ARE YOU WRONG ?

CONGRATULATIONS !

I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU !

Here are a few related statements that should make you reconsider your day and rejoice in it. If being wrong has ever made you sad, then these similar concepts should help you avoid that problem in the future, perhaps even right now.

Think carefully about them and you might suddenly be able to think of another way of expressing this idea, that will brighten your day tomorrow. Please add your own statement to my comments. 

• It is wonderful to discover that we are wrong. It is a major step, if not the only step, to learning and to our personal progress.
• Being disillusioned is a step in the right direction, a temporary discomfort is replaced with a better, but not-yet-perfect, view of reality.
• The book and concept of “Psycho Cybernetics” (Maxwell Maltz, 1960) correctly proposes that 'negative feedback is more positive than positive feedback'. Negative feed back allows us to change direction to choose a better, more certain, path to an important or complex goal. Positive feedback doesn't even confirm to us that our instruments are still working.
• If your image of life today is the same as it was yesterday, there is a good chance that either:1) you are still asleep, or 2) that you have died and no one has yet been kind enough to inform you.  

I would love to add more to this list in the future.  If you would like personal credit for you concept please put your name in parentheses, (me), after your comment.

Hugh Nibley and Thoughts on how we Perceive Beauty and Perfection

About: Hugh Winder Nibley (1910 – 2005) graduated Summa Cum Laude at the university of California, Berkeley in 1938.  He became a professor at Brigham Young University in 1946, and published 19 books
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The Concept

"We recognize what is lovely because we have seen it somewhere else, and as we walk through the world, we are constantly on the watch for it with a kind of nostalgia, so that when we see an object or a person that pleases us, it is like recognizing an old friend; it hits us in the solar plexus, and we need no measuring or lecturing to tell us that it is indeed quite perfect. It is something we have long been looking for, something we have seen in another world, memories of how things should be."

    “Goods of First and Second Intent,” Collected Works of Hugh Nibley 9:528

Plato and Socrates

I remember a story that Plato wrote about his teacher's, Socrates's, belief in a pre-existent life. While teaching his students Socrates called over a young slave boy, drew a crude triangle in the sand, and asked the slave boy what it was.  The slave boy answered, "It is a triangle." The teacher drew a second triangle making the lines much straighter, "And this?" he asked? "it is also a triangle?" the lad responded. Then Socrates took a straight edge, drew the best triangle he could, and asked again. The puzzled boy gave the same answer.

Then Socrates asked, "Which one of these three triangles is perfect?" The now frustrated boy said, cautiously, "The last you drew is the most perfect,... but actually, sir, none of them are perfect?"

Socrates, smiled, thanked the lad and dismissed him, then turned to his students.  "How can this slave boy, draw that conclusion? Unlike you, has had no teacher, no training, yet he understands that my triangles were not perfect. He has never seen a perfect triangle in his life on this earth. For him to understand perfection, he must have seen it, and he must have lived, somewhere else, before he came to earth."