In developing Psychohistory, a question of what people will do is central to prediction. What makes one society develop one way and a different society act in another way. I believe that the key to this is to be found in understanding myth. If we expand the definition of myth to be a characteristic that governs human social organization, then with this definition is a key to Psychohistory. Myth seems to be the game plan of each society-the underlying pattern of social behavior. If we take a survey of societies throughout history, and throughout the world of the present, the myth appears to form a view of the world and an expectation of how people should behave. Within the myth lie the rules for social, economic, and political organization. The reason for choosing myth is that there must be some notion of what is common to all social organizations. It is with this idea, a model of the myth can be developed. If there is a way to somehow characterize how myth works, how it interacts with other myths, how it controls and manages resources, a way for statistical understanding may be available.

In Psychohistory, we are seeking a mathematical way of predicting behavior. What better way doing this than to understand those beliefs that governs this behavior in first place. Each society expends resources to pass the myth of that society to the next generation-the teaching of history and other subjects. Of course the nature of the teaching depends upon the society. Industrialized societies have a number of years of primary education. Tribal societies have a more simple ritualistic form. I think there is a great resource of predictability if a model of the myth phenomenon can be developed.