The human condition
The Daily Show reported recently that the scientists in Japan had invented a robot that is capable of regonizing its own reflection in a mirror.
“When the robot learns to hate what it seees,” said Jon Stewart, “it will have achieved full humanity”
Habits
The difference between an amateur and a profession is in their habits.
We can never free ourselves from habits. The human being is a creature of habit.
But we can replace bad habits with good ones.
We can trade in the habits of the amateur and the addict for the practice of the professional and the committed artist or entrepreneur.
It may help, as a jumping-off place, to consider the interior world of the most passionate and tragic creature of habit – the addict.
Three model of self-transformation
When we hate our lives and ourselves, two models present themselves as a model of salvation.
The first is the therapeutic model. In the therapeutic model, we are told(or we tell ourselves) that we are “sick.”
What ails us is “condition” or a “disease”
