"THE SOLUTION"

The solution is very simple. All we have to do to make our lives work is set up a system of evaluating
that includes rules that are achievable, that make it easy to feel good and hard to feel bad, that
constantly pull us in the direction we want to go. Certainly it's useful to have some rules that give us
pain. We need to have limits; we need to have some kind of pressure that drives us. I can't taste fresh
orange juice unless I have a glass, something with limits to contain the juice. We all have limits, both
as a society and as individuals. For starters, though, we should at least rewire ourselves so we can
experience pleasure more consistently in life. When people are feeling good all the time, they tend to
treat others better, and they tend to maximize their potential as human beings.
So what's our goal? Once we design our values, we must decide what evidence we need to have before
we give ourselves pleasure. We need to design rules that will move us in the direction of our values,
that will clearly be achievable, using criteria we can control personally so that we're ringing the bell
instead of waiting for the outside world to do it.
Based on these requirements, Laurie changed the order of some of her values and completely changed
her rules for achieving them.