From the author: teach yourself to simply live and laugh, rejoice and love despite any vicissitudes of life. Workshop of Vladimir Rakovsky: “teach yourself to simply live and laugh, rejoice and love despite any vicissitudes of life” Do I have the right impose your technology of life on others? I do not give any recommendations or advice until they ask me for it. I myself am annoyed by people who, having achieved something in this life, suggest to everyone: do as I do. When helping people formulate their life questions, I do not give ready-made recipes. Let everyone find the answers for themselves: in their past, present and future. I don’t want to break into a person’s life or judge someone’s life. My workshop, into which the path is open to everyone, showing people a variety of possibilities, professes the principle: in at any moment you can change your future and learn to laugh, rejoice and love despite any vicissitudes of life. Change yourself. I call this process “destruction of personal history.” When going to new people, you need to leave your “crutches” outside the door and, if you don’t know how to behave in extreme conditions, among people completely incomprehensible to you, act as a small child would act. The whole range of your sensations immediately becomes the property of everyone, no matter how well you play. So just be sincere. If you don’t like something, then don’t like it. If something scares you, be scared. And under no circumstances evaluate this or that action or behavior from the standpoint of your experience. In other words, you become like them. And this is the greatest embodiment. Stanislavsky, shouting his famous “I don’t believe it!” from the audience to the actor, urged him not to act, but to become a character. Create a personality that your individuality could constantly change in accordance with its needs, adapt, a personality that attracted attention and helped it exist... This technology is based on one simple idea - not to fix problems, but simply to design “ourselves” for the task. After all, it is usually much more difficult to remodel than to build from scratch. However, it is not for nothing that the word “ourselves” is put in quotes - we design not exactly ourselves, but the roles we use. A role is something like clothing: if necessary, put it on, if not necessary, take it off. The question is to construct this very role as competently as possible and accurately select it for the desired situation. The result is a rather interesting approach (technology?) in which you can be very creative with your personality, designing it the way you want. By creating the most delightful and exciting characteristics, “sharpening” yourself to achieve the desired goal. You can change several times, during the day becoming, for example, purposeful and driven at work, gentle and loving in the family, interesting and cheerful with friends. You can change something in yourself, read various benefits from others and show your creativity in designing your own thinking.