Page 13 - G-Gold to Lead

I know that you are getting pretty good at this Stinky Thinking stuff. You knew right away that the Young Man’s belief, “I’ve tried that before and it never worked so why try again,” was Stinky Thinking. Why, if I gave up eating corn because the farmer’s dog ran me off or the crop was not ripe the last time I went by or something like that, I would be a mighty skinny crow.
One of the things that we learn in Crow School is, “Just because it did not work today, does not mean it will not work tomorrow.” So we learn to keep trying and working on our best plan. Now we may change this or that until we get our plan to work better but we never let our past mistakes and failures determine our efforts for today.
After all, if I try again and it doesn’t work... so what? Life is full of failures. I once heard a human dad tell his child that Thomas Edison, the man who invented the light bulb, failed to get it to work ten thousand times before he got one that worked. No Stinky Thinking for him. Now, let’s have some Good Thinking for the Young Man and his bullets.
1. What better things could the Young Man have told himself when the Old Man suggested he use the lead to make bullets?
2. What kind of thinking is that?
3. How would he feel if he told himself something better? 4. What might be his behavior?
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