DIAGRAMMATICALLY FROM BIRTH TO A GREAT LIFE
"STUFF", SYSTEMS, BELIEFS AND THE ONLY SURE PATH

This is designed for a quick overview that pulls everything together into perspective. 

Read this as if it were a word conversation (and possibly aloud).  If there is an arrow, you could say "and then" this is the result (what follows the arrow).  Or, "Oh, I see, the vessel contains what is in the brackets below it. 


HOW WELL YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON THE "STUFF" PUT IN


You are given a "vessel":              "Stuff" is put in
                                                from "out there"
     x                 x                                                             Knowledge
      x               x              →       Primitive brain        →          to
        x            x                         "organizes" it,                  live life well
            x     x                               primitively                    (or not)
        VESSEL
    [You, higher brain
             +
    Supporting systems
  (body, primitive brain)]


Basically, if poor quality "stuff" is put in by parents and other sources out there, the knowledge to live life will be poor or missing.  It is not your fault, for you cannot have more than was "put into" your vessel.  The vessel, or analogically, your cup (YOU), is not "bad", what was put in was "bad".  This is mathematically true, absolutely, provably true.  (See No Fault.)

The problem is not YOU but the lack of or poor quality of the knowledge.  The solution, therefore, is to gain better knowledge from "out there" or from correcting the bad knowledge (via learning and also examining, thinking out, and correcting the bad knowledge - see the sidebar).

Again, how well you live life is dependent on the "stuff" put in.  That stuff determines your very life!   So...

     Bad stuff  →      Upgrade the "stuff"     →     Upgrade life
                                                                       (Happiness)
  
That's fairly simple, right? 

But you want the answer to how to do the upgrading.  Just follow what follows.


UPGRADE YOUR STUFF THESE WAYS:

Outside better resources                              →
(determined, given by others)

Outside force convinces you to "grow", so         Great knowledge
                                                                                 (wisdom)               Great
    You examine & upgrade stuff                   →            +                →    Life!!!
     (via the "processor", aka Higher Brain)             Great systems

     You self generate access to more             →
         and more good sources, learning
         throughout life


WHAT IS MEANT BY "SYSTEMS"?

"A system is a linear sequence of steps that execute over time, leading to a result."

                                           Sam Carpenter in Work The System

It looks like this:

     A       →      B       →     C         →     D     →  Result

Every result in your life came from a system!  Everything is a system!!!


The steps lead to a result.

All good steps   →  "Good" result

Bad step(s)       →   "Bad" result(s)


If you want good results in life, you'd either

1.  Design a good system ahead of time or
2.  Every time you got a bad result, you'd fix the system.

If you didn't fix it, you'd get bad results each time (virtually) and you'd have what is called "problems" (bad systems hanging around producing lots of problems. (Duh!)

Many people do not quickly fix their systems.  Consequently, they do not live good lives.


However, notice that you can look at the "path" and use your logic to go backwards.  If you get a bad results that must mean you must have a bad system.  (It doesn't mean you are "bad" or "at fault".  You just have a bad system or systems!)

     See bad result           →           a bad system! 
                             Must mean

Looking at the path going forward:

      Bad system            →    Bad result   →    Fix system!    →    Improve life!
               ↑                               ↓                
                 ←   means  ←      ←

(See Work The System, Work The Plan!  And Your Life Will Work, Guaranteed!, after you've read this piece to the end.) 


OTHER NAMES FOR SYSTEMS

A "way of proceeding" or a "procedure"
A checklist (of steps)
A method
A reading or learning sequence or a program
A belief system
Rituals, routines, practices

(Super-Principle:  Good Programs And Good Procedures - For Life To Work Well!!!)


A BELIEF IS A SYSTEM (OF THINKING)

The belief system is the source of most of our emotions, connecting directly to the emotion system.  

A belief is:   An "if...then..."

If x happens, then I will get y.

     x       →       get y

But if x happens and then y doesn't happen, that is a bad (false) belief.

     x        →    NOT get y     →        NOT true!
                                                     (bad belief)

I then have a "bad" system (of thinking).

So I just need to fix it.  (Duh!  Of course!) (Life Champions do it right away!)

But people often don't fix their false beliefs and they live not so good lives!

Simple.


"A life unexamined is not worth living".    Socrates

That means that if I don't examine and, of course, correct my beliefs, I will not live such a great life!   (To the extent people don't have corrected beliefs, life sucks!  In reverse, if life sucks one must have bad beliefs.  The suckiness of life measures the extent to which one has bad beliefs.) 

I want to live a great life, so I fix my systems and beliefs right away AND I learn life as quickly as I can, so that I will have the wisdom (= workable knowledge) to live a great life!

          Great wisdom
                  +                  →    Great Life!!!!
          Great systems
         

DO AT LEAST THIS

Read for sure the whole piece and path called The Only Sure Path To The Greatest Life - you can't get "there" (at the highest happiness) without following this path, period!