Physics is the law. Everything else is a recommendation. – Elon Musk and REBT

Summary:

1. Discipline your mind to avoid confusing empirically supported natural laws with recommendations, preferences, and good ideas.
2. Confusing one of your preferences as a natural law that you and others must follow will likely lead to emotional disturbance when your preferences are unmet.
3. Seek to take your rigid, dogmatic, anti-scientific ideas and transform them into solid preferences. Restate the content of your rigid attitude as a strong preference, wish, or desire to attain a psychologically healthy state of mind.
4. Incentivize yourself and others to fulfill your preferences. REBT does not encourage resignation.
5. Avoid confusing healthy philosophical acceptance with unhealthy resignation.
6. Hold preferences for civil behavior from others and optimal functioning for yourself, but see that the universe does not compel you and others to fulfill these preferences.
7. Acknowledge that a strong preference is flexible and is not synonymous with flimsy.