I love this quote from the new James Patterson book, but this is the one that stands out to me: “We are in the world, not of the world; we are of the world, not of the world.” In other words, the way that we think, the way that we react, the way that we behave, the way that we act, the way that we make decisions – this is our world. This is who we are. This is what we do.
As much as we may want to make generalizations about the way people act or react, we should always be aware that they are still just thoughts. Like me, you, and most people, we are a product of our environment. So you can be 100% sure that you are still a person and not a thought.
The difference is we can also take action. You can be 100 sure that you are not an action. You can be 100 sure that you are not a thought. You can be 100 sure that you are not even a decision. You can be 100 sure that you are not a decision. You can be 100 sure that you are not a thought. You can be 100 sure that you are not an action. You can be 100 sure that you are not a thought.
I can be 100 sure that I am not a thought. I can be 100 sure that I am not an action. I can be 100 sure that I am not a decision. I can be 100 sure that I am not a thought. I can be 100 sure that I am not a decision. I can be 100 sure that I am not a thought. I can be 100 sure that I am not a decision.
Here we go again. We’re back in the real world. We’re making generalizations. We’re making generalizations about people because we’ve been looking at things in a superficial way. We’ve been looking for similarities, and we think we have found some of them. But then again, we don’t really know what we’ve found.
When we first started thinking about how we could go about generalizing and then analyzing our thoughts, we were so convinced that we were doing it the right way. We were so convinced that we knew what was going on, that we were making generalizations about people that were all based on observation. But as we made more and more generalizations about people, we started to realize that we were making generalizations based on what we did and didn’t know.
So what we really need to do here is to start thinking of generalizations as starting points. We can start with the most basic generalizations about people (and this is the only way we will get better at generalizing) and then move on to more complex thoughts, and then deeper thoughts, and then finally make some generalizations about things, like the way we think about generalizations.
We can start by making generalizations about people. People are basically just the same as any other living object, for all we know, and that’s why we are all unique creatures. We all have strengths, weaknesses, and tendencies. And we all have the power to alter that. But the biggest question that we have is whether or not we can alter the way we think about ourselves in the future. We can’t. We can’t make ourselves better.
Some people think that they can, and others think that they can’t. The truth is that we don’t know. We can study the way we think about ourselves, and even the way we think about others, and we can try to find patterns that support the idea that we are all unique. But we cant prove that we are the same and that we are stronger, because we don’t know.
There’s not much more we can say about what we are capable of doing. We can use our imagination and think about what we are capable of accomplishing, but we cant change the way we think. We can try to fight against the idea that we are the same and different from others, but we cant prove that we are or that we are better.
