Challenge, Drop, Test, or Surrender Failing Attitudes

• We’re All Insane! Second Edition will teach you how to think better and saner.

WHAT IS AN ATTITUDE?

• An attitude can be understood as the union of similar thoughts and feelings regarding something.
• You can have global attitudes that apply to many events and situations making their effect global.
• Global attitudes can be strong enough to be considered life-scripts, life-programs, life-determinants, or control programs.

Basic List of 37 Global Attitudes

Life is a series of—

• actions to be taken.
• adventures to be lived.
• annoyances to be complained about.
• attacks to be countered.
• challenges to be overcome.
• crises to be managed.
• dangers to be avoided.
• demands to be met.
• disorders to be ordered.
• emotions to be released.
• experiences to be blamed.
• failings to be guilty for.
• fears to be managed.
• games to be won.
• hurts to be whined about.
• injuries to be damned.
• injustices to be righted.
• insults to be damned.
• jobs to be completed.
• jokes to be enjoyed.
• lessons to be learned.
• meaningless experiences to be given meaning.
• messes to be cleaned up.
• missions to be undertaken.
• mistakes to be reworked.
• moments to be felt.
• needs to be demanded.
• opportunities to be taken advantage of.
• oppressions to be escaped.
• pleasures to be savored.
• problems to be dealt with.
• puzzles to be solved.
• sensations to be sought.
• stresses to be released.
• tests to be passed.
• thoughts to be expressed.
• wrongs to be righted.

Check Yourself

• Which attitudes are guiding your life?

“Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that.” —Erich Heller, 1911-1990