We’re all familiar with the two most common ways of processing information, and the most common ways to do either of them are to do first and then think later. If you’re like most people, you usually do first and then think later. For the most part, we all do the first way first. If you look at the world through the lens of first, you’ll notice that only a tiny amount of the information we receive is actually first.
This is a problem when we process information. We constantly need to sort through it, identify what to focus on, and then select what to think about next. In the first method of processing information, it seems like we just sit there and sort through our information. But in the second method of processing information, our brains are constantly going back to the first step and looking for the next thing.
A second problem, as with the first method, is that we process information in a way that doesn’t make sense to us. This is also a problem when we’re trying to process information. We say things like, “I’ll remember that,” but we rarely remember because we’re constantly looking for the next thing.
The second step is the thing that makes all of this work so well. It’s the step that helps us to remember the information we just processed. For example, if we saw a picture of my dad, we would look through all the pictures and see what had happened to him over the years and what we had done for him and what we could do for him.
You’ve got to remember to save your preferentially. This is the point at which we look at the picture and say, “That person is going to die.” We look for that person’s death again and again and again.
In the case of a picture of my dad, we would start by looking at other people who were the same age as my dad and see what they were up to. Then we look through pictures of people my age and see what they were up to. We then look through pictures of people older than my age and see what they were up to.
The trouble with looking at things that are going to happen in the future is that we tend to think of the future as “what could happen next.” This is all well and good, but it can lead to bad results. When we look at the past, we tend to look at the past as “what could happen in the past,” which is an inherently problematic way to think about the past.
If you want to get a sense of what the future might look like for you, you can look at the past. If you want to get a sense of what the past might look like for someone else, you can look at the past. But when we look at the future, we look at the future as what could have happened in the past. That’s bad.
But if we look at the past, we tend to think we could be better. We tend to think that we could be better, because the past is something that could have been better. That is a little bit more problematic than just looking at the past. As we look at the future, we tend to think we could be better, because the future is something that could have happened in the past. That is a little bit more problematic than just looking at the past.
In the past, we tend to think we could be better because we could have been better. But in the future, we tend to think we could be better, because the future is something that could have happened in the past. That’s a little bit more problematic than just looking at the past.