6 - Engineering..and something else - part 2

I've already read 5 chapter of my book, the same which, hopefully, will help me to understand and develop a new image of myself. As I've written in the last post, at the get go I was such skeptic that I never expected to feel completely plunge in the reading like a I'm.

Chapter by chapter, I'm becoming more involved in the concepts and in the ideas brought out by the writer. It's something new for me because, as I mentioned in the last post, I've ever believed in physics and math, the two pillars where I built my knowledge and my beliefs on. Subjects as psycology and philosphy, or concepts as development of ourself have never been considered in my thoughts.

But maybe I'm changing my mind. I don't have the whole picture yet, however this book and my new life overseas (concerning even the choices that brought me here) are showing me other aspects and characteristics of me and my life that I didn't know. It's like I've been unhooked from my old life and someone's dropped me in a new world. Everything surrounding me it's different, it ain't necesseraly worse, but is still about to discover it.

 

However, there's some concepts which aren't very clear to me, at least they are conceptually differents from my way of thinking. Foremost, the writer says that if you wanna achieve your goal, you need to set it out and then leave that your self machine works for you. (The self machine, in the proposal of the author, is a mechanism placed inside each of us that allows to reach our achievements, overcoming all the difficulties that we can find along our way. The mechanism itself needs, at the same time, something to works, as the cars need petrol to go.)

It seems like if I decided to set an achievement, perhaps to obtain a good english certification, and I didn't do anything to achieve it. It sounds quite strange. I should study, make some efforts and attempts to improve my learning, but, if I followed the theory which is behind the book, I should stay on my bed looking at the wall and everything will be fine. In fact, I'll be able to attain my achievement, 'cause it will be someone (the self machine) that it will steer me toward my finish line.

 

Apparently, there's something wrong. The main meaning of the book must be disconnected from the example as I wrote above. I believe that the intentions of the autor were inherent somewhat more "spiritual", not strictly correlated with practical objects or desires. In a nutshell, you need to dwell upon, think about your big achievements that you wanna reach in your life and pursue them without efforts, but thinking in a positive way and feeding your selfmachine with your beliefs, your dreams and your optimism. You need to forget the dowside of the things, your weaknesses and your inadequacies; moreover, don't try to push yourself toward the goal, because could prevent you to attain your goal itself.

 

Well, I've just described what the writer wrote in his book that rappresents his thought, but what's mine? What are my goal and my accomplishments?Am I doing the right things to achieve them? Am I on the right way?