Your comments on Confusion interest me. Confusion was something I became interested in many years ago when in the Navy steaming boilers.
On occasion we would lose fires, the lights would go out and it was a mad panic to get things started again. At this moment it was total chaos and no one knew what to do. I finally had enough of this scene repeating itself and just observed what went on. When this moment hit everything was pure instinct but no one had any experience for dealing with this. The possibility of having a boiler explosion and getting cooked in seconds was very real, there was some justification for the panic.
So in my search I found a book by L. Ron Hubbard (I'm not selling scientology or advise it to anyone) tittled "Problems of Work" which he discusses "Confusion and the Stable Datum". This was the first place ever that this subject was addressed to my knowledge. I'm using this application loosely, but when confusion hits you have to mentally make some decision wwhether it is right or wrong, once you have a stable datum to operate from you are out of confusion.
I took this to the ship and tried it out the next time we lost power. So thinking before hand what would be the best "stable datum" to throw out there for all the guys I yelled to the Burnerman to light a torch. This really was ahead of where we where in preparing to lights fires again but everyone saw the torch and knew what to do. The confusion was gone. We went from getting back on line in an hour to maybe fifteen minutes with no panic. All I could say to myself was "Wow!" So I have to give Ron some credit there.
This is an extreme case of confusion. There are many other kinds that come into ones life. Sometimes you have that one I call the "developement confusion" when you are growing and learning. You are shedding old ideas and picking up new ones. Your mental machinery is breaking down and has to be replaced with new better stuff to continue to function at a higher efficiency. Education really helps and so do tools like Holosync (am I starting something here?) Usually these are slower more mundane cycles of confusion like midlife crisis or possibly depression that everyone gets at some intensity or another.
These types I have found that it is best to just stick to your guns and continue doing what you where doing when it started. Big changes are ahead so it is worth doing.
Best of Luck
Jeff
