10 LESSONS FROM THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED BY M SCOTT PECK
1. Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
2. Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
3. Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.
4. You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
5. Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
6. Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
7. Once we truly know that life is difficult — once we truly understand and accept it — then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters
8. Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.
9. Move out or grow in any dimension and pain as well as joy will be your reward. A full life will be full of pain.
10. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.