Is it possible to compare our ideas with truth itself and thus find the factors that reinforce the idea and avoid all mistakes?
When we meet a new person - the one we have been looking for so long, or when we start a new project, career, movie, investment we start making plans.
These plans have a positive side - we imagine all the nice things we could do. We also feel the joy of accomplishment. We will be famous, probably.
But there is also a neutral and a negative side. The neutral side is the work involved. Whatever the idea is - protecting the environment, finding the murderer, getting a baby, building a house - a tremendous lot of work is needed. This is not bad, but it is a fact.
The negative side is the things we have to abstain from in order to fulfill our idea.
But the main problem is in the realism of the idea. Will this person share the future with me? Is he really the murderer? Are we ready for a child? Can we manage everything needed to get a house of our own?Well, we have a brain process here. If we have a good idea, we normally start to create a positive emotional charge. We need this emotional power in order to do anything, so it is positive so far.
The problem is that we can create emotional attraction even for the most unrealistic of ideas. Sometimes we feel that the strength of our feelings is proof of their justification. The stronger attraction, the safer relation. The stronger the hate, the more certain that he is a villain.
This is not true, of course. We can be extremely attracted even to the most destructive, and our hate can be totally unjustified even if it blinding us totally.
On the other side we have truth itself. It is very discrete and subtle. Compared to the emotional charge, truth is very bleak.
In order to be able to hear the faint voice of truth, we have to shatter the emotional charge. Kill your darlings, is the expression.We can do that, as the darlings will return if they stand the test of truth.
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