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
