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This example shows how I used AI as an augmented thinking partner to step outside the first version of an idea, improve the framing, and create a clearer final result. The article is the visible example. The deeper value is the thinking process behind it.
Original framing from inside the first perspective
When we look at society and the messages that are sent to us as a whole we should really start to ask questions about how we are trained to think. I say trained because we are bombarded by the media with different messages everyday. The messages are usually something that has been sensationalized so that it may capture our attention. When I was first introduced to metaphysics via “the secret” it opened my eyes to a lot of things that we unconsciously do as a society. One of the eye openers is how powerful our thoughts are is creating reality. Even before being exposed to “The Secret” I knew on some level that how I thought determined my successes and failures. The Secret and its message simply resonated with a part of me that was already aware of the power of thought. As a society many people are waking up to this idea. However, it can be a struggle when the media images we get are based on the least getting the most attention. When we allow the media to influence our thinking we are then living our lives from a 20 percent perspective. Here’s what I mean.
Pareto’s Principle
Pareto’s Principle is much more widely known as the “80/20 rule.”
The principle was suggested by management thinker Joseph M. Juran. It was named after the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who observed that 80% of income in Italy was received by 20% of the Italian population. The assumption is that most of the results in any situation are determined by a small number of causes.
This rule, of course, has been applied to many different sectors of society and on many different levels. When it comes to human nature it has been applied in terms of 80 percent being the good or positive and 20 percent being the bad or negative behavior. As a society in many instances we base our feelings on the entire world from a perspective of the 20 percent being the focus of what we need to eradicate or change. More often than not it is less than 10 percent of what is going on negative that the media will turn our attention too and thus cement it into our reality if we allow.
For example, one of the major issues that is going on in the United States at this time is unemployment. The just released numbers is a national unemployment rate at 9.7 percent. The media has defined our economy as being really bad because of the unemployment factor. We get focused in on the 9.7 percent and never think about how good it really is overall. In other words 90.3 percent of the people have jobs! Whether or not it’s the job they want is another story. Trust me I have been there. I know how it feels to have been unemployed. I in no way want to belittle the situation of someone unemployed. But if one focuses on the negative 10% then from a metaphysical and universal law perspective you will attract into your experience all the components necessary to confirm your beliefs.
Another example is cancer. The World Health Organization stated in 2003 that the global cancer rate COULD increase by 50% to 15 million people by the year 2020. Again I do not want to make light of anyone that is suffering from cancer or knows someone that is suffering from cancer. My point being that we have over 6 Billion people in the world. What is the percentage of the 6 billion that COULD have cancer by 2020? Did they mention that the world population increase may be a factor in that percentage? That fact is that the vast majority of the world is cancer free. Yet we are told about the numbers that have cancer. We will even have calculations of the chance that a certain segment of the population can develop the disease that a small fraction of the population has. In other words, let’s say that 1 percent of the world’s population has cancer. People will calculate that a certain segment of t he population has a 35% chance to get what the 1 percent has! Now that is focus!
Understand from a metaphysical perspective
What must we do to develop more jobs in the United States? Answer, focus on the opportunity you now have to start a new business, or find the job of your dreams. What can we do to eradicate cancer? Answer, Focus on the 99% of the world that is healthy and model what they do. There is so much information out now that indicates many diseases are a product of mental conditioning before they ever manifest physically. If you ever get the chance read anything by Dr. Bruce Lipton. He has done amazing studies on the power of belief and health. One of his books is titled, “ The Biology of Belief.”
From a metaphysical perspective any one that is aware of the Law of Attraction will understand that we will attract those things in our lives that we vibrate with. From a more in-depth perspective and the universal laws know that thought is cause. Learning and understanding that concept alone can change your life. What this law says is that nothing will manifest in your physical reality until it is first conceived in the mind. Any thing that manifest in your physical world is essentially symbolic of your inner world. The previous sentence is truly powerful, especially if you want to be a conscious creator of your experience. It strips away all pretenses that someone else is in control of what happens in your life. Another way of stating that sentence is that your life is a direct result of how you think. Are you going to live from a 20 percent perspective and give your power to the media and others? Or are you going to live from the metaphysical perspective understanding that you are a soul having a human experience and with that powerful understanding realizing that you are the initiator and creator of all in your physical world. The choice is yours, you can be a creator or a victim, but you can’t be both. The 80/20 rule is always in effect, what is your perspective?
Reframed version with clearer structure, tone, and audience fit
There is a subtle kind of conditioning that many people never question.
It is not only what they have been taught to believe.
It is what they have been trained to notice.
In practice, this means many people are not relating to life as it is. They are relating to the most amplified, fear-inducing, emotionally charged slice of it. They are building their internal world from what is loudest, not what is truest.
And over time, that distortion becomes identity.
This is one of the deepest challenges in transformation work.
Because most people are not consciously choosing the lens through which they interpret life. They are inheriting it from media, family systems, culture, social repetition, and their own unresolved emotional patterns. Then they call that lens “reality.”
But often it is not reality.
It is overexposure.
We all know some version of the 80/20 principle: a small percentage of causes often creates a large percentage of effects.
But there is another way to understand it.
A small portion of what is broken can dominate awareness so completely that it begins to feel like the whole picture.
A painful event becomes a total identity.
A repeated fear becomes a worldview.
A cultural narrative becomes a nervous system.
A client can have wealth, access, intelligence, beauty, support, and extraordinary possibility, and still organize their life around scarcity, rejection, collapse, or emotional threat.
Not because those things are the whole truth.
Because those things have become the dominant lens.
That is the trap.
The loudest 20% starts masquerading as reality.
What you repeatedly attend to does not just affect your mood.
It shapes your perception.
It influences your emotional baseline.
It calibrates your nervous system.
It conditions what you expect.
And eventually, it informs who you believe yourself to be.
Attention is not passive.
Attention trains identity.
This matters deeply for anyone doing spiritual, energetic, emotional, or identity-based work.
Because if someone is constantly focused on betrayal, lack, instability, disapproval, disease, conflict, or what is missing, they do not merely feel bad. They begin to organize the self around those patterns.
At that point, the issue is no longer just emotional.
It is structural.
This is especially important when working with affluent or high-capacity individuals.
From the outside, they may appear powerful, resourced, and expansive.
But inner reality is often telling a different story.
Many high-functioning people are still living in perceptual survival.
They are scanning for loss.
Scanning for irrelevance.
Scanning for disapproval.
Scanning for the next thing to manage, protect, or control.
Their lives may have expanded, but their identity has not caught up.
They have success without safety.
Access without peace.
Achievement without inner coherence.
This is why identity reform matters.
Because no amount of external increase can liberate a person whose self-concept is still organized around the loudest distortions in their inner world.
If someone is identified with struggle, they will continue to notice struggle.
If they are identified with inadequacy, they will keep finding evidence that they are not enough.
If they are identified with instability, they will interpret life through instability even when support is available.
This is not because they are weak.
It is because identity is confirmatory.
It looks for evidence to preserve itself.
That is why real transformation is not simply about insight, awareness, or even healing in the conventional sense.
It is about refusing to build the self around the most fractured, painful, and over-amplified part of life.
That is a different level of work.
And it requires discernment.
At a certain point, healing is no longer only about processing wounds.
It becomes about governing perception.
It becomes about deciding what gets to organize consciousness.
It becomes about ending the habit of giving the smallest, noisiest, most distorted slice of reality the final word over identity.
This is not denial.
It is not bypassing.
It is not pretending pain does not exist.
It is recognizing that pain is real without allowing it to become sovereign.
That distinction is everything.
Because many people think they are being realistic when they are actually being conditioned.