At the root of @F-L-O-W beliefs are
the following:

In the brightened Century of Self,
self-importance is key, and we’ve done that, in large part,
marvelously.

Now, the question comes (IHMO):

I can only answer this in part, and
here is this part now.

It is through Nature’s Lottery,
Nurture’s Scaffolding, and the times we live in.

We give too much credit to
ourselves for our "stead" in life.

Almost everything we are is not
because of something we did (which is and of itself, a piece
of Nature’s Lottery)…

THIS IS A SURPRISE to people!

This notion is counter-intuitive to
BS [Blank
Slate].

We have been taught that it was our
hard work, and attention to __________ and whatever, not luck,
not Nature’s Lottery, or Nurture’s Lottery, or the times we’ve
lived in. We were taught it was through our own diligence, our
own efforts, our own decisions, and choice-making that has
produced this "life" we have now, when in fact… we are bit
players!

In general, we just can’t take
credit for much.  It’s the mystery of life that can reduce
almost all of what we thought was "our doing"
— our will, our
motivation, effort, energy, choice, hard work, and so forth.

Please feel free to add to the list
your own "reasons" for why you are the way you are and what
you
BE, DO, HAVE, and BECOME.

NOW, this surprise alone will be
enough of a shock to turn people off to this program, because
we want to claim the rights our self-importance has
provided us…!

For surely, we have seen those lazy
people, those addicts, those ne’r-do-wells, those
_____________ and that is not due to anything other than their
own __________________.

When in fact, I believe and thus
put forward as an @F-L-O-W axiom: We have only participated to a
small extent in any of this… and while it feels like it’s all
us (ego’s game)… we are but the vehicle that experiences,
learns, grows, AND develops as a resultant, not as a cause!

Even waking up in the morning can
be reduced to Nature and Nurture and Time, or NNT, as we might
refer in an equation.

Helpful Hint: At the root of
this primitive belief, which questions the very nature of
everything around us, even that which is in the mirror, it
takes some time to allow the ego to calm down after it
out-of-hand rejects the notion that we are a product of who we
are, and not something we have made.

Action Step: If everything, all of our behavior, can be reduced to
something inborn… then what has emerged can always be
connected to that… and LUCK, if you believe the former is not
luck as well.  It’s not luck really, it’s heredity.

So, what went wrong when one
heredity produces two different results… the participation
with life and the bifurcations at each turn?  In most cases we
never had much to do with it as our choice filters are already
programmed early.  Yet, we can reduce MOST of these unique
appearing resultants to their causal signals… and there we
find ourselves all over again.  <G>

Think about your own life, how much
of where you are right now is due to nature and nurture, and
timing?

It’s hard to conceptualize this
because we have been conditioned to the belief that it is
through our own being, doing, having, and becoming, that
therefore go we.