Creative Individuals Tend To Be Smart, Yet

Control Of Consciousness Determines The Quality Of Life.

A Thoroughly Socialized Person Is One Who Desires Only The Rewards That Others Around Him Have Agreed He Should Long For - Rewards Often Grafted Onto Genetically Programmed Desires.a Person Who Cannot Override Genetic Instructions When Necessary Is Always Vulnerable..the Solution Is To Gradually Become Free Of Societal Rewards And Learn How To Substitute For Them Rewards That Are Under One's Own Powers.

The Solution Is To Gradually Become Free Of Societal Rewards And Learn How To Substitute For Them Rewards That Are Under One's Own Powers. This Is Not To Say That We Should Abandon Every Goal Endorsed By Society; Rather, It Means That, In Addition To Or Instead Of The Goals Others Use To Bribe Us With, We Develop A Set Of Our Own.

..such Practices And Beliefs, Which Interfere With Happiness, Are Neither Inevitable Nor Necessary; They Evolved By Chance, As A Result Of Random Responses To Accidental Conditions. But Once They Become Part Of The Norms And Habits Of A Culture, People Assume That This Is How Things Must Be; They Come To Believe They Have No Other Options.

The Task Is To Learn How To Enjoy Everyday Life Without Diminishing Other People's Chances To Enjoy Theirs.