Thursday, January 22, 2009

Its really quite simple- Your Budget Guide to Cosmological Well Being

"...a neuroscientist named Jaak Panksepp who identified a series of core 'emotion system' in aminals: seeking, play, care, and lust (on the positive side) and fear, panic, and rage (on the negative).

" ' The rule is simple,' Ms. Grandin writes, 'don't stimulate rage, fear, and panic if you can help it, and do stimulate seeking and also play.' "

In the intellectual history of this strand of thought, i would organize it as follows:

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's Comprehensive Conclusion to Total Metaphysical Inquiry
"42"

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's Comprehensive Principle of Behavioral and Psychological Guidance
"Don't Panic"

The Grandin Moral and Social Corrolary to the HGGCPBMG
"Don't Panic Others either"

I suspect if i optimize the applications of these principles, i may save myself tens of thousand dollars on future shrink fees. Failing that, i may earn tens of thousands of dollars by developing it into a self help book.