Chapter II. Pendulums
Study guide section for this chapter →
Terms you must own
- Pendulum — define it in one sentence, say what creates it and what it feeds on, and name what it is not (a person, or the group's buildings and equipment).
- Adherent — say what makes someone an adherent and why he does not notice it.
- Destructive pendulum — state the one trait he says always identifies it.
- Favorite — say who the pendulum promotes and why that is not a reward.
- Lock-on — describe the loop between adherent and pendulum in two sentences.
- Puppet strings — name five and say which he calls strongest.
- Ignoring (versus avoiding) — state the difference and say which one works.
- Dissonance — say what you radiate and what happens to the pendulum's sway toward you.
- Gentle dodge — say what you do with a pendulum's first blow and what you do next.
- Rent yourself out — say what you do and what you refuse to do. He never unpacks the phrase.
- Suspended state — say how you get into it and why it is no better than dependence.
- Personal pendulum — say what separates it from the pendulums of others.
Carried forward
Transurfing · Alternatives space · Sector · Lifeline · Thought energy · Choice versus wish
Objectives
0 of 14 ticked
explain Evidence: write a two-sentence definition, then name two dead and two living pendulums, one of them not human. [0:01:45] [0:02:57] [0:03:50]
explain Evidence: use his bureaucracy example, then say why Napoleon's few happy days matter to the argument. [0:05:01] [0:07:06] [0:21:50]
recall Evidence: write five traits from memory; answer review question 1 in the guide. [0:09:30] [0:10:25] [0:12:24] [0:16:46]
explain Evidence: draw the loop with two arrows, one each way, and label what flows along each. [0:23:09] [0:24:19] [0:25:41]
explain Evidence: answer review question 2; list three strings he names that are not emotions in the usual sense (habit, duty, complexes). [0:29:16] [0:32:20] [0:34:07] [0:36:09]
analyse Evidence: answer review question 3 using the apple-hater, then say which step of the chain he supports only by assertion. [0:41:33] [0:43:49] [0:49:13]
explain Evidence: answer review question 4; add one sentence on the barking dog. [0:48:22] [0:50:29] [0:51:09] [0:53:31]
apply Evidence: write the steps for a client, relative or official, in the order he gives them; do Desk work 2 for the irritation you choose. [0:55:16]–[0:59:53]
apply Evidence: pick a recurring irritation, write the unexpected act or the swapped emotion, and try it this week. [1:02:27] [1:03:55] [1:05:28] [1:08:40]
apply Evidence: do Desk work 3: name what the person lacks (health, confidence, peace of mind) and the picture you would hold. [1:09:26] [1:12:19] [1:13:58]
explain Evidence: answer review question 6; restate each instruction in your own words and note where his wording stays vague. [1:15:34] [1:18:17] [1:19:38] [1:21:16]
explain Evidence: answer review question 7. [1:23:02] [1:25:21] [1:26:21]
analyse Evidence: write one paragraph saying what test would tell a personal pendulum from a foreign one; he gives it only as a homework question. [0:05:01] [0:15:38] [1:22:28] [1:25:21]
analyse Evidence: take the stadium, the oil patents and discussing disasters until you become the victim; state why the third can read as blaming victims. [0:11:23] [0:21:25] [0:42:48]
Readiness check
Answer these without looking anything up.
- What forms a pendulum, and what happens to it when its adherents leave?
- Why does a favorite believe he earned his position?
- How does an angry critic of the government end up feeding it?
- Why does worrying about something you dread move you toward it?
- Ignoring versus avoiding: which lets the thing into your space?
- A boss piles work on you. What do you do in the first minute, and what next?
- Which three methods stop a pendulum's swing, and which opponent do you not try them on?
- Why is the suspended state a failure, and what does he say to do instead?
The next chapter, The Wave of Fortune, assumes you hold one idea: a pendulum is a structure that runs on your attention and emotion and pulls you toward lifelines you did not choose, so that you can tell it apart from a structure that asks nothing of you.