Top Ten List of Human Programming

For the most part, it is very difficult...extremely difficult...frustratingly difficult to overcome a large part of our human programming. However, one step I found that helps me in becoming more successful at (incrementally) overcoming programming is to draw up a list of my top ten "weaknesses".

The making of the list helps me in two ways:
1. it is a form of acknowledgment, an act that melts away my pride and fosters increased humility thereby opening the doorway to success
2. it gives me a focal point to direct my energy and efforts to

Let's do a little exercise together and just list things that we might consider to be forms of programming. For now, let us just list things as quickly as they come to our minds with very little thought. We can reflect on and refine these later on. I offer you the results of my doing this exercise to help illustrate and give you a better grasp of what exactly I consider as human programming.

Here is a partial list of things that I come up with when I do this exercise:
fear
fear of this
fear of that
self-preservation
desire to hoard valuable knowledge for ourselves
desire to hoard things
tit-for-tat
eye for an eye
tooth for a tooth
judge others
harshly judge others
condemn others
get discouraged easily
quick to anger when we perceive a wrong done to us
wallow in self-pity on the wrong done to us
harbor hate that last forever
envy when others have what we don't
jealousy when others get the attention that we don't
desire to be heard
desire to have our say
desire to display our intellect
desire to impress
desire to be put on a pedestal
desire for acceptance
being critical of others
control over others
control over how things are done
control over our lives
rebellion
desire to do things we are prohibited from doing
romantic love
desire to be desired
desire for sex
desire for variety in sexual partners
look at others as objects
treat others as objects
desire for variety in things and activities
boredom
losing interest in things
losing interest in people
getting tired of things
getting tired of people
inflicting violence on others
pleasure in killing
destruction of things
destruction of people
destruction of anything
condemnation of others
harboring hate
indulging in the senses
desire for pleasure
perceiving the worst interpretation
self-pity
insecurity
longing for attention
longing for love
longing for fame
longing for power
longing to possess
consumption
disregard for others
disdain for others
laziness
mistrust
the need for affirmation
need for others
need to have a baby
need need need
judging others
second guessing others
putting down others
need to feel superior
need to be acknowledged
need for acceptance in social groups
need for love
need for attention
using office resources for our personal use
need for people to pander to us
use of our power and position to gain more things for ourselves
need to dominate others
need to subjugate others
need to destroy others
pride
desire to be powerful
desire to be all-knowing
desire to have wisdom
desire to see and know the future
desire to be god
desire to do things other have not managed to do
desire to discover things
desire to figure out things others have not
desire for dominance
desire for prominence
desire to eat
desire to sleep
desire to be lazy
desire for freedom to do anything we want

What's on your list?

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