1. Outwardly Thinking
By,
Marc Schryer
This exercise is to show how to be and think outside of the box, which is you.
Outwardly thinking is the art of thinking and being outside of ourselves.
Since we were children we have been naturally selfish. We have done what was
in our own best interests.
I remember as a pre teen my dad used to say “You are so self-centered.”
I would just stare back at him with a blank look, because I knew he was trying to
teach me a lesson, but there was no explanation to follow as to what self
centered really meant.
Self centered, selfish, self-seeking, self-interest, egotistical, careless of the
feelings of others and egocentric.
These are just some of the words and phrases to describe what some in our
society consider negative type behavior.
I propose that we are naturally this way and that we need to either be trained
to change this or train ourselves.
For most it is easier to pay someone to train us to be this way because we are
either too lazy or don’t have the time.
The time to do what, you might ask.

2. The amount of time it takes to research how to change lifelong ways and
measures of how you normally do things.
This type of research usually takes reading many books on somebody else’s
point of view. Also it takes sifting through that material and grabbing onto good
information and letting the letters and words of little or no value to fall through
into empty space.
All of this takes a lot of time. Time is more valuable now as an adult than when
we were children.
The knowledge that our time is running out is very apparent to us now more
than ever. We now know that everyone who is born on this planet dies here.
For some that is a sad thing, while others see it as a beautiful blessing.
As children we made friends for selfish reasons. As adults we still do that, we
even get married for those same reasons. If you really think about it, everything
we do is somewhat selfish.
For instance, if you have a child you hug them because you love them, right?
Well we also hug them because it makes us feel good to do that. If your child
was covered in slime and you hugged them even though it disgusted you to do
so, that is when you are being self-less.
Other times we become self-less are during tragedies when we don’t have the
time to think about our selves.
If your house was on fire and your child was still inside because you ran out, a
battle would go on inside you even if it were just for an instant.
That battle would be something like this, (Should I go back into the burning
house and risk getting my own flesh burnt and deformed to save my child?)
It would be a normal thought we might have in our sub-conscious, because of
the way we have been programmed for self-preservation.
The only thing that might steer us into action would be the constant screaming
of our child, the onlookers and what they might be thinking.

3. That is an extreme example and I don’t expect all of you to believe or even
agree with that. Because inside all of us would say, “I would not even hesitate.”
We all say that because we all se our selves as hero’s, we all imagine in our
thoughts that we would do something extraordinary any given tragedy.
The truth is that we are all capable of doing extraordinary things but that
hesitation is the self-centered part of us.
I want to show how we can train our responses to be faster during those types
of situations. This means that I don’t expect us to become completely selfless, I
just think we should spend less time thinking about our selves in all aspects of
our lives.
When we go out into the world with the thought of “Who can I help today?” we
will have become better people. We will then be able to train others on how to
be an “Outward Thinker”.
This type of thinking CAN and WILL change the world.