12 Rules for Life (Full) ENGLISH

Itself look like? What does “better” even mean? You don’t know. And it
doesn’t matter that you don’t know, exactly, right away, because you will
start to slowly see what is “better,” once you have truly decided to want it.
You will start to perceive what remained hidden from you by your
presuppositions and preconceptions—by the previous mechanisms of your
vision. You will begin to learn.
This will only work, however, if you genuinely want your life to improve.
You can’t fool your implicit perceptual structures. Not even a bit. They aim
where you point them. To retool, to take stock, to aim somewhere better, you
have to think it through, bottom to top. You have to scour your psyche. You
have to clean the damned thing up. And you must be cautious, because
making your life better means adopting a lot of responsibility, and that takes
more effort and care than living stupidly in pain and remaining arrogant,
deceitful and resentful.
What if it was the case that the world revealed whatever goodness it
contains in precise proportion to your desire for the best? What if the more
your conception of the best has been elevated, expanded and rendered
sophisticated the more possibility and benefit you could perceive? This
doesn’t mean that you can have what you want merely by wishing it, or that
everything is interpretation, or that there is no reality. The world is still there,
with its structures and limits. As you move along with it, it cooperates or
objects. But you can dance with it, if your aim is to dance—and maybe you
can even lead, if you have enough skill and enough grace. This is not
theology. It’s not mysticism. It’s empirical knowledge. There is nothing
magical here—or nothing more than the already-present magic of
consciousness. We only see what we aim at. The rest of the world (and that’s
most of it) is hidden. If we start aiming at something different—something
like “I want my life to be better”—our minds will start presenting us with
new information, derived from the previously hidden world, to aid us in that
pursuit. Then we can put that information to use and move, and act, and
observe, and improve. And, after doing so, after improving, we might pursue
something different, or higher—something like, “I want whatever might be
better than just my life being better.” And then we enter a more elevated and
more complete reality.
In that place, what might we focus on? What might we see?
Think about it like this. Start from the observation that we indeed desire