Three times 2

The principle for living in the now is "fake it till you make it". It means that we should know our ideal and try to live it immediately, while we continue to learn and do what is necessary for making it a spontaneous reality.

The advantage of this is that we have to define our ideal, and that we can start realizing it now.

This is the standard formula for every successful person in world history. Be it in business, arts, entertainment, science or whatever.

If we do not trust in the now, we usually trust in some established reality. The past is very obvious and imposing, and the future is given by the past, it seems. 

But the practical reality is that the future seldom fulfills the promises of the past. Everything from empires to small companies fall. The Roman empire and the Soviet Union were strong in any realistic analysis. General Motors and Ford were strong companies.

So the truth is that the ideas we have in the now are stronger than "reality". Indeed, the "reality" is formed from our ideas, not the other way around. Microsoft and Google are made from ideas, not from reality.

All ideas and ideals are not good. The very good ideas are few. So we should know where to look for them. We find them in the clear mind, and we impose them now.