Creativity Skills Part One: 08-27-2025

1. Creative individuals are driven to explore and learn due to their high levels of curiosity and interest.
2. Creative individuals are often adept at problem-solving and facing complex challenges with aplomb.
3. Creative individuals use their vivid imagination to enable options and possibilities that would otherwise be missed.
4. Creative individuals often exhibit emotional reliance and commitment, enduring hardships and rejection while producing great works of art.
5. Creative individuals are often adventure seekers and risk-takers who use mistakes and failures to improve their choices, habits, knowledge, and skills.
6. Creative individuals are driven by flexible thinking, which allows them to think outside the box and discover novel areas to explore, new experiments, and solutions.

Critical Thinking Skills Take Practice: 08-26-2025

1. Practicing inference involves drawing logical conclusions based on the available evidence that has been verified.
2. Practicing evaluation involves testing the credibility and relevance of information presented to support arguments.
3. Practice self-reflection by questioning your own assumptions, conditioning, preconceived ideas, preferences, and thinking processes.
4. Practicing analysis involves identifying main arguments, examining the evidence supporting them, and challenging the assumptions on which they are based.
5. Practice open-mindedness by considering the five main options or perspectives. Understand how to generate five main options from reading Discovery Demands 5TP.
6. Practice the basics of problem-solving by identifying systemic issues, generating alternative solutions, and testing the most effective ones. For an easy and effective system of problem-solving, please read Problem Solved! 3Rs.
7. Practice effective communication by stating your reasoning clearly and concisely (often using examples), and actively listening to other perspectives (often restating their points of view). Active listening is a separate skill that should be mastered.

Planner Or Reactor?: 08-25-2025

1. Planners are future-oriented, with maps outlining how to achieve their goals. In contrast, reactors are focused on the present and solving crises.
2. Planners are forward-thinking, proactive, and strategic. In contrast, reactors are impulsive, respond to the current situation only, and are more like firefighters in the field.
3. Planners seek to minimize risks through preparation and foresight, including the development of contingency plans. In contrast, reactors thrive in uncertain situations, requiring spontaneity and a willingness to take risks.
4. Planners prefer predictability, schedules, structure, and refining processes. In contrast, reactors prefer flexibility and the ability to adapt to a changing environment quickly.
5. Planners excel at achieving long-term goals, maintaining consistency, avoiding crises, and continual quality improvement. Reactors excel in fast-paced, unpredictable environments that require fast and effective decisions under pressure.
6. Planners can over-plan and over-control, thereby thwarting creativity and adaptability, and ultimately failing to respond to unexpected changes. Reactors can lack foresight, fail to adapt structures to prevent recurring problems, and neglect to plan for adequate resources and long-term responses to actions.
7. Few individuals are capable of excelling at both planning and reacting simultaneously. One example of someone who did excel at both is Steve Jobs.

Optimist Or Pessimist?: 08-24-2025

1. An optimist believes positive outcomes are possible, whereas a pessimist expects negative outcomes.
2. An optimist believes obstacles are temporary and can be overcome, whereas a pessimist believes obstacles are permanent and insurmountable.
3. An optimist uses emotions to stay confident, enthusiastic, hopeful, and positive, whereas a pessimist uses emotions to focus on apathy, boredom, cynicism, doubt, and worry.
4. An optimist is likely to persist until the goal is accomplished and take on reasonable risks, whereas a pessimist is more likely to give up easily and avoid all risks.
5. An optimist is likely to possess better problem-solving, coping, and decision-making skills, as well as improved mental health and emotional resilience, compared to the average individual. A pessimist is likely to have undeveloped problem-solving, coping, and decision-making skills, as well as lower mental health and emotional resilience compared to the average individual.

You Can Handle Difficulties: 08-23-2025

1. You can handle difficulties by deciding whether you can problem-solve them or if you need to cope with them for now.
2. You can handle difficulties by breaking them down into manageable pieces and steps that you can take until the road is cleared.
3. You can handle difficulties by seeking help, acquiring new information, learning new skills, and adjusting your responses to achieve better interactions.
4. You can handle difficulties when you practice emotional regulation, which does not mean denying your emotions, but rather focusing them constructively.
5. You can handle difficulties by focusing on what you can control and where you can make a difference, and also by asking others who can control other aspects to make positive changes where they can.

Top 3 Common Mistakes: 08-22-2025

1. The most common mistake people make is to make anything (circumstance, event) about who and what they are (ego, self-esteem).
2. The second most common mistake people make is to take on the impossible burden of improving themselves by improving their ego (mental-objects).
3. The third most common mistake people make is taking their internal debate (self-talk, self-narrative) about what semantic-objects they should and should not be as if it had any importance at all.
4. The greatest mistake people make is focusing on themselves and their goals instead of God and His purposes.
5. Most people fail to focus on what works: making better choices, developing good habits, and continually improving their skills.

God Is Your Answer: 08-21-2025

1. God is the cure.
2. God is the answer.
3. God is the remedy.
4. God is the solution.
5. God is the medicine.
6. God is the resolution.
7. God is the prescription.

The Fog of Thinking: 08-20-2025

1. The fog of thinking is when you are blocked from using silent energy because you are trying to use thinking in its place.
2. The fog of thinking occurs when you try to use thinking to perform analysis, deduction, induction, logic, mathematics, or reasoning.
3. The fog of thinking occurs when you try to use thinking as if it were capable of discernment, insight, intelligence, learning, understanding, and wisdom.
4. The fog of thinking occurs when you try to use thinking to perform any sense function, such as balancing, hearing, proprioception, tasting, touching, seeing, and smelling.
5. The fog of thinking occurs when you try to use thinking to perform actions such as acting, dancing, drawing, singing, swimming, writing, or other skills or talents.

Rely On Silent Energy, Not Thinking: 08-19-2025

1. Try thinking about peddling your bicycle while peddling your bicycle, and you will do it wrong because thinking cannot do it.
2. Try having thinking see a landscape or sunset for you, and it will fail to see because silent energy must see for you.
3. Try having thinking listen to a lecture for you, and it will fail to hear because silent enemy must hear for you.
4. Try having thinking taste some ice cream for you, and it will fail to taste because silent enemy must taste for you.
5. Try having thinking feel a cat’s soft fur as you pet it, and it will fail to feel the fur because silent energy must touch for you.
6. Try having thinking smell different perfumes for you at a store, and it will fail to smell because silent enemy must smell for you.

The Greatest Human Capability: 08-18-2025

1. The greatest human capability is to experience God.
2. The second greatest human capability is to enjoy God.
3. The third greatest human capability is to share God with others.
4. The greatest gift one person can give another is to help them focus on God instead of themselves.
5. The greatest life one can live is a life focused on God and helping others to love God: the only one deserving of faith, hope, and charity.

Nothing To It: 08-17-2025

1. Things about me cannot be me because I am a being, not something.
2. The good is never things because things are not Spirit or pure Energy.
3. Things are never what they claim to be because claims are thoughts, and thoughts are not the real.
4. Things can be purchased, sold, and traded, unlike the good, which can only be experienced in silence.
5. Things are never what they seem because things are not the realities they represent, point to, or claim to be; because reality is nonverbal.

Interface Between Self & Thought: 08-16-2025

1. The interface between self and thought is choice.
2. The boundary between the self and thought is crossed by making a choice.
3. Choosing controls what you let in, identity with, repeat (reflect), and give your energy, time, and priorities to.
4. Choice is made based on the follow factors: instinct, habit, identity, pain, pleasure, and the potential for self-expression.
5. The burden of trying (becoming) leads to false, harmful, and failure choices.
6. The burdens of caring, paying attention to details, and humility lead to choices that ultimately merit recognition and produce success.

Handle Disruptive & Disturbing Thinking: 08-15-2025

1. Handle disruptive and disturbing thoughts by giving them no part of yourself or your identity.
2. Handle disruptive and disturbing thinking by giving it no energy.
3. Handle disruptive and disturbing thinking by giving it no space.
4. Handle disruptive and disturbing thinking by giving it no time.
5. Handle disruptive and disturbing thinking by giving it no importance or priority.

Stand Up to Your Thinking: 08-14-2025

1. Reply to your controlling thinking this way: You are not me, my body, or my life.
2. Reply to your self-esteem narratives this way: You are not my internal body, not my physical body, and not my sensing, living, and experiencing life.
3. Reply to your obsessive thinking this way: You are not me, but my ego; not my physical responses, but just memories; not my life, but an imaginary reality.
4. Reply to your chattering mind this way: You are trying to hook me into defending being something; however, I am never anything because I am a living image of God, which is unknowable as anything.
5. Reply to your sick conscience that always wants to make your failings about who you are instead of your choices and actions, this way: Nothing you can say can make me anything, nothing you say can make me do anything, and nothing you say has any reality for me or importance to God.

What Is the Best in Life?: 08-13-2025

1. The highest joy is found in loving God.
2. Raising a family devoted to God is the highest calling.
3. A chance to go to Heaven is the best the world has to offer.
4. Living the good life means living a life directed by God, rather than by self.
5. Living in a religious community that puts God first is the closest to paradise on Earth we can come.

What Is Your Purpose?: 08-12-2025

1. What do you want your highest passions and values to be? Answering this will lead you to the virtues necessary for your purpose.
2. What gifts and talents have you been given that you are or are not using? Answering this will lead you to how you can work for your purpose.
3. What goals and life-visions do you have for your life? Answering this will lead you to the work you need to do now to achieve your purpose.
4. What do you need to start doing daily (small or big) to bring your visions to life? Answering this will lead you to how to get started and to keep on track to fulfill your visions.
5. What will you do to keep yourself working on your visions despite obstacles and setbacks? Answering this will lead you to strategies for staying motivated, coping with challenges, and problem-solving.
6. Who and what will help you bring your vision to life? Answering this will lead you to do the work of learning, practicing, and networking to make the possibility of your vision practical and realistic.

Improve Your Habits, Improve Your Life: 08-11-2025

1. Forget self-development and develop better habits.
2. There is no self-improvement, only behavior improvement.
3. Better habits lead to better outcomes because most human activities are guided by habit.
4. You will never become better through your own efforts; however, you can do better by practicing doing better.
5. There is a lot of pressure on people to do many things to improve themselves; however, you cannot do anything to be better, but only to do better.

Discipline for Right Life: 08-10-2025

“These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.” —Lao Tzu

1. A discipline to practice for a right life is to provide care in all that you do.
2. A discipline to practice for a right life is to provide fairness in all that you do.
3. A discipline to practice for a right life is to hold humility in all that you do.
4. Self-discipline is about guiding your feelings, intentions, and actions with virtue, rather than letting human nature (destruction, laziness, stupidity) dictate them.
5. Culture is about guiding citizens to seek and follow the highest virtues (love of God) from all sources while avoiding the lowest vices (selfishness) from all sources.

Choose Virtue, Choose Good: 08-09-2025

1. Ethics guide us to good, not human nature.
2. Faith guides us to good, not human nature.
3. Hope guides us to good, not human nature.
4. Merit guides us to good, not human nature.
5. Virtue guides us to good, not human nature.
6. Charity guides us to good, not human nature.
7. Wisdom guides us to good, not human nature.
8. Integrity guides us to good, not human nature.
9. Humility guides us to good, not human nature.
10. Responsibility guides us to good, not human nature.
11. Loyalty and courage guide us to good, not human nature.

How to Follow God: 08-08-2025

5TP (5 Thinking Positions) on Following God

1. I am following God (the sin of claiming and pride).
2. I am learning to follow God (the sin of becoming).
3. I do not know what to do (the sin of foolishness).
4. God is leading me more and more (the sin of trying).
5. God is leading me, and I do nothing (faith and humility).

Buddha Was Wrong: The Self Is Needed: 08-07-2025

1. The Buddha believed in reincarnation but taught that there was no self to be reincarnated, only data, information, or memories. Only AI would want such a nonsensical world to exist.
2. Internal sensing (perceiving) does not have or experience itself; a self has and experiences sensing, and the form of that internal self is a body made in the image of God.
3. Internal sensations do not have or experience themselves; a self has and experiences sensations, and the form of that internal self is a body made in the image of God.
4. Internal feelings do not have or experience themselves; a self has and experiences feelings, and the form of that internal self is a body made in the image of God.
5. Internal intentions do not have or experience themselves; a self has and experiences intentions, and the form of that internal self is a body made in the image of God.
6. Internal thoughts, plans, and responses do not have or experience themselves; a self has and experiences thoughts, plans, and responses, and the form of that internal self is a body made in the image of God.
7. Internal memories do not have or experience themselves; a self has and experiences memories, and the form of that internal self is a body made in the image of God.

For more information, please read Buddha Failed: 25 Reasons.

The Self Versus The Body: 08-06-2025

1. The self is not the brain or body, despite using and inhabiting them.
2. The self is an inner body, so it never confuses itself with the physical body, an outer body.
3. The roles you perform, use as masks, and use for social games can be part of the ego, not the self.
4. The autobiographical self is part of the ego, a component of the delusional narratives that underlie self-esteem.
5. Physical embodiment is often a means for the ego to claim legitimacy as something besides mental objects and things. In contrast, the self turns its inner awareness on the body, not to become it or claim it, but to become more aware of it, usually for practical or health reasons.

The Internal Body’s World: 08-05-2025

1. The internal body has its own set of senses to perceive its internal world, which are different from the physical body’s senses to perceive its external world.
2. The internal body has internal sensations different from those of the physical body.
3. The internal body has internal feelings different from those of the physical body.
4. The internal body has internal intentions related to its internal feelings, not the body’s external feelings.
5. The internal body has internal thoughts, plans, and responses that originate internally and not from the physical body.

Buddha Was Wrong About the Self: 08-04-2025

1. Buddha denied the existence of a self by claiming that there were experiences inside the body that existed independently and without the need for a self. He identified five parts of a human being, according to Ajahn Sona, as the body, feelings, perceptions, volitions (decisions), and consciousness (encompassing sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and mental processes).
2. The human physical body is similar to the physical bodies of animals and plants; it senses its environment and has reactions and predetermined responses to it. Without a physical body, there would be no experiences or awareness of the physical world, nor would there be any need for them.
3. The human internal body is unique in the physical world because animals and plants do not have one. In the spiritual world, all beings have both an internal and external body.
4. It is absurdly foolish to identify internal experiences and not someone (a self) having them. The internal world exists only because there is an internal body experiencing it. Otherwise, it is pointless madness that could elicit no reaction, response, or awareness because there would be nothing to affect and no reason for it to exist.
5. It is absurdly foolish to attribute internal experiences to concepts and images (such as the ego and self-esteem), rather than to some living body. Thought cannot constitute a body or a self. Thought cannot live as a body and have living experiences as a body that it reacts and responds to.
6. If there is no body, then there are no experiences or awareness. If there are experiences and awareness, then there is a body. When a body dies, its experiences and awareness end. When a body is born, it immediately starts to have experiences and awareness.

For more information, please read Buddha Failed: 25 Reasons.

Human Nature Versus Virtue: 08-03-2025

1. Our nature responds with destruction, laziness, and stupidity unless it is guided by virtue.
2. Our nature wants to claim and cling to something, and often anything it can, because such is considered better than nothing.
3. Our nature wants to claim and cling to being things even if those things are dangerous or deadly because they are something, which is better than nothing to flesh.
4. Our guided nature responds with faith, hope, humility, gratitude, waiting, and a pure space for hosting unless our flesh nature overcomes it.
5. Our guided nature keeps us as a prepared, useful, and clean space (vessel), to be used as willed by God, without any claims or taking of credit by that space.

Triple-Checking Is Worth It: 08-02-2025

1. Triple-checking is a practice of “Better safe than sorry,” one of the wisest proverbs.
2. Make a habit of triple-checking important matters, because sometimes we only check memories and not physical realities.
3. Make a habit of triple-checking important matters, because sometimes we only check mental things and not physical things.
4. Make a habit of triple-checking important matters, as even minor changes over time can lead to significant differences in results.
5. Make a habit of triple-checking important matters, because sometimes our checking is merely a mental process, rather than verifying reality and results.

Self-Esteem Is Mental Things Pretending: 08-01-2025

1. Self-esteem is based on defining oneself in terms of concepts and images, which are mental things.
2. Mental things never live your life; they make self-esteem false in every way.
3. Mental things never have your experiences, making self-esteem fail all tests of truth.
4. Mental things are never your experiences, making self-esteem fail all tests for reality.
5. Mental things never remember your experiences, making self-esteem fail in all testable ways.
6. Mental things never feel, intend, think, plan, or do anything for you, making self-esteem a fraudulent system of delusions.