view of the world.

I will illustrate this with their own words... but before I do, I want to set down some principles:

Naturally, unmitigated by culture, society, memes, genes like to EXPERIMENT and arrive to new evolutionary stable strategies.

Evolution, the desire for evolution is innate to the selfish genes...

Evolved species start to use the edge effect: get more out of life.

Except humans. Humans have been hindered by culture, the family, society, memes... the Tree of Knowledge. The worldview.

The 67 step coaching is a possible evolutionary journey...

...and depending on the strength of your devotion, even insistence on the Tree of Knowledge, the program will help you to evolve, or not.

Drumroll... please.

It is that simple.

Your 'fear' of stepping into new territory is a fake fear. There is no new territory for anyone, until...

In the book The Science of Getting Rich, Wallace D. Wattles teaches how to grow. He says:

Begin where you are by starting to do things in a certain way. Then you'll grow too big for that space...

Like a baby in the mother's womb.

But,