One apple up on top!
Two apples up on top!
Look, you,
I can do it too.
Look! See! I can do three!
But I can do more!
You have three!
But I have four!
Ten Apples Up on Top
by Dr.Seuss
Imagine you have a table.
Imagine you have on your table an old watch. Like this one.
Fig. 1. Old Watch
Imagine this watch is working badly, and you know how to fix it.
But if so, you need some special instruments to do it up.
Glasses, screwdriver, tweezers, toolbox, … like that.
Fig.2. Glasses
Fig.3. Screwdriver
Fig.4. Tweezers
Fig.5. Toolbox
Now. Imagine you have on your table the world of human beings, like that.
Fig.6. The Globe
It works badly and you know how to fix it.
But what instruments do you need for that?
I recommend you four mental instruments to begin with.
Recognize-and-name-it operation (RNO) = glasses.
Distinguish-and-separate-it operation (DSO) = screwdriver.
Enumerate-and-sort-it operation (ENS) = tweezers.
Put-in-lines operation (PLO) = toolbox.
From now, I will say:
«apply ONE» instead of «recognize and name it»,
«apply TWO» instead of «distinguish and separate it»,
«apply THREE» instead of «enumerate and sort it»,
«apply FOUR» instead of «put it in lines».
First look at the problems
Imagine ALL the problems of ALL human beings.
Now apply ONE and recognize in the middle a Self Area.
When you are in the area, you feel comfortable or not, happy or not, but you have no logics, no rules, nothing.
In this area, you are The Self.
Now apply TWO: see, out of the area there is outer world that presses on you, torture you, and restrain you.
But between Self And Outer world there is a narrow ring of compromise.
Fig.7. Self against World
Now we will analyze the ring.
Apply ONE: problems without parameters of specific person are controlled by philosophy.
Apply ONE again: problems with parameters of specific person are controlled by psychology.
These two areas are poles of the ring.
I like to place philosophy at the top (at North Pole) and psychology at the bottom (at South Pole). If so, we have two gaps between North and South: one on the West and one on the East.
