Be Focused and Flexible
BE FOCUSED AND FLEXIBLE
Know What You Want but Don’t Be Sure
H B Gelatt
“I don’t want to be a butterfly,” said the caterpillar, “because I’ve never been one.”
Stewart Edward White
The User Illusion
THE USER ILLUSION
A User Friendly Point-Of-View
H B Gelatt
“Reality is an illusion. Only illusion is real.” Don Quixote
You “see” the sun rise in the morning and the sun set at night, and it usually is a very pleasant experience. But actually, in reality, the sun never rises and never sets. Your view is an illusion --- “an erroneous perception of reality.” Seeing the sun set is a user-friendly, enjoyable experience and not a harmful erroneous perception. Furthermore, it isn’t very romantic, or understandable, to say “We went to the beach last night to watch the earth spinning on its tilted axis while rotating around the sun.”
Thinking Without the Box
THINKING WITHOUT THE BOX
Using All of Your Magical Mind
H B Gelatt
“Would you believe that so small a space could contain the images of the whole universe?” Leonardo daVinci
The brain is amazing as daVinci points out, and I believe the mind, whatever it is, is even more so. To paraphrase what someone once said about the brain, If the mind were simple enough to understand, we would be too simple to understand it.
The Certainty of Uncertainty
THE CERTAINTY OF UNCERTAINTY
Beware of Your Dogma
H B Gelatt
"The truth is that we cannot avoid uncertainty. This not-knowing is part of the adventure. It is also what makes us afraid.' Pema Chodron
Rules of the Road Never Traveled
RULES OF THE ROAD NEVER TRAVELED
No One Has Been to Your Future
H B Gelatt
Two roads diverged in a wood
And I took the one less traveled
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
