If you are ‘into’ personal development you may find a bewildering array of techniques with increasing fancy names like the “the abundant mind-power cosmic manifestation secret playkit thingie” (my apologies if there actually IS something called that!). They all promise to access something ‘hidden’ about human nature.  It’s easy to forget that sometimes the basics of ‘common sense’ work just as well. Perhaps sometimes we try to be too sophisticated. People haven’t really changed over the centuries so this is why great books like the bible still contain timeless wisdom. But our society is built upon the ‘upgrade’ mentality – that for something to be valuable it must be new and better than before. This is not always true!