4Understand that you do not respond to stimuli, but to stimuli as you interpret them. 5Your interpretation thus becomes the justification for the response. 6That is why analyzing the motives of others is hazardous to you. 7If you decide that someone is really trying to attack you or desert you or enslave you, you will respond as if he had actually done so, because you have made his error real to you. 8To interpret error is to give it power, and, having done this, you will overlook the truth.
