Another Upgrade: Have a Back-up Form of Support

The second upgrade presented in this book was to have someone support you to read this book and make a decision about all the other upgrades.  In fact, I thought this so important that I set up the chain reaction in such a way that the person who told you about this book and loaned it to you would be your first form of support.  If you didn’t want them to be your support person, you were urged to immediately find another support person or group.

Now I’m about to make the case that it’s essential to have a second support person or group, so that you have a second one in case the first form of support disappears or fades.

In real life, this often happens: your support person may enter a crisis period; or if your support is through a group and not a person, the group reaches the end of its life cycle and breaks apart. 

If and when this happens, if you have another form of support, you can maintain your momentum.  That other support person or group can encourage you to search out another support so that you again have two ongoing forms of support.

I said that I think two forms of support are essential.  This principle is of backing up is called redundancy, and there are many examples:

• Stoplights at an intersection build in a time delay after lights in one direction turn red, and before the light in the other direction turns green. This allows drivers who start through the new green light to not crash into “greedy” drivers who run through the intersection after their light is red.

• Hospitals have emergency power generators for operating rooms, in case the main power goes out in the middle of an operation.

• Airplanes have not one, but two ways to control the plane if the primary system fails. (Double redundancy.)