Section 1 (Discipline) → tools to confront life’s difficulty
Section 2 (Love) → the motivating force behind growth
Section 3 (Growth & Religion) → how to actually revise the map built in childhood
Here’s on section 3.
1> Problem: our world view is secondhanded
One of our problems is that very few of us have developed any distinctive personal life. Everything about us seems secondhand, even our emotions.
2> Solution: update the map
- Experiment -> Repeated -> Verify
- It is necessary for human beings to subject themselves to the discipline of scientific method. The essence of this discipline is experience, so that we cannot consider ourselves to know something unless we have actually experienced it; while the discipline of scientific method begins with experience, simple experience itself is not to be trusted; to be trusted, experience must be repeatable, usually in the form of an experiment; moreover, the experience must be verifiable, in that other people must have the same experience under the same circumstances.