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Letter 8: Call to Action

Welcome to letter 8, the crucial pay-off steps we must take to become a Mental Wealth millionaire and make the world a safer, gentler place.

Letters 1-7 provided knowledge of the facts and an accurate understanding of our selves. They lead to the common sense conclusion: Weapons with ultimate destructive power (WUD) will be unleashed in our lifetime or that of our children’s unless a sufficient number of informed individuals work together to make common sense common. The Educational Community’s (EC) goal is to popularize Einstein’s solution to prevent catastrophe and create world peace: We require a newer way of thinking (ANWOT). Our task is to popularize our weapon of ultimate construction (WUC), common sense.

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The Two Most Powerful Self-endorsement Strens

Dear World Peace Leader,

This is letter 7 of the mini-course on How to Become a Powerful Force for World Peace and a Mental Wealth Millionaire. You will learn how to apply the two most important self-endorsement strens, what I call Emotional self-endorsement and Secondary endorsement. Skill in self-endorsement is among the most important of all the skills we require to survive and thrive in today’s world. But first, I want to show you why self-endorsement is essential to create the wonderful benefits we desire. You will be eager to add these two most powerful of all self-endorsement strens to your collection when you understand their benefits.

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Here is the simple explanation why self-endorsement skills are essential for our well-being. Emotion usually trumps intellect.
Instinct and tradition link their preferred problem-solving action pathways to the older part of our brain where emotion resides. We create common sense solutions to today’s problems by applying new knowledge and wisdom, using the matured intelligent cerebral cortex portion of our brain, our “freedom organ.” Self-endorsement is our freedom organ’s powerful means to add sufficient emotion to intelligence to override the established action pathways of instinct and tradition. Now consider the beneficial power of self-endorsement, which is the opposite of our more common habit of engaging in self-putdowns.
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Letter 6: The Mental Freedom Control Panel (MFCP)

Dear World Peace Leader,

Welcome to letter 6 of the mini-course on How to Become a Powerful Force for World Peace and a Mental Wealth Millionaire.

Would you like the power that transforms being one’s own worst enemy into becoming one’s own best friend and lifelong traveling companion? A minority of individuals manage to create a joyous meaningful life experience; we all can make improvements. This letter identifies the eight alternative action pathways available to us, and how to use them to create a wonderful life experience. Accurate labels serve us as switches to selectively turn them “on” or “off.” Two choices consistently create positive outcomes. The remaining six commonly take us on paths we’d best avoid. As you teach yourself to recognize these eight choices, you will create a powerful tool to consistently direct your energy toward happy returns; the harmful choices will atrophy from disuse.

Recall the basic wisdom of two great philosophers! Peanuts, a cartoon created by Charles Schultz, advised that “Happiness is a state of mind.” Epictetus, a 1^st century Greek, told us, “Men feel disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them.” We recognize that many individuals have wealth, status, good looks, connections, and health; yet they are quite miserable. We see others lacking these assets; yet they face their life with enthusiasm and joy because of their mental attitude. I am not suggesting it is better to be without material assets. Given the choice, better to be (and strive to be) “a have” rather than a “have not”. However, material assets do not replace attaining the mind control that is the most significant contributor to your well-being.

In prior letters, I have explained that our way of thinking, feeling, and acting is first determined by two dictators, instinct and tradition. As we mature, we are prone to become a servant to human dictators … unless and until we free our will power. We become our own person by accurately labeling the action paths available to us.

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The seven Mind-freeing, Life-changing, World-saving word-switches

Dear World Peace Leader,

This is letter 5 of the mini-course on How to Become a Powerful Force For World Peace and a Mental Wealth Millionaire. I am especially pleased with this stren (mental strength) because it provides, in abbreviated form, all the essentials to update our thinking to modernity, to “use our best to do our best.” This stren introduces you to seven critical word-switches that make us master of our thinking as they free us from the demands of the early dictators that would control our life – instinct and tradition. You will understand the power of these seven easy word substitutions if you envision the way we redirect a train to an entirely different path and destination by altering one switch at a single location on the train-track. By the simple act of changing the appropriate switch, we not only redirect the train to the preferred destination, we simultaneously prevent the predetermined outcome we don’t want. Dramatically change the course and outcome of your life’s experience by regularly applying these seven simple word-switches. Read the rest of this entry »

The Short List of Concepts to Survive and Thrive in the Nuclear Age    

Dear World Peace Leader,

    This is letter 4 of the mini-course on How to Become a Powerful Force For World Peace and a Mental Wealth Millionaire. I am especially excited about this letter’s wisdom tips because they serve as a foundation for everything that follows.
Our common usage language is deficient in simple words that signal awareness that we are a work-in-progress with a mission and a purpose. Labels call forth concepts. New labels are introduced here to inspire us to become powerful creators of our destiny and wise rulers.

Here are the concepts that enlighten us to who we are and what we may become:

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The Two Sentences That Determine Our Destiny

Dear World Peace Leader,

Welcome to letter 3 of the mini-course on How to Become a Powerful Force For World Peace and a Mental Wealth Millionaire.
Today’s wisdom reveals the single most important action critical to allowing our loved ones to survive and thrive. The actual task is quite easy; the will to proceed is not. Simply replace sentence “A” with sentence “B”; substitute “both…and” for the either/or two-category way of thinking that is currently more prevalent. Sentence A biases us towards destructive aggression. Instinct and tradition hardwire either/or thinking into every native language. Sentence B is a newer way of thinking (ANWOT) that we must initiate to create world peace and a wonderful life experience. The preferred, newer way of thinking is our work-in-progress to make common sense common. We have created a new era in history. Multiple tribes will soon have weapons with ultimate destructive power. As we popularize Einstein’s ANWOT solution to prevent imminent catastrophe, we increase the likelihood that we will survive and thrive. Working together, we will be unstoppable. Read the rest of this entry »

Letter 2: Einstein’s solution to prevent catastrophe and create world peace

Dear World Peace Leader,

This is letter 2 of the mini-course on How to Become A Mental Wealth Millionaire and Powerful Force for World Peace. We can survive and thrive in spite of the dangers of our new era if we work together. Letter 1 explained why our most knowledgeable scientists predict imminent catastrophe and that dangerous leaders unite their followers in destructive action while most persons wish or pray for peace but fail to join in effective peace efforts. Today’s letter explains Einstein’s solution, A Newer Way of Thinking (ANWOT) to make common sense common. You will learn how ANWOT differs from our dominant way of thinking, why we must popularize it, and the skills that create ANWOT. Subsequent letters will provide the easily accessible curriculum that enables anyone to become a powerful force for world peace and create a joyous, purposeful life experience. Read the rest of this entry »

Donald Pet, M.D.

235 East River Drive, #1601

East Hartford, CT 06108

Phone: 860 289-6111 Internet: anwot.org Fax: 860 289-0811

         1/2011 email:ddpet@comcast.net

Become your own genie!

Dear World Peace leader,

The purpose of the Mini-course,
Become a Mental Wealth Millionaire and a Powerful Force for World Peace, is to unleash your passion for world peace and that of one million others by 2011 end. Mental Wealth millionaires are individuals who have acquired sufficient common sense wisdoms to consistently create a joyous meaningful life experience.
With few exceptions, earth’s nearly 7 billion citizens wish or pray for peace but have yet to collaborate to make our home the kinder,
gentler place we desire. Meanwhile, a minority of terrorists organize their followers to take effective action. The result is that violence is winning.

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mission of our nonprofit corporation, The Educational Community, Inc. (EC), is the mission of humanity – we must educate ourselves to practice the humane qualities we preach but have yet learned to act upon. Given our recent rapid proliferation of weapons with ultimate destructive power (WUD), we have precious little time to popularize the wisdoms that will prevent human catastrophe. Virtually every one of our most informed citizens, individually and in organizations, agree. They tell us WUD will be increasingly available in our time and certainly to even more tribes within the lifetime of our children. They also tell us we still have time to prevent catastrophe if we take urgent action. ^{Read the rest of this entry »}