What Should I Not Do?

A question was then asked: "What then should I do?" This question always arises in everyone's mind. The Work-answer is about what you should not do. The question should be: "What then should we not do?" It is just here that the Work comes in.

The Work teaches a great many things that we should not do, for example, that we should not identify with our negative emotions, and so on. But such is our impatient nature that we want to have a definite answer as to what we should do. In fact, our whole psychology is based on this idea —i.e. "Tell me exactly what I should do."

Maurice Nicoll, “Commentary on One’s Level of Being" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 3, p. 846)