Akira The Don, Scott Adams - How To Program Reality lyrics

Let me show you my path towards
Figuring out the user interface
It's important that you know how I
Got there so that you
Can have some trust that there's
Something to it
When I was a kid, I was influenced
As was my mother, by the book
"The Power of Positive Thinking"
By Norman Vincent Peale
It suggested that you could somehow
Change your life or maybe
You were changing reality if you
Could simply think positively
Think positively (Think positively)
Think positively (Think positively)
Think positively (Think positively)

So this was my first introduction to
The concept that maybe reality was
Not fixed and something that you were
A victim of, but rather
You could do something
There was some mechanism, some technique
Some tools you could use to get
Some control over your environment
And your life as opposed to
Having it control you and that was my first
Thought that reality could
Be programmable in at least some simple sense
But of course, i embarked on a lifetime of
Exploration to find out if
I could find out more about
How to program reality

Think positively think positively
Think positively how to program reality
Think positively think positively
Think positively

That led me to learn meditation
I became a trained hypnotist
Of course, mushrooms
Let you see the world in
A completely different reality
And all these things, from studying all
The different religions to
Doing affirmations
Which is really just visualizing what you
Want and writing it out everyday
(Visualizing what you want
Writing it down everyday)
And then learning persuasion
These all have the same cumulative effect
Of teaching me that reality
Was indeed far more subjective than
You're led to believe
When I say reality is subjective
I don't mean that there isn't
Some base reality that's real
What I mean is that we
Don't have access to it
In other words, just take religion
Two people with completely
Different religions can go into a
Store and they can shop
They can get married, have children
They don't really need to reconcile the fact
That they live in different worlds
One thinks there's an afterlife
One thinks there's reincarnation
One thinks there's nothing and yet we
All survive and thrive and reproduce
There's nothing to suggest that
Our brains are the
Kind of brains that can understand reality
Instead, all of the evidence suggests that we
Can put filters, optionally
And somewhat subjectively
On our reality and the thing that
We deal with is a filter
We're not dealing with
The underlying reality
Our filter on it is the
Thing that's real to us
And you can change those filters
So that's the important part
And you can change them fairly easily
And if you find a filter
That predicts better and makes you happier
Well, that's the better filter
Even if it isn't a
Better approximation of reality
What matters is you're happy
What matters is you're getting what
You need outta life

Think positively think positively
Think positively how to program reality
Think positively think positively
Think positively

Program reality you can change those filters
Change those filters change those filters
How to program reality think positively
Think positively think positively

So, once you accept that
There's a subjective reality
You're starting to get ready to accept
The user interface for that reality