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Beware of the blocked mind!
You may have a blocked mind if you say “We already tried that and it doesn’t work”.
You may have a blocked mind if you say “We’ve always done it this way.”
You may have a blocked mind if, when presented with a new concept, you insist that your way is the only way and proceed to name everyone who does it your way.
I recently had a conversation with a young philosophy college student and she said in a sweet and calm voice. “Sometimes I think that the people in this area are landlocked.” I said, oh, what a nice way to say it. The truth is that after a while, the Land Locked condition happens to everyone.
In the sixties we thought that the government was corrupt and needed to change. My mother said to me, “Okay, so what are you replacing it with?” What kind of question is that? If something is wrong, throw it away. I sent this question back to some friends and we forgot something very important with nothing to replace it, it would be chaos.
It was at this young age that I realized that you needed to preserve what was good and only improve or change what wasn’t working. What did this experience teach me? “Ask a question and listen to the answer.” They taught me to think before getting into a car. They also taught me arguing, disagreeing, and agreeing to disagree sometimes.
If you think that younger people can’t think of anything interesting, you may have a blocked mind condition. This condition could kill you by joining the ranks of old age. Age is relative as I have friends in their 70s, 80s and 90s who are active because they were smart enough to exercise their brains. They open their minds to new things and they live alone and they are vital people.
I’m told that Dr. Phil said that after the age of 25 you can’t blame your parents for your life. Well, I immediately took this opportunity to email my granddaughter Aspen and tell her the good news about her. I said, Aspen, the good news is you can blame your parents for your life until you’re 25. The good news for me is that none of my children are 25 or younger.
Aspen emailed me back and said ok then I can blame my parents for another 7 years. She added these last few words of wisdom to me, but Grandma, why would I give them so much credit?
My children did not think of this.