it dawned on me that I still hadn’t answered that letter. I’d found fifteen things to do from nine to three that were not answering the letter. My initial response was, “I should answer the letter.” That’s conformity. “It’s required of me, I should do it.” The second is, “You can’t make me. I don’t have to do that. I can leave it sitting there.” But the minute the observer sees both states, what happens? When I observed both thoughts I sat down and answered the letter.
