Good guys have weighty responsibilities and are so focussed on their tasks that they are not so much in touch with their instinctive selves as the bad guys. Good guys are functional learners and have stretched and developed their cognitions so that their actions are much less related to their basic instincts. The happyness of functional learners is contingent for example on meeting the lofty goals at work which they have set themselves.

Bad guys on the other hand are dysfunctional learners who have not learnt to control and re-express their instincts. They live with abandon, are curious and interested, but ulimately they are also unsocialized. They don't reflect for example on consequences, such as the sorrow of the mother, the weeping widow, or the myriad of other ramifications that can result from throwing caution to the wind.

I am not saying that the good guys (i.e. the functional learners) can learn much from the bad guys (i.e. the dysfunctional learners). To keep our world working in the complex and interlinked way in which it does, we need to continually expand our goals, our conscientiousness, our emotional intelligence and our reflection so that we can continually find ways to improve what we do.

To be a good guy is hard work, but sometimes we should not forget that the simple pleasures of life which match out instinctive needs can provide as much meaningful reward as the satisfaction which we get when we meet the more complex goals that we have set.

So, good guys, take a moment to reflect. Rationalize if you must. Be conscientious about it if you want. Make it one of your goals. Just remember that there is real pleasure in the simple joys of life which appeal more to our basic instincts. Take time for family, spend a moment looking at the stars, enjoy the walk in the forest or on the beach. Functional learners know the importance of attaining the simple pleasures of life as well as know how how to chase and obtain the complex ones.

The bad guys still have to learn these secrets.

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Until my next newsletter!

Chris Jackson