Pronoia and Abundance

A week ago, I had just finished my first day of Craig Duswalt’s Rock Your Life Conference in Frisco, Texas. (You can just call it Dallas if you’re not local.) Besides being a conference for entrepreneurs, the event had a strong motivational bent. 

One of the first speakers was actor Glenn Morshower from 24, Transformers, Ozark, and other productions. But that day, he had his philosopher’s hat on. He gave us a new word, pronoia. Pronoia is a state of mind that is the opposite of paranoia. Whereas a person suffering from paranoia feels that persons or entities are conspiring against them, a person experiencing pronoia feels that the world around them conspires to do them good. Morshower declared that, indeed, the Universe does conspire to give us good and give it abundantly. He cautioned that we consider carefully what we ask for because the Universe is most likely going to give it to us. 

That’s all true. A species small than the apex predators — “Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” got to run the whole planet. Even better, run it in comfort. Lions and tigers and bears don’t have heaters or air conditioners. They don’t have refrigerators and freezers to keep their dinners fresh for midnight snacks. The only really big danger we people face is … other people. 

Let’s remember to keep that pronoia thing going and remember there is a vast abundance, plenty for all.

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