The Two Categories of Problem Solving

Category 1:

1. Achieve state of personal honesty, and then use it as your frame of reference.
2. Resolve to do any and all necessary mental work towards adjusting perspective and resolving issues/matters.
3. Strive to accurately observe and assess situations.
4. Identify systems, and then possible sources of disruption.
5. Address and then solve problems from the root, or from the point closest to the root that you can access.

Category 2:

1. Assume you’re right and that all others (people, places, things, ideas or beliefs) must be wrong.
2. Let beliefs and personal convenience act in place of, and absolve you from having to achieve personal honesty.
3. Blame things, while glorifying self (or things linked to idea of self) in the process.
4. View things reductively, and attack symptoms of systemic disruption instead of addressing systems holistically and directly.
5. Try to punish things before or instead of actually addressing issues and solving problems.

Listen here… Your thinking is either in category 1 or in category 2, but NEVER in both at the same time.

Category 2 is how parasites necessarily process information and reality. And by parasites I mean organisms that live and benefit at the expense of systems and other organisms, as opposed to functioning within and as extensions of the greater systems they take from.

Category 1 (at the very least) lays the foundation for natural adaptive reasoning. All natural organisms approach reality from a platform of personal honesty, and then attempt (to the best of their ability) to accurately and honestly assess situations and solve problems.