At the first sign of negative thinking, use the Grateful Flow; negativity is your cue. Remember, the purpose of a cue is to get you to use the tool immediately, even if it doesn’t seem urgent. This is particularly important with the Grateful Flow because negative thinking puts most of us into the Black Cloud without our even being aware of it.

Close your eyes and use the Reversal of Desire on something you normally avoid. Feel yourself starting to move forward. Now see those around you, inspired by your forward motion, using the tool on whatever they’re avoiding. See millions of people embracing pain and as a result, moving forward in their lives. How does the society you’re imagining

Frankl affirmed what we observed earlier—that whatever your goals are in the outside world, life has its own goals for you. If there is a conflict between these agendas, life will win.

We’re trapped because of a universal human expectation that the world will treat us fairly. This is a cherished, childish assumption—“If I’m good, the world will be good to me.”

When you move toward it, pain shrinks. When you move away from it, pain grows. If you flee from it, pain pursues you like a monster in a dream. If you confront the monster, it goes away.

When consumers say, “taking care of us,” they really mean exonerating us from the struggle. But the story explains that God’s real “job” is to keep us in the struggle. This view of God doesn’t go down well when your ultimate goal is a life of ease.

Any time we feel like we’ve grown beyond the need for the tools is an immediate cue to use Jeopardy.

As she put it, “I guess I can’t even find my real self unless I express it.”

We care about what we achieve on the outside; the universe is interested in who we are on the inside.