Contents

Introduction

Dear readers, in this book I will share with you the laws of life known to me, in which I see the manifestation of its boundless wisdom, because they are so perfect in their logic, so reasonable, so thoughtful that it is almost impossible to find faultwith them, they only need to be followed in order to live in accordance with the idea of being and this is to enjoy life, and not to suffer and suffer. Some of these laws can be considered true, because they are always and everywhere relevant, and some of them can change over time, so they do not always work the same. But all the same, by focusing on these laws, you will be able to understand many important life situations and actions of people in order to make the right decisions on them, wise decisions that will benefit you both in the short and long term.

You know, Ididn’t always like to go through old thick books, which, as it seemed to me, hid eternal truths, knowing which you can make wise decisions in life, make mistakes less often and come to the right results more often. I wanted to collect all these truths in one place and keep such a source of knowledgeas my greatest treasure. This source of wisdom could be turned to at any time in order to competently solve many of life’s problems. And so, I tried to keep all the most valuable knowledge that I have ever received. As it turns out, valuable wisdom can be found everywhere. Both in books of different times, and from very different people, you can learn it, and, of course, you can comprehend it on your own experience. Which I did. And gradually I realized my desire, I collected all the important knowledge, all the valuable thoughts, all the truths in one place. There were a lot of them and it was necessary to somehow structure them all, selecting the most important knowledge for one source, less important for another, and then descending.

This book has become one of these sources, where I have collected the most valuable knowledge about life at the moment, which personally helps me avoid many mistakes when making decisions and interacting with people. Здесь изложеныNot all the basic laws of this worldthat I have learned in my life are set out here. But here we are talking about such things that you need to know first of all in order to understand many of the laws that exist in this world.

There are some things that have been known to mankind for a very long time. They were, are, and will always be in the form in which they have always existed. Therefore, if you know about them, you can be guided by them always and everywhere, assessing various situations, making decisions, interacting with people. Why learn from your mistakes, why make bumps, why step on a rake when someone else has already done it for you? A wise person learns from other people’s examples, not from his own. Our ancestors did a lot of what we do or are going to do, so knowing their experience, knowing their mistakes, as well as their success, we can be very effective and not create stupid unnecessary problemsfor ourselves, and not make obvious mistakes. And then some people, before they understand something, poke and push like blind kittens, because they do not know how and what works in this world. They seem to have been taught a lot at the same school, and sometimes at the university, but still they were not given the knowledge that is needed in everyday life, and not just at work. Or not enough of them were given. Or the person эти знанияsimply did not learn this knowledge. In any case, to make wise decisions, you need to know the basic laws of life regardingеthe specific activities in which a person wants to succeed. You don’t need to know everythingи, you can’t always find out, but in those cases that you regularly encounter in life, you need to be able to understand. This book will help you understand, what laws explain certain phenomena, events, and actions of people and what is their wisdom. And then, after all, some people think that certain things that happen in this world are wrong. They judge others for their behavior, consider the world unfair, think that something in life is not working properly, not as it should. But in fact, everything is correct, everything happens as it should happen, everything has its own impeccable logic, its own meaning. You just need to understand why the world works the way it does and be able to adapt to its laws.

Here is all that I am completely sureof. After all, I’ve learned all these things over the course of my life. And I don’t have a short one anymore. Maybe some of the things described here are wrong, but I haven’t found any proof of this yet. Therefore, I personally do not doubt the knowledge provided in this book. I am sure you will find confirmation of them. I wrote the book for a wide range of readers, so I didn’t touch on any narrow topics, almost everything in it is given for everyday life. Self-development, relationships with people, something about wealth and power, that’s what this book is about. Everything, as you can see, is for life. When you know the wise laws of life, you can immediately understand what is happening now, what preceded it and what is especially important, you understand what all this will lead to, which means that you can prepare for the likely future. In people’s lives, many things are repeated from time to time for many generations. It sometimes seems to us that the situation we are facing is absolutely unique and therefore we are trying to invent a bicycle to understand it. In fact, there may not be much that is unique in it, and the answers to the questions that this situation poses to us have long been known. They may not be universal, but the general meaning of such answers is always the same and a person only needs to understand what law of life underlies them in order to develop a suitable solution based on it. The sun rises every day in the east and sets in the west, and this has been the case throughout the history of our lives. By knowing this simple, true law of life, we can plan our lives in accordance with it. And we can hardly be mistaken, at least for a few more million years. Those things that I write about here also exist for a single day and also work constantly and without failures.

I think the idea of this book is in the best interests of many people. We all want to know for sure why certain events are happening in our livesи and what can happen tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, in a few years, in this or that state of affairs, and what will definitely happen, regardless of our desires. The same analysts and strategists simply have to have such an understanding. It allowsus all to engage in useful activities such as planning, when we makeем decisions for the long term, and not just to solve current issues. I’ve always been interested in understanding why some people behave in a certain way, contrary to all logicе and common sense. I wanted to find out for myselfwhy people, knowing how to do the right thing, still did the wrong thing, to the detriment of themselves first of all. I was surprised by this until I learned the basic laws of life that explain the laws of human behavior. Then everything became clearto me and I learned to explain and calculate people’s behavior, to anticipate the consequences of certain decisions. It made my life much easier. So you, dear readers, will learn this when you read this book. Well, let’s move on to the main and eternal. And we will begin by understanding such an important thing as truth.

Chapter 1. The Search for Truth

This vital wisdom suggests that we should look for knowledge in this life that can be considered eternal, because it does not become obsolete and always points to the same patterns in different areas of life. This is necessary in order to be well-versed in this world and understand what will happen in each specific case, where events unfold according to the scenario known to you. And the scenario will be known to you because you will know the truth. Knowing the truths in different areas of life, you will receive a very high-quality education, with which you will never be lost. Authenticknowledge that is relevant at all times is the truth. They can also be called rules without exceptions. They always work the same way and give the expected result. In fact, the wisdom of this thought reflects the essence of this book. And this chapter teaches you how to develop this power yourself. I’ll tell you what I did when I wrote this book. I will teach you to seek the truth, that is, eternal knowledge. Seeking eternalх knowledgeй is a way to gain power.

We can also say that such knowledge is absolute laws that always work in the same way and lead to the same result. And owning them, and therefore owning the truths, a person will make fewer mistakes, less often make mistakes, making various decisions based on these truths. The more you know the truths, the wiser you will be. And the wiser you are, the more reasonable your actions will be.

Так кSo же why seek the truth in anything? We need to look at two things that lead to it. The first is history, studying which you can see invariable patterns, when something always and at all times happened in the same way. It is not necessary to study the whole history, but you can study something specific, experience in a particular field, activity, каor direction, and highlight everything that has always workedthe same way, at all times. You can relate this to your experience when something happened in your life and you want to find out how it happened in other people. Use any sources of information for this purpose, just to find as many similarities as possible. Everything is unchangeable, all these rulesthat have no exceptions, when one hundred identical actions lead to one hundred identical results, regardless of time and place-these are all truths. You need to collect them. It is best to write them out and then check each time using your own or someone else’s examples to seehow correct theyare. You see, let’s say that if a person is defending himself against someone’s attacks or trying to get some benefit, then he is lying if he needs it to achieve his goal. ЗIt is possible and necessary to write out a law according to which people always lie when they defend themselves or try to get something profitable for themselves. True, there are exceptions, some people do not always lie, even when it is profitable for them, but still, the fact that all people are capable of lying is true. For man is a lying being. Everyone knows how to lie — this is also the truth. With situations in which people can do this, there are certain quirks, someone lies in some cases, someone in others, but the conclusion can still be made unambiguous and useful: you can not completely, and even more so without any reason, trust people! No one! Like this you can find and formulate the truth.

And the second thing that leads you to the truth is your own experience, which you need to check for repetitive scenarios. Of course, it is much more modest than the experience of all people who have ever lived, but it is more accurate. You can trust your experience more than anything else in the world. Yes, it will be limited, and it may even point out patterns that are not absolute, meaning that rules that have never been excluded in your experience may have some, but you just don’t know about them. But it’s not so bad. Any truth can be doubted if you want to do it, because who knows what else can happen in this world, which we are unlikely to ever be able to fully understand. Someday the Sun will go out. So any truth may not be absolute, and therefore not completely true. Let’s not strive for perfection here, otherwise we won’t have any truths atall. So, if in your life some things always happen in the same way, according to the same scenario, and you see the same patterns, immediately grab a pen, pencil or any electronic device that allows you to record information and write down the truth that you have discovered or what you are looking for. it’s like her. Then you will polish it to the desired appearance, highlighting all its features, the main thing is to find something repetitivethat you can then study as a probable truth. When the same thing happens in certainх situations, you can safely write down this pattern in the category of truths, so that you can then refer to it to evaluate other similar situations.

Let’s take a closer look at what the truth gives a person, so that you can understand even better why you should go through knowledge in search of those that always point to unchangeable rules in any area of life. And it gives him and, in particular, you, full confidence in their decisions. This is the most important thing. Never make a mistake-it’s worth a lot. When you make a decision based on the truth, you know exactly what outcome to expect. The probability of an error is significantly reduced. It is not completely excluded, because anything is possible, but the probability of success will be 99.99% and this is the main benefit of the truth. You can be absolutely confident in your decisions when you are guided by the truth when making them. Let’s say there is such a truth, according to which, a person is driven by his instincts. They have always been and will always be what they are. This is the truth. Our needs depend on them. Every healthy person wants to eat, sleep, everyone needs a roof over their head, everyone is looking for a partner for intimacy, and therefore for reproduction, and so on. When a person knows about these needs, when he understands what instincts are behind them, he will always be able to understand the motives of any person, at this very basic level. You can’t make a mistake in anticipating a person’s behavior if you know what basic needs are driving them at the moment. Because they will be triggered by his instincts, which were, are, and probably will be what they are. Truth in this case is knowledge about these instincts, understanding in what needs they are expressed and how a person seeks to satisfy these needs. Although there are different ways to meet them, the main thing is to know what a person wants and why. This is already enough to anticipate his actions and predict his behavior. And, of course, this is how you can influence people by offering them something that they are currently interested in or pushing for weaknesses that they can’t control. And they are not so difficult to determine. You just need to look at what a person does all the time, in which he is one hundred percent predictable. This predictability will reflect its true state.

The truth is not easy to establish and find. First of all, because we cannot know all possible life situations in which this or that rule, this or that law works in the same way, without giving any misfires. Therefore, it is quite possible to make a mistake. We know that the Sun rises every day, and it has been shining long enough for us to be sure that tomorrow it will rise and shine again. We can say that this is the truth. But it is obvious that someday it will also go out. Therefore, such a truth is still temporary, and therefore not absolute. And those things that we encounter in everyday life are much more difficult to check for absoluteness, it is difficult to say how имеющиmuch they haveregularitiesand constants. In the same situation, the same person can act differently, no one is one hundred percent predictable. Therefore, it is not easy to establish the truth in certain moments associated with the same human behavior. You know that knowledge in everything is regularly updated, people are constantly learning something new about this world. So what we all know today may be different tomorrow. However, there are some things that are unchangeable throughout the history of mankind, so they can be considered truths that need to be searched and collected. Such truths, if accumulated, will give you a perfect picture of this world. Even if there are not many of them, they will be more useful than temporary and insufficiently accurate knowledge, which may become outdated, change, or even completely useless. Therefore, look for everything that repeats itself, even in your life, even in the lives of other people, even in the history of all mankind.

Do you know what the most interesting part is? If you not only collect truths, but also write them down, and try to somehow organize, them so that they help you see a broader picture of the world, then you will get something similar to this book, but already of your own production and you will own a methodology for finding high-quality and reliable information. With these skills, many people will be interested in you, first of all, as an analyst. You can find a good job for yourself. After all, I also share with you the truths that I collected during my life and formed my own picture of the world from them. And this work has taught me to understand people so well that when I consult them, I often see from the very beginning what their problem is and how it can be solved. It remains only to influence people in the right way, so that they help me help them. This is how useful it is not only to know the truths, but also to be able to search for them. All the life wisdom that is described herein this book in the form of various laws and regularities is largely eternal knowledge. They always have been and always will be. Therefore, you can supplement my truths with your own, which you will find yourself, using the simple method of analyzing the information that I have offered you. And because of this, you нарисwill get one overall picture of the world, on the basis of which you will make your decisions. It will not be complete, which, I believe, is impossible for a person to know everything at all. He can’t know all the complexity of this world, he can’t learn about all its laws and regularities, because there are so many of them, because this world is incredibly complex. Nevertheless, what we already know and can still learn is enough for us to live an interesting, decent and high-quality life. I repeat, write out all those patterns that are constant, everything that repeats is a sign of truth.

I believe that it is useful for a person to be in constant search for the truth. This knowledge, which points to unchangeable patterns, is a real treasure for a person, in search of which he is constantly in thought, which is useful for the mind. ПWhen we seek such knowledge, we are in a state where we do not have absolute and complete confidence in everything we knowuntil we are convinced that our knowledge is at least somewhat stable and confirmed by experience. What if we’re wrong about something we think we know for sure? What if our knowledge is situational, that is, applicable only to a single case, and not to all similar cases, or even completely false? Why not search for more knowledge about what we want to be absolutely sureof, until we come across something else that is more fundamental, accurate and unchangeable, so that it will work always and everywhere? The mind must remain inquisitive, so that interest in life is preserved, and the quality of our knowledge grows. In general, I think that such a completely absolute truth, something that never changes and will not change, simply does not exist. I think the world has always changed and will continue to change, even all its basic laws, according to which it exists, they are not constant. Once the universe did not exist, according to scientists, and then it appeared, began to expand and to something sometime this expansion and development will lead, and to what exactly, we do not know. Therefore, it is better not to think that it is possible to have eternal answers to certain questions, that our knowledge will never change, no matterми бы how eternal, from our point of view, itи may be. It is always better to look for new answers, to search for the truth, doubting that what we already know as the truth is in fact the truth and it will never change its form. It may well change. And who knows what else our minds can come up with in search of truths, what new knowledge, new answers it will lead usto. I think it will be very interesting and undoubtedly useful. This is a constant training of the mind and maintaining interest in life. In the meantime, even the knowledge that we can be sure of as true knowledge will serve us well. When a person finds some truth, it is as if he looks into the instructions for this world, and he understands what absolute laws this world consistsof. It is unlikely that they are sufficiently perfect and extremely accurate to never change, and they are unlikely to have exceptions. But if they have been unchanged for thousands of years, then I think it is enough to take such truths seriously and not question their importance.

There are some things in this life where true knowledge is especially valuable. Let’s take the same person as an example. You will agree that knowing the truth about ourselves is probably more important than anything else in this world. And we don’t know enough truths about ourselves to accurately predict our own and other people’s behavior in certain situations, and to know about the same patterns of various psychological problems so well that we can always, in all cases, solve these problems in the same way. We don’t have enough eternal knowledge about ourselves. I have already mentioned one thing to you, saying that people are prone to lying and this should always be remembered, checking any information coming from people for authenticity, as much as possible, but not trusting it blindly. But this truth is not enough to understand people. I have also told you about instincts, and you need to know about them in order to understand yourself and others. But they are also not enough for people to understand. In the same psychology, I will tell you, it is not possible to apply the same methods to all people when solving their problems. Treating the same depression may require different approaches, many different approaches, and combinations of them.

By the way, speaking about instincts as a truth, it is important for us to understand thatни although everyone has the same ideas and remain unchanged throughout the history of mankind, nevertheless, they are expressed differentlyfor everyone. On the one hand, we are always hotели: eat, drink, sleep, and have intimate relationships with other people, primarily for reproduction, and not for pleasure, as some people think. We also want to feel protected, we need recognition, and so on. People have always aspired to power, too, because the instinct for power is very strong. It manifests itself in our desire to subordinate other people to our will, to dominate, to command everyone, to get people нужных to make the decisions we need. Everyone has this instinctive need. And in general, there are quite a lot of instincts and related needs. On the other hand, people satisfy them in different ways, depending on their intellectual development. For example, one man carefully woos a woman in order to seduce her, and another, driven by the same instinct, immediately offers to enter into an intimate relationship with her, behaves rudely and impudently. Of course, each of them will have their own success in relationships with women, and they will be different.

Instincts are true, but they don’t explain everything.Much of a person’s behavior depends on their intelligence, life experience, and habits. But all the same, by nature we all need the same things, mostly connected and even, probably, only with the question of our survival. I don’t mean each of us individually when I talk about human survival, but about our entire species. We can say that the survival instinct is the basic instinct of any person. Therefore, the desire of humans to survive, whether it is the survival of the individual or an even more basic desire: survival as a species, is true. Knowing it, you can, for example, appeal to humanity, asking for help from people or from a single person. It does not always help, but the chance to reach out to the basic instinct in people, in a person, asking them, him for help, is quite great.

So when such knowledge, in this case, knowledge about a person, applicable to all people and for all times, is found by us, it means that we have found the truth. Look for such truths, look for what people have always done in the same situations, collect these truths, structure them in a convenient way, and then, based on these truths, make your decisions. You can be almost one hundred percent sure that these decisions will be correct. You can’t go wrong by calculating the consequences of your actions using the truths you have. So you can take control of many processes in this world. Unpleasant surprises in your life will be less, and the desired resultsthat you will achieve yourself, without anyone’s help, will be more.

Chapter 2. The Truth

Well, let’s move on. In this chapter, we will talk about the wisdom of life, such as a reasonable attitude to the truth and правильноеits correct understanding. The truth can be different and everyone has their own, depending on how a person understands some things, some event, and what their interests are. By truth, we mean not just some unique situation that may not necessarily be repeated under other similar circumstances, but in this particular case it occurred and therefore is true, but also a person’s subjective opinion aboutthe situationitself. As well as how they reflect it in words, in a letter, taking into account their interests. Let’s say there was an event in which one person received some benefit, and the other suffered losses. The first one will have a positive opinion about this event, and the second one will have a negative one. Which of them is right? Whose opinion about the situation will be true, and whose is a lie? Both are right. But everyone is right in their own way. There is only one situation, and at least two truths about it, at least in our example. At the same time, there can be two lies, since both witnesses of this situation can to a certain extent, including without consciously distorting information about it, transmitting it to other people in the way they themselves understandit.

Therefore, when you learn the truth from someone, you will learn not about what happened, but about how the person saw what happened, how he understood what he saw and experienced and what he thinks about it, taking into account his interests. Basically, the truth is just someone’s opinion of something. It will not necessarily be false, but it will simply reflect the situation exactly as the person saw it and understood it. Or the way he wants to see her and understandher. And this truth of his will also depend on how he explains it, because a lot depends on this, too. Some people have seen a lot, know a lot, and understand a lot, but they can’t explain it or retell it correctly and accurately enough to be understood. Knowing is one thing. But being able to pass on your knowledge is completely different. Someone who knows a lot doesn’t necessarily have the ability to explain it clearly enough to others. Therefore, if a person speaks beautifully and fluently, it does not mean that he is telling the truth. And the one who can’t connect two words, trying to explain something, does not necessarily mean that he is lying. I’ve burned myself many times in my life thinking that the truth is always the same and that it belongs to the one who explains things best. No, it’s much more complicated than that.

Any truth can be beneficial to some, and unprofitable to others. Therefore, a clash of truths is inevitable. In fact, in any society, a kind of information war is constantly going on, in which everyone tries to overshadow someone else’s truth with their right one. And I’m not talking about lies, I’m talking about the fact that the same events, the same facts can be presentedin differentми ways, so that they reflectли different truths, and therefore different interests. Who will convey their point of view to you best, and that will be the truth, in your opinion. Or we can talk about what will be discussed on the agenda, what issues, what problems. This means that you won’t even know about some of the truth. The truth that is unprofitable for someone, for example, unprofitable for the official authorities, may simply be hushed up. There is an event, and it is very important, and you will not know about it, because all information sources will tell about other events, also true, but different. After all, in our time, when the average person is overloaded with all kinds of information, it is not what is true and what is false that becomes important, but what truth is discussed, what truth is said, what truth is conveyed to people. Therefore, sometimes you should show more interest in what is said in passing or completely silent, although you have heard about it, than think about what is being trumpeted on every corner, because what is not mentioned is often more important than what is discussed.

We must understand that there has always been and will always be such a thing in the life of any society that some forces in it will oppose other forces and this confrontation will be reduced primarily to whose truth and in what form it will be presented to the majority of people in order to focus their attention on it. Here they say that a well-fed person is not a friend to a hungry person. This means that the vision of some things, those who live well and those who live poorly, will be different. Some will justify any injustice, any lawlessness, any violence, any laws that limit some and give unlimited opportunities to others, as long as they are doing well. And those who suffer from all this, of course, will be against this state of affairs. The vision of the same situation is always different for different people, no matter what the situation itselfи may be. And for people who are materially very different from each other, it will be all the more different and very different. Those who have a good life under the current system will speak well of it, and those who have some problems, respectively, will speak poorly. And everyone will be right in their own way, everyone will have their own truth, absolutely justified. One person will say that he has quite rightly come to what he has, and if he wants to keep it, he will not want any changes. And the one who has nothing, who has been robbed of everything, or who has not been able to come to anything, will be quite rightly dissatisfied with this, since this state of affairs affects the quality of his life, and in some cases threatens it. And such a person wants changes and insists on them. In such a clash of truths, there is not and cannot be right, from an objective point of view. The right person will be the one who eventually achieves their goals. Either everything will remain as it is, to please those who are satisfied with everything, or everything will change, as those who have nothing or have very little want. This means that you don’t have to think about what is true. Think about what benefits you and support it. It may not be beautiful, but it is profitable.

Thus, it turns out that everyone has their own truth and you need to defend your own, which is convenient and profitable for you. It is not necessary to search for the truth, because this search will lead you to other people’s selfish points of view, but to create and form it in the form in which it is convenient for you. Andwhether it is possible to join existing and completely satisfied opinions on certain issues that reflect some truth and defend them. You don’t need to look for any objectivity, be able to convey your point of view to people, convince them of your views, and impose your values and goals on them. We are looking for the truth and that, mainly for ourselves, and we are not looking for the truth, but we create and impose it on others, telling people about something in such detail and insistently that they believe us. Because it’s not the truth that matters, but what it gives you. Its usefulness is important to you. Well, for example, if you are going to be tried for a crime, especiallyе one that you haveиcommitted accidentally or foolishly, will it be so important for you to tell the truth in court, whatever it may be, for which you can be severely punished? Or is it better to present the situation in such a way that you are acquitted or at least not very much punished? Your generosity in this world of egoists will not impress anyone very much. Of course, you can be praised for being honest, for being objective in some matters, to the detriment of your own interests, but it is unlikely that you will be able to achieve any significant success in life if you defend the truth, which will not take into account your interests, but will simply be the most, let’s say, correct. the truth. You justhavemore cunning and flexible people around you. That’s why we need our own opinion, so that we can benefit from it. And often that’s what people’s opinions are-a reflection of their interests.

Any truth should be treated not as reliable information, because reliability is not always necessary when we take into account someone’s opinion, but as something that either has a benefit or does not have it. Reliability in itself is not useful if it does not allow people or an individual to solve some important tasksthat require certain information. Reliable but useless information is useless truth or even dangerous truth. Well, for example, do you know the truth about, say, someone’s crimes or some historical events, and then what? Can you use this kind of truth in your life to solve your daily tasks or any other tasks that are important to you? If not, why do you need it? Sometimes you don’t even want to know the truth, so as not to spoil your life when, for example, a person finds out about the ugly past of his partner or about how and from what they make sausage, which he buys every day in the store. If the truth is of no use or if it causes harm, pain, then it is not just possible, it must be ignored. And sometimes even suppress, destroy, so that it does not harm people. For example, why were some scientists called heretics and burned at the stake before, even though they told people the truth and enlightened them? For example, according to some historians, Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for his belief that the Earth is round and revolves around the Sun. True, other historians refute this, but it doesn’t matter to us, everything is complicated in history, there are many inventions and lies in it, so you can’t find the end here. But if this was the case and someone was burned at the stake for enlightening the masses, then why was this done? On the one hand, it is obvious that this was done because they undermined the authority of the then authorities in the face of the same church, which had its own point of view on everything and everything. But it’s not just their fault. They are also guilty of the fact that they could have broken the existing order in society with their truths, causing chaos in it because of such knowledge, for which the» dark" society was not ready at that time. Ведь нAfter all, some truth can disrupt the entire order in society and lead to anarchy. People can stop obeying the authorities, if they lose their authority and power in their eyes, they will start committing crimes and then it will be very difficult to calm the maddened crowd. We know that any frightening information always causes panic in society, because of which people do a lot of stupid things, from which they suffer more than from the threat they have learned about. For example, in a fire, quite often most people die from panic, and not from fire hazards. And imagine that you are now going to tell people the truth, according to which aliens from outer space colonized our planet and walk among us in the guise of ordinary people. What can such information, presented as true and supported by evidence, lead to? It is not known exactly, but there will definitely be a panic. And panic will lead to riots and crimes, to anarchy in society. People can start killing each other, thinking each other is an alien. Anything can happen. Therefore, sometimes it is better to keep the truth behind seven locks, whatever it may be. And those who spread it should be isolated or destroyed. That would be the lesser of evils.

People who think flexibly are very fond of playing with the truth, presenting any facts in a convenient way, describing any events from a favorable side for themselves. Those who know how to distort information to please themselves are cunning. And the one who knows how to present it in a favorable light for himself is wise. The latter, of course, is preferable, since society likes those who do not lie, even if they present information in a way that is convenient for them. Lying is not a very clever trick. But to be able to convey your truth to people is a high skill. And how to do this, how to present information in a favorable light for yourself, without distorting it, without deceiving people? To do this, it is necessary to interpret it in such a way that it affects the interests of those people to whom we transmit it. In other words, just say what people might find interesting and profitable to hear, putting your interests in this context. Who needs your truth, whatever it is, if it doesn’t suit anyone, who will accept your point of view if it doesn’t give people anything? Connect your truth to the interests, desires, problems, and fears of people so that it seems useful, profitable, and necessary to them, and then they will grasp it, even if there are some inconsistencies in it. Your truth should solve some problems and tasks of people, they should use it to see a way out of some difficult situations for them or see it as a way to realize their desires, a way to achieve their goals. Otherwise, they won’t be interested in it. Say that you are right about something, because your rightness reflects the general interests, not just your own. This will be true if you really are not selfish and are willing to think not only about yourself.

It is precisely because of the interests and desires of people in our world that one truth stands out from all other truths. Any information is filtered out in the way society needs. People believe what they want to believe, see and hear what they want to see and hear. They need the truth in a convenient way. But the most interesting thing is that people may not need the truth, not at all, not from any angle, if they are not satisfied with it in some way. They are also ready to accept a lie as the truth, if it will be more pleasant and profitable for them. But for the real truth, whatever itи is, you can pay for it. Do you often tell people the truth, that is, exactly what you think? If a friend or girlfriend comes up to you and asks you for your opinion about their new car or hairstyle, which you personally don’t like, are you ready to disappoint him or her by saying exactly what you think, and not what he or she wants you to say? I even suggest you try this experiment: write down how many times a day you tell people what you think. Provided that it will be a day when you will communicate a lot and with many people. If you don’t have such days, then extend the experiment for a week. And see how truthful you are with people, and most importantly, think about what your truth would give you if you told it to those and then, to whom and when you didn’t tell it. I assure you, you will not always be truthful with people, you are not always truthful with them now, and this is normal. In order to feel comfortable in society, and to please people, we do not have to be absolutely sincere with them, it is harmful and even dangerous. We have to choose what we say and to whom. Because if a person tells, for example, his boss what he thinks about him, then if he thinks badly about him and says exactly this, then such a revelation will not bring him anything good. Even if he tells the truth that can be proved, and does not just express his opinion, he will still suffer. Therefore, we are forced to lie or outright lie in order not to spoil relations with people, and of course, to achieve some of our goals. Sometimes it is better to flatter a person than to express your real opinion about him. Then he will like you, and for the truth he may hate you. So, you see, even a lie can be more important than the truth, any truth.

But I don’t advise you to lie outright. This is not aerobatics in dealing with people. A lie can be detected, it is difficult to control it, it is difficult to coordinate one lie with another lie, and it is difficult to compare it with known facts, so you can get caught up in alieif you get carriedaway with it. But to present events to people in such a way that your truth prevails over someone else’s, this is really useful to be able to do. Play on the mood of people, adapting your truth to them, to their needs. If society as a whole or a certain group of people has problems in life, they suffer and look for someone to blame, then find them, invent it for them. And people always look for someone to blame, when something goes wrong with them, they need a scapegoat. Therefore, if you adjust your truth to fit this need, people will readily accept it. Tell them who is to blame and what they should do, and how to do it, to punish the culprit or otherwise let off steam and they will listen to you, people will like you and may even follow you if you are willing to lead them. People love when the truth is simple, easy, when you can solve all the problems at once, with one wave of your hand. Therefore, if your idea turns out to be pleasant, interesting and easy to implement, people will swallow such a convenient truth with all its shortcomings, with all its logical inconsistencies and contradictions. And in no case should you tell people the truth, like this: you are to blame for what is happening to you and you first need to do something to change something. To say so is to turn a lot of people against you. Most people are adult children, infantile, who do not need such a harsh truth. They will either ignore it and you, or take revenge on you for it. In addition, this point of view is not always true. In some cases, other people are to blame for people’s troubles, not themselves. With responsibility for what is happening, not everything is so simple in this life. It is logical, of course, to take responsibility for everything for ourselves, because who, if not us, is it important to change something in our lives? But the importance of the external environment and other people should not be belittled. Otherwise, it will turn out that a person only needs to work on himself all his life, and the outside world will live by its own rules. But all this reasoning, most people don’t need it. They do not like to be so philosophical, they need simple and clear solutions, even if they are not always true. So offer them to them.

You need to tell the truth when it is either very necessary, for example, in the process of training people, when you need to prepare them for life and any distortion of reality can harm them, or when you have enough authority to tell people what and how they do not want to hear. They will listen to you and obey out of respect for you. In all other cases, the truth should be presented in the form in which it is convenient for people. For example, if you want to communicate bad news, try to find positive aspects in it and formulate your message in such a way that it is on these points that the person’s attention is focused. Let’s say you want to tell a person that they have serious health problems and need to undergo surgery, after which they will never be completely healthy again. What can you think of to tell this truth so that it doesn’t look too heavy? We can say that in order to preserve the remaining health, a person needs to have an operation, after which he will be able to formalize a group for himself and receive a solid disability allowance, which will simplify his life. It is clear that the news is still unpleasant and the person will have questions, but at the same time, you will agree, the essence of it does not change, which means that you are not deceiving him, but the form of its presentation becomes a little more attractive and it is perceived more easily. Because it becomes less intimidating. This is true, this is not a lie, you do not say that a person is healthy, that everything is fine with him, he does not need to do anything. You simply focus their attention on the positive aspects of your message and try to present it in such a way that the person thinks about the benefits that they will receive, and not about the problem that they have and not about the loss that they will suffer.

You have to play with the truth, my friends. You can’t hit people with it, no one likes that. I’ve burned myself on this many times, thinking that people need the truth. Not really needed. So I wrote down this rule to make fewer mistakes when I say things they don’t want me to say. Don’t think that if you tell the truth, whatever it is, on every street corner, it will help you convince someone of something. You may be able to convince some people, but you’ll probably ruin your relationship with most of them. Even if people tell you that they need the truth, they value the truth, and they want it, don’t believe them. They don’t need it. Tell them what they like to hear, don’t lie, just don’t tell the whole truth, part of the truth, or present it in the way you would like to receive it. Then it will be perceived normally, and you will not spoil the relationship with anyone, but on the contrary, only improve them.

Chapter 3. Facts

In this chapter, we will talk about the meaning of facts in our lives and how to properly relate to them, how to perceive them. After all, many of our beliefs are based on facts. In our society, it is customary to take facts seriously, as something valuable that conveys the truth. If there is a fact, then you can’t argue with it, allegedly. And if a person knows the facts, then he, again, allegedly, can understand everything, is able to understand everything. In fact, I believe that the importance of facts is greatly exaggerated, and perhaps not accidentally, but to convince people of some things about which some facts are known, but these facts are interpreted in a way that is beneficial to some people who want to confuse everyone else. Perhaps the most striking example is history. We may know a lot of historical facts, but what kind of picture we get from them will depend on the interpretation of these facts and how they relate to other facts. And you can link them in any way you want, aswell as interpretthem. The picture can be anything you want. And this is if you also take into account that the facts are true, not false.

A lot of different conclusions can be drawn from the same facts.. In one case, we can say that, for example, some war that was in the past occurred for one reason, in another, for another, in a third, for a third, and so on. And that changes a lot, doesn’t it? The fact that there was a war is a fact. But who is to blame for it is already an interpretation of this fact. Therefore, the wisdom we are considering can be formulated as follows: the facts themselves do not say anything, they, firstly, still need to be checked to make sure that the fact is a fact, and not fiction, and secondly, they need to be considered in order to draw not one, but several conclusions from each fact and then think about which one might be correct. It’s not an easy job. Therefore, knowing the facts, it is not necessary that a person knows exactly what happened and why.

Let’s take a closer look at what is a fact? A fact is a real event that actually happened. Here is a simple and concise definition. You don’t need to add anything else here. But how do you know if something really happened if, say, you didn’t personally witness it? You see, if you haven’t personally seenor heard something, or taken part in something, or at least haven’t tested something through the same experiment as scientists who are engaged in real science do and should do, then you can’t be sure of many facts that they are just facts. You can’t know for sure if an event has happened or not, or if it’s just someone’s words when someone tells you about what happened. After all, any story can be made up. For example, there was an earthquake in Japan, they tell you on the news. Is this a fact? It may or may not be a fact. Maybe you are being deceived, who knows. If you can get confirmation of this information from other sources, for example, call friends in Japan and find out from them whether an earthquake really occurred there, then we can assume that this is a fact. Although even in this case, there will be doubts, even small ones, because your friends can also deceive you. Or, by calling them, you will get to other people who will intercept the call, introduce themselves as your friends and deceive you. Some people do that. Well, if there is no way to verify this information at all, then you have even more reason to doubtй the truth of this fact. ЕUnless you don’t trust the news, no matter what sources it comes from, as much as you do yourself. But a person, with more or less developed critical thinking, of course, should not do this. So the first thing to do with a fact is to make sure that it is indeed a fact. Maybe the news won’t lie about the earthquake; it’s not such an important topic that it’s in anyone’s best interest to lie to you about it. But war is a completely different matter. Or politics. There are a lot of lies in them and you can’t always figure out these lies. And it is not always necessary to do this. Therefore, it is possible to establish the facts, without being something like an investigator, in such things as war, politics, and in many other types of human activities, in which затрагиваютthey are involved. someone’s interests can be incredibly difficult. And until you know whether a fact is a fact, any interpretation of such unverified facts, as well as their analysis, can be a completely meaningless activity. Thinking about what didn’t happen, trying to understand how and why it happened, means making mistakes in advance.

Attitude to facts is of great importance in education and, consequently, in the ability of a person to adequately and profitably assess the surrounding reality and certain events. When you know the facts, plus you have a well-developed mind, and you are able to reason, connect facts with each other, deduce from the general particular, and from the particular general, your effectiveness in solving many problems will be very high. But the question is, where do you get the facts you need for analysis and reflection? After all, not everything that is called a fact is such. The first thing that comes to golovuу is, of course, their own experience. As with truths, кwhen you’ve experienced something yourself, you know enough about it, if not all of it, to have plenty of food for thought. We just can’t explain everything that happened to us, but the main thing is that we all remember what we experienced, and explanations will be found in time, in the same books. What happened to you should be compared with what happens to other people in a similar situation to understand whether your situation is unique or very common. This will help you understand whether it is worth studying this fact through someone else’s experience, or whether it is better not to generalize your situation, considering that it is applicable to all cases. But you know how it happens, some people have experienced something and think that their experience extends to all other similar situations, not realizing that in other similar cases everything can turn out differently.

Learning in good educational institutions from good teachers can also provide a person with valuable factsthat have been verified by other people. But not always. Most people, even studying at elite universities, receive not only dubious facts from the point of view of truth, they also receive them in an interpreted form. This is a characteristic feature of public education, including very high-quality ones. People in large numbers cannot be taught in a way that is based on assumptions and a constant search fo