Here’s a list of "paradigm stabilizier" – what to do to make sure you never have those pesky "paradigm shifts" where everything you thought you knew about the world gets turned upside down… (from the summer 2007 issue of geez magazine)
1. Keep busy.
2. Keep moving: travel as much as possible, and when you do, find familiar restaurants.
3. Find the most efficient route to work, to school. Then don’t stray from your patterns.
4. Mingle with like-minded people; avoid cross-cultural, inter-racial, trans-class encounters.
5. Make smart financial decisions; consider market forces natural.
6. Don’t do anything foolish; avoid awkward situations; avoid danger. Get various alarm systems.
7. Avoid people who talk to themselves.
8. Think nasty thoughts about SUV drivers.
9. Watch TV, movies; migrate to four-cornered screens of any kind.
10. Like the average North American, spend 90 percent of your time indoors.
Paradigm shifts can be painful, don’t let them happen to you!
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Alas, if only I had read this important info a few years ago, how many headaches I might have been spared!