Posts Tagged ‘perception’

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” (Zig Ziglar)

Why is it that some people seem to be successful in every way while others fail doing the most basic things? What separates successful people from the unsuccessful?

Of course, there are some different factors, but I truly believe that a positive attitude works wonders with regard to your overall success. And I got some good reasons to believe that:
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“Bless the present.” is one of the basic precepts of Huna, an ancient Hawaiian philosophy. I’m not saying that I agree about everything with this philosophy but this very precept is really powerful. It can certainly add quality to your life. So I’ll tell you my own way of enjoying and intensifying the present moment, my own way of blessing the present.

Future and Present

It’s important to direct your future in some way. You can make tomorrow’s present moments much more pleasurable if you set the right goals and go after them with some self-discipline. But after all, the present moment is the only thing you got. Now is the only time you’re experiencing.
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This theory is crazy. So be prepared. Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about reality, perception and models of the world. One thought lead to the other and suddendly I found myself thinking about this really obscure idea:

Could I possibly be a brain, wired to another brain, the “antibrain”?

Like two computers. Linked together. Think of it as two computers sending information to each other. The antibrain and me, both of us are computers. I play the role of the user and send data to the antibrain, which runs a world simulation. The user interface could be something like synapses of my brain. It doesn’t even need to be something like synapses, as the antibrain creates everything I consider to be real and I can’t perceive anything else. I could be a mere sophisticated computer as well, still thinking that I’m a human being. God is the allmighty programmer who hopefully pays the bills for my power supply.
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