Other Things Equal, A Life Filled With

We Can Transform Reality To The Extent That We Influence What Happens In Consciousness And Thus Free Ourselves From The Threats And Blandishments Of The Outside World.

Most Of Us Become So Rigidly Fixed In The Ruts Carved Out By Genetic Programming And Social Conditioning That We Ignore The Options Of Choosing Any Other Course Of Action. Living Exclusively By Genetic And Social Instructions Is Fine As Long As Everything Goes Well. But The Moment Bioloical Or Social Goals Are Frustrated- Which In The Long Run Is Inevitable - A Person Must Formulate New Goals, And Create A New Flow Activity For Himself, Or Else He Will Always Waste His Energies In Inner Turmoil.

Today Many American Corporations Spend A Great Deal Of Money And Time Trying To Increase The Originality Of Their Employees, Hoping Thereby To Get A Competitive Edge In The Marketplace. But Such Programs Make No Difference Unless Management Also Learns To Recognize The Valuable Ideas Among The Many Novel Ones, And Then Finds Ways Of Implementing Them.

The Rules Themselves Are Clear Enough, And Within Everyone’s Reach. But Many Forces, Both Within Ourselves And In The Environment, Stand In The Way. It Is A Little Like Trying To Lose Weight: Everyone Knows What It Takes, Everyone Wants To Do It, Yet It Is Next To Impossible For So Many.

For Original Ideas To Come About, You Have To Let Them Percolate Under The Level Of Consciousness In A Place Where We Have No Way To Make Them Obey Our Own Desires Or Our Own Direction. Their Random Combinations Are Driven By Forces We Don't Know About.