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Directed thinking (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠reality-thinking: the images inside the mind are made to follow one another in the same strict causal order as events outside — which is why it tires us.

Directed thinking (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠always a speech to others: as long as we think in a directed way, we are thinking for others and talking to them.

Directed thinking (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠even in the loneliest thinker alive, just the first stirring of a shout to the tribe that water has been found or wolves are circling the camp.

Directed thinking (n.) and ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠fantasy thinking are two kinds of thinking: the one is exhausting, verbal, made for others, and copies reality to act on it; the other is effortless, guided by unconscious motives, and turns away from reality.

Directed thinking (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠bought by humanity at a heavy sacrifice; social worthlessness rises as it is impaired — except in the artist, whose whole advantage is a leaky partition between conscious and unconscious.