Feed Your Head: Things I KNOW, but need to LEARN

[athelind]

Pessimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
So is optimism.

-- distilled from Robert Anton Wilson,
"Ten Good Reasons to Get Out of Bed in the Morning".

My thinking is broken. I've assimilated unhealthy memes.

Taking control of my life means, first and foremost, taking control of my head.

Re-Reading List:

• Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminati Papers
  
• S.I. Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action
  
• R. Buckminster Fuller:
  • Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
    
  • Utopia or Oblivion
    
  • Ideas and Integrities
    
  • Critical Path (Have I actually read this, or has it just been sitting on my shelf for years?)
• Sun Bear, The Path of Power
  
• Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity
  
• Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
  
• Richard Bach:
  • Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
    
  • Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Hush. It's my metaprogramming list.)