Why Quantum Physicists Don't Get Fat by Kuhn Gregory

Author:Kuhn, Gregory [Kuhn, Gregory]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-07-04T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve - But You’re Telling the Wrong Stories

“How wonderful that we’ve met with a paradox. Now we have hope of making some progress.”

Niels Bohr

Physicist

Nobel Prize Winner

You and I tell stories that assign meaning to everything in our life, every moment of every day. We tell stories about all the people, places, events, and circumstances we encounter, assigning value and meaning to every single detail of our lives. Why, we’re such good storytellers that we put Mother Goose to shame!

Obviously, you are reading this book because you weigh more than you want. And your unwanted weight is a direct byproduct of a specific problem you have developed with your storytelling that, when solved, will allow you to freely use your two new paradigms (energy-based and holistic) and quickly achieve your ideal body. Conversely, until you solve your storytelling problem, all the weight-loss diets, fads, gimmicks, pills, and potions in the world can’t help you.

I’m about to solve this problem for you and you can then begin using your two new paradigms to lose weight quickly. Allow me to illustrate your storytelling problem through three examples. You may find these examples odd or even unsettling, but read through them carefully because they illustrate a problem you must change before you’ll find true and lasting weight loss.

Let’s start with an example of a, perhaps, ludicrous event with a very obvious story you’d tell about it: kicking an innocent puppy out a tenth-story window. If you surveyed everyone in your city, every person would definitively say that kicking a puppy out a window is “bad.” I concur and I’m sure you do too. But that does not mean that the act of kicking a puppy out a window is inherently “bad”, it means we are all telling the same story about it; we all make the same judgment and rightfully so! I wouldn’t expect anyone to say, “I’m not going to call kicking a puppy out the window ‘bad’ because that’s merely a story I’m telling myself; kicking a puppy out the window might be ‘good’.” Kicking a puppy out a window is bad!

And here’s the most important point of this first example - because you, like everyone else, tell yourself that kicking an innocent puppy out a tenth-story window is “bad”, I know you would never kick a puppy out a tenth-story window!

For our second example let’s use a, perhaps, unsettling event with a less obvious story you’d tell about it: forcing someone to leave a homeless shelter where he has been staying. If you, once again, surveyed everyone in your city, you would undoubtedly get a mixed reaction of “good” and “bad”. Some stories would angrily call the action “bad”, as in “You’re taking away his last hope and all but signing his death certificate!” While other stories might call the action decidedly “good”, as in “You’re making room for someone more deserving and this is probably the tough love he really needs to get motivated to change his life!” We’d probably find most of the stories falling somewhere in-between those two extremes.

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