Interview Life is Linear
Life is Linear - Living is Cyclical
Why Did I Write This Book?
Fortunately, I’ve experienced living during a remarkable time in human history. Humans have discovered and harnessed technology and expanded science.
A switch turns on light, turn a lever, there’s water. Super Markets feed us year-round, sanitation and medicine protect us, motors lift, engines transport us to and from places fast and effortlessly – even to the moon.
Millions of people, mostly strangers, can share space, their ideas and opinions - with the touch on a button - that you choose from a multitude of options and opinions - for better or worse.
One of the benefits of growing older is: I’ve learned what to do with this confusion of abundance- because I’ve experienced what not to do. My purpose in writing Life is Linear, Living is Cyclical is to share those experiences and my earned knowledge to help people avoid the potholes that will inevitably occur during the experiences of living life in the 21st century.
“What is Truth?”
Truth, and how to live a good life, is a quest that humans have struggled with since the beginning of time. “Is it something you can see and touch, or is it a product of discourse and discussion? “In ancient times, Greek philosophers like Socrates, Aristotle and Plato sought objective truth. Competing Sophist philosophers focused on rhetoric and winning arguments - prioritizing persuasion using rhetoric instead of observable facts.
Here’s an example: Question, “Can humans fly?” The answer is no, but there’s also a conditional yes. Thanks to the Wright brothers and their innate human curiosity and ingenuity, we can effortlessly fly countless miles any time we choose, on an airplane. Without technology – the answer is no. Both answers can be true, or false, at the same time! Sound familiar, doesn’t it?
So, Let’s get started
1 - The first insight I want to share with you is: There is no version 2 of the human body.
We function today with the same urge to survive and instincts to help us flourish and reproduce as our ancestors and we still have the basic need for shelter, nutrition and companionship, form families and groups for order and the protection of laws - just like our ancestors. Time still happens from sunrise to sunrise, season to season, living event to living event.
Time has three: parts: past, present, and future.
You can’t change the past; the future may, and often doesn’t, unfold as you expected. You’ll wake up to a new day until you don’t.
2 - The second insight I want to share is: All choices are binary. Every action or dilemma has two possible outcomes: it turns out as expected, or it doesn’t.
You will experience the consequences of your choice – in either case.
Charles Swindoll - Evangelical Christian pastor, author and educator offers this observation:
“Life Is 10% what happens to you - living is 90% how you react.”
3 - The third insight I learned is: actions have motives. “All that glitters isn’t gold.” means it’s important that you “look before you leap”. Perhaps it seems to be a selfish trait, but it’s not! Ask yourself two simple questions: “What’s in it for me?” and “Would I ask someone else to do what’s being asked of me?” (These two questions will set parameters for expectation and provide a stopping point when your physical or social terms aren’t being met, need constant revision or worse morph into doing something you wouldn’t ask someone else to do. If so, then stop digging and try something different
4 - The fourth insight I learned is: “You can’t know what you don’t know”. That reminder, combined with another tried and true advisory is “Measure twice, cut once”. Together, this advice will help you turn possibilities into probabilities.
Remember this: “Life is a journey – living is 90% how you react.” Enjoy the ride!
Life is Linear - Living is Cyclical
A Guide for Living Life
by Frank A. Lucas PhD, cNHC
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