We're Usually Wrong, But That's Okay

A person is a lot like a torpedo. In his famous book, Psycho-Cybernetics, Dr. Maxwell Maltz describes how a torpedo guidance system works.

It goes like this: The torpedo has a sensor and guidance system that send signals to a steering mechanism (rudder). The sensor and guidance system find and lock onto a target. As the torpedo is launched, the guidance system checks that the target is centered in its sensor.

If the torpedo veers from its course toward the right, the sensor picks it up and tells the guidance system, which then sends an electronic impulse to the rudder to shift the torpedo back toward the left. Then the torpedo continues forward, shifting slowly leftward toward the center.

But it will continue veering leftward until the sensor notices that it has now shifted too far in that direction.

Then it sends an impulse to the rudder telling it to shift to the right again.

For most of its trip, the torpedo is zig-zagging forward, left, right, left, right. And more than 95% of the time, it's aimed in the wrong direction. Ninety-five percent wrong!

This is how the torpedo goes forward veering first one way and then another, making mistakes... until it hits its target.

Mark this idea well; most of the time it's aimed wrong, but it still gets where it's going.

The torpedo goes forward making mistakes until it hits the target.

Our mind works that way.

We put our sights on a target, and we move forward more or less toward the goal. We often veer off this way and that, but if we're paying attention, we can correct our trajectory and stay more-or-less centered on what we're aiming at.

It's this "more-or-less" that can cause us problems.

More than 95% of the time we may be aimed slightly off the mark, but we're still moving in the general direction we should be.

But what happens if we load ourselves down with other distractions - like guilt and fear? Like expectations of failure and criticism? Like a belief that we have no right to seek success?

Or what if we believe that any faint tremor of variation in our aim is a sure sign that we've failed?

See the possibility for problems we create here?

That's why we're studying self-development. A very large and important part of self-development is self-forgiveness. If we can be gentle and loving with ourselves, our lives can be so much more enjoyable.

Our minds are magnificent creations. And if they were not weighed down with doubts, judgments and burdens, we would always reach our goals.

But somehow almost everyone does have doubts, judgments and burdens. By the time we're in mid-childhood we've already accumulated an incredible bundle of mental and emotional garbage.

Again - that's why we're studying self-development. That's why we feel it's necessary to study success. We don't let it come naturally because we have so much unnatural stuff blocking the way.

When we study, most of our effort goes into overcoming and unloading mis-information that interferes with our natural guidance system.

But as we unload it, we do start hitting the target much more frequently.

Isn't that good to know.

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