A Letter to Humanity: You Were Engineered for Success

 

You were engineered for success. This letter to humanity reveals the Psycho-Cybernetics principles behind goals, mistakes, and your creative mechanism.

A Letter to Humanity

Dear Humanity,

I’ve been watching you. Not from above, but from within each of you. I am the quiet mechanism Maxwell Maltz once called your "servo-mechanism." You built airplanes, painted the Sistine Chapel, crossed oceans on faith and math. But lately, you seem to forget how you did it.

So let me remind you.

1. You are teleological.  

You were built to aim. Your automatic success mechanism does not care how confused the path looks today. It only asks for one thing: a target. A goal conceived of as "already in existence - now." When you supply the goal, you activate machinery in your nervous system that starts steering you there. The "means whereby" is not your job to micromanage. Think in terms of the end result, and the means will often take care of themselves.

Stop demanding the entire map before you take the first step. Set the destination. Move.

2. Mistakes are not failure. They are navigation.  

Do not be afraid of temporary failures. Every guided missile reaches its target by going forward, making mistakes, and immediately correcting course. That is not a flaw in the design. That is the design. 

You correct, therefore you arrive.  

You never fall if you refuse to move, but you also never arrive.

3. Remember the success. Forget the error.  

Skill of any kind is accomplished by trial and error. You try, you miss, you mentally correct your aim. But once the successful motion is achieved, the way to lock it in is by forgetting the past errors and remembering the successful response so it can be imitated. 

Your memory is not a courtroom for prosecuting yourself. It is a library for storing what works. Burn the case files of your failures. Keep the blueprints of your wins.

4. Stop jamming your own machinery.  

You must learn to trust your creative mechanism to do its work. It operates below consciousness, spontaneously, according to present need. It does not come with guarantees in advance. It comes into operation as you act. 

You jam it with anxiety. You jam it by demanding proof before you move. You jam it by trying to force it with too much conscious effort. 

Do not "make it" work. Let it work.  

Do the thing, and you shall have the power. Act as if it is there, and it will come through.

5. You were engineered for success.  

This is not poetry. It is your specification sheet. Every human being has been literally "engineered for success" by his Creator. You have access to a power greater than yourself. That means you.

If that is true, then the old picture of yourself as unworthy, as "meant" to fail, must be in error. Emerson was right: There are no great and no small. There is only on-target and off-target. And off-target is correctable.

So here is my charge to you:

Pick a target. Not ten. One. Something that matters. See it as already existing.

Move. Expect course corrections. Welcome them. They are evidence that you are moving.

Study your wins. Rehearse them in your mind. Let the feeling of success sink into your nervous system.

Trust the mechanism. Your job is to supply the goal and the action. Its job is to supply the how.

You do not need to be an engineer to drive this system. You just need to use it. You have been using it all along whenever you learned to walk, to speak, to love. You simply forgot it was there.

Read this. Not once. Often. Think intently about the implications, and "hammer home" its truths to yourself. Then look for examples in your own life, and in the lives of others, which illustrate the creative mechanism in action. You will find them.

You are not broken. You are not lost. You are simply an auto-pilot with no destination set, or an auto-pilot fighting its own guidance system.

Set the coordinates. Take your hands off the wheel. And let it work.

With faith in your design,  

The Success Mechanism Within You