I think sometimes of people who have been mean to me like Father xxx or K.H. When I do this I hardly think of people who have been good to me like Mr. Toland or Mr. McManus from High School. A good technique for the mind would be to put out the bad people and immediately replace the thought with the good people.
When I was first on board the USS Ponchatoula I was placed in the Engineering division as an Electrician Mate. I was to stand watch in front of the ship’s generators. The controls included some gauges, dials and levers. I was to watch the gauges and turn this thing and flip that thing when it looked like things were going crazy. No one told be what these things meant or how they worked so as a result, things went crazy. When “things went crazy” it put the ship in danger of “losing the load” meaning all electrical power. “Losing the Load” is a pretty serious condition. Because no one rally cared to explain the procedures and meanings of things to me to me I failed at that job.
When I transferred up to the Operations division in the Radio Shack as a Radioman I was put on watch by the receivers and transmitters which had many more gauges, dials and switches, but the other radiomen were willing to tell me what they meant and how to use them. Because the others cared I succeeded very well at that job.
Others have an effect on us. We should try to center our thoughts on those have had a positive affect.
[[I have no idea if I have used the words “affect” and “effect” correctly]]
