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Knowing Right And Wrong Humans though expect to learn the rules… to understand right and wrong… and then never deviate off track. To just mindlessly go through life, reach the destination and everything will be fine. When we do drift off track we think it is a calamity and we’re going to be condemned forever. Its never too late to get back on track. The nature of life is to throw us off track. We are not supposed to be Passengers through life, we are supposed to be Pilot’s continually adjusting to get back on track. The difference is that there is no final destination… just the direction we are traveling in. Not only are your actions mostly chosen by your Operating System, but your Perceptual Filters are also set to support the Operating System. The job of your Operating System is to minimize the mental energy you have to spend. It does something called Satisficing. What this means is that rather than trying to be perfectly accurate, it compromises accuracy in order to cover more ground. It does this by as much as it can making what you see match with what you believe. You know how Politicians use facts and situations to emphasize their case. Even if they are taken completely out of context. This is exactly what your Perceptual Filters do. They reflect back to you as much as they can what you believe. It is for this reason that arguments are generally useless in getting other people to see things your way. Whatever evidence you use, they will see it through their perspective. You know how some people just can’t see what you are telling them. It doesn’t matter how much you explain or how many ways you try to tell them. This is because they literally can’t see it fitting into their Operating System. To believe something, there are certain assumptions and supporting beliefs that have to be there for it to slot in. Otherwise the information just falls flat and just gets stored under miscellaneous junk. It’s a bit like giving someone an ornament and without having any shelves or cabinets to display it in. I have a theory along these lines. I believe that when people read a book that reflects the beliefs and understanding they already have… they think it’s good. If it articulates what they were thinking, but hadn’t ever put it together… they think it’s great. If it has beliefs they held a long time ago… or beliefs too far advanced… in other words if it doesn’t fit in with the stage they’re at… they don’t like it. Whatever we believe to be good; is good because that is the way that makes sense given our entire Operating System. Equally whatever we believe to be bad, right, or wrong and so on all depends on our Operating System. The problem with this is that we almost always have a false view of how things are. Life is creating change in every second, yet our Operating System is showing us as constant a world as it can get away with. It is the extent of the difference between our Operating System and reality that determines the extent of the stress or happiness we experience. In the following chapters we will discuss how the operating system is created and how this interacts with what happens in your life to create the emotions you feel. Next: Luck And Fortune |