A great place to start with your thoughts and actions, but what about how you react to them? Is your mindset different from yours? If you need to start from the beginning, I suggest you read Chapter 9, “Your Mind: What Is Your Environment?” for a quick primer.
My bad, I meant to include the rest of Chapter 9 as well. It’s a short read that covers the basics of what an environment is. My mistake.
The environment is nothing more than a set of physical and psychological factors that give us a sense of self and a sense of identity. The environment is also a set of behaviors that you adopt that are aimed at creating a particular feeling and feeling you feel.
So think of the environment as like a series of actions and behaviors that you follow to feel and identify as you go through life. Now that we’ve addressed the basics, let’s move on to the psychology.
The psychology of the environment is one of the reasons I use the term “environment” in this book. I don’t think I’ve ever used it, but I think it’s easy to use as a way of referring to a physical or psychological environment if you have some kind of mental state that’s just like the physical environment. It’s like a mind. It’s like a body.
To be a good environment, you need to be one in which you are aware of the environment. When you are aware of the environment, you are consciously engaging with it. To be aware of the environment, you must focus your attention. This is hard and often frustrating, so the next time you are doing something that is not a conscious effort, think about the environment a little more.
This is one of the biggest challenges you face as a writer. I know many of you are already thinking, “I would like to write about the human race and how it should work.” But you have to remember that you will be writing about the human race in the future. That’s not going to get you anywhere. What I’m trying to say is that writing about humans and their environment is an experience that will make it challenging and rewarding.
I always feel like I am writing about humans in the future, but I also know that its going to take far more than a few paragraphs to convey that. If you can break it down into smaller ideas with fewer words, you have more room to tell a true story.
I think the idea that you may be writing about people in the future is a perfect example. If you can break down the human’s experience into smaller ideas, then you’re doing yourself a favor by showing people that they are actually human.
That’s not to say you should ever feel like you’re writing about a real person. But if you can break it down into smaller ideas, you can show people that they’re actually human, but their experience might be a bit more twisted than you imagine.