1  Disclaimer: This document includes topic about mental health and death.
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  3  Those who feel overwhelmed by life might appreciate the following words:
  4  "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
  5  Those who seek to understand might appreciate the following statement:
  6  "Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature."
  7  Those who seek to understand order might appreciate these words:
  8  "I think order depends more on preparation than control."
  9  Those who seek to understand why that is might appricate the following three steps:
 10  Firstly, to understand why order depends less on control one might appreciate these words:
 11  "The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have."
 12  Those who seek to know what it is which seeks control might appreciate the following realization:
 13  "Control is an imaginary boundary the ego thinks it's in charge of."
 14  Those who seek to understand the ego might appreciate the following following words:
 15  "The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside."
 16  Those who seek control within oneself might appreciate the following explaination:
 17  "Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of 'me' based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence."
 18  One might find utility of ego in a state of short term survival as in:
 19  "The ego's job is to kill everything but itself."
 20  Thus any attempt to witness and testification of one's own ego might trigger the defence mechanis of the ego as in:
 21  "If your ego is hurt you may become angry. Understand that ego itself is a disease. Dissolve your ego as far as possible. If you have inferiority complex, or have a very deficient ego you will loose your temper very easily."
 22  Those who seek to dissolve their ego, might appreciate these words:
 23  "Quick success builds ego, slow success builds character."
 24  Those who seek to build such character, might appreciate the chapters "character" and "patience".
 25  Those who seek to understand, why such defence mechanism is triggered, might appreciate these words:
 26  "Safety is the most basic task of all. Without the sense of safety, no growth can take place. Without safety, all energy goes to defence."
 27  Thus those who seek long term surival might appreciate the following proverb:
 28  "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
 29  Those who seek to go far might appreciate the following realization:
 30  "Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things."
 31  Thus one might regain control for long term surival by saying "no" to the react impulsively to defend one's own ego.
 32  Those who struggle to resist that impulse might appreciate the chapter on "responsibility".
 33  One might then be able to understand the following statement:
 34  "Confidence is essential, but ego is not."
 35  Secondly, to understand the importance of preperation one might appreciate these words:
 36  "Confidence comes from being prepared."
 37  Those who seek to understand why that might be, might appreciate these words:
 38  "He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration."
 39  Those who seek such moment, might appreciate the explaination on stategy:
 40  "Tactics is knowing what to do, when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do."
 41  Those who do not know what to do when there is nothing to do might appreciate these words:
 42  "Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point."
 43  Those who do not know how to start planning might appreciate these words:
 44  "Planning is bringing the future into the present."
 45  Those who get too attached to a plan might appreciate the following warning:
 46  "Plans are useless, but planning is essential."
 47  One might find a reason for why plans are useless in these words:
 48  "No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future."
 49  Those who seek to change the future might appreciate these words:
 50  "Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have."
 51  Those who seek to use one's own present moment to prepare might appreciate the following limited enumeration for a possible cause of one's cause death:
 52  - Black out / power outage:
 53  	- Renewable or sustainable power sources
 54  	- Fortification of existing power grid
 55  	- Efforts to sustain offgrid life style
 56  	- Solar Flares:
 57  		- Make electronics EMP proof
 58  		- Have spare parts inside a EMP proof casing
 59  		- Improving means of prediction through observation of cycles
 60  - Climate change and weather extremes:
 61  	- Less reckless consumer behaviour
 62  	- More investment in sustainable innovations
 63  	- More research in safe places to live
 64  	- Fully autarkic hydroponic agricultural systems
 65  	- Working on an instance of artsylum
 66  - War and cyberwarfare:
 67  	- Education of wisdom enabling those who seek war to agree on the necessity of world peace.
 68  	- Better means for resource distribution
 69  	- Better process or improvement of operation of governments
 70  	- Education about cyber security, artificial intelligence and technology.
 71  	- Creation of automated defense mechanism
 72  - Declining birthrate:
 73  	- Education about factors for infertility
 74  	- Increasing financial support and incentive for caregivers (e.g. UBI (universal basic income),
 75  	- Education, therapy and volunterring for caregivers.
 76  	- Preservation of genetic diversity through donation of cells for procreation.
 77  	- Plan B: Artificial womb or cloning.
 78  - Pandemic:
 79  	- Education and research.
 80  	- Maintaing and increasing means to produce means for medical care
 81  	- Financial support to distribute such products to those in need.
 82  - Asteroid:
 83  	- Longterm observation of celestial bodies
 84  	- Innovation in space travel to counter act them or to escape it.
 85  - Suicide:
 86  	- Seek the help of a health care professional.
 87  	- Find something to live for such as meaning in one's own suffering.
 88  	- Talk to someone who listens compassionately.
 89  Thirdly those who seek to understand order might find a clue in the following proverb:
 90  "Order is half of the rent."
 91  Those who are creative might wonder, what would be the other half would be,  if it was not the obvious implication of money.
 92  One might dare to guess that it might be be stability, if stability would be defined as the execution of order.
 93  One might then be able to define order as the "knowledge of the patterns resulting in stability".
 94  One might find one reason for it given the natural inclination of the organ called "brain" to recognize patterns.
 95  One might then be able to define stablity as the absence of chaos as in:
 96  "The Daoist answer is right on the line, where you have one foot in order so that you're fairly stable, and you have another foot in chaos so that new and interesting and compelling and transforming things are happening to you."
 97  Those who seek such transformation might appreciate these words:
 98  "Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits."
 99  Those who seek such good habits might appreciate the chapter on "originality".
100  Those who are overwhelmed with the infinite ways to prepare might appreciate the words:
101  "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
102  Those who seek a simple habit to prepare oneself for the future might appreciate the following mantra:
103  "We are all on the way to Pro."