When you’ve answered that question, ask yourself another question of the answer you just gave yourself in an attempt to narrow it down even more. This is all about individuality and inner conflicts. No one needs to know the answers except you. At first, this probably won’t come natural to you and it will take effort on your part at first, you know, “volitional consciousness.” When the alarm goes off at 10 am, stop what you are doing and ask yourself a question such as, Why am I doing this and then answer the question honestly. Say for instance, if you have a watch with a timer on it, set it for 10 am. While you are out and about in your daily life right now discover what you are feeling and why and what your actions are and why or question your pain that you are experiencing and figure out if it is justifiable and if it is UNEARNED pain. “Ask yourself how many INDEPENDENT CONCLUSIONS you have reached in the course of your life and how much of your time was spent on performing the actions you LEARNED from others……” By this method, you will soon discover what, in logic, should have been the popular wisdom: that the more you learn, if you LEARN IT PROPERLY, the more CLEAR you become and the more you know." Every new item you integrate into the fabric of your knowledge will mean that much more fact on your side, that much more weight to YOUR CONCLUSIONS, that much more conviction to the total of your cognition. "If you avail yourself of the power of a rational epistemology, you do not have to fear new data or new ideas. After a while, he will experience focus as an unnatural strain, his thought processes will become relatively tortured and unproductive, and he will be tempted more than ever to escape into a state of passive drift." This will make the CHOICE to focus harder. "On the other hand, if an individual ACCEPTS an anti-reason philosophy, and if he characteristically remains out of focus, he will increasingly feel blind, UNCERTAIN and anxious. After he practices the policy for a time, FOCUSSING will come to seem NATURAL, his thought processes will gain in speed and efficiency, HE WILL ENJOY USING HIS MIND, and he will experience little temptation to drop the mental reins." This will make it easier for him to be in FOCUS. If an individual accepts a philosophy of reason, and if he characteristically CHOOSES to be in FOCUS, he will gradually GAIN knowledge, confidence, and a sense of intellectual control. "This is not to deny that a person's ideas can have effects, positive or negative, on his mental state. This one is from Ayn Rand Library Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
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For those of you who do read it, I truly hope it makes more sense on how to start it.īut first I wanted you to read this excerpt and to keep it in mind when reading the rest of this post. Some of these excerpts are directed towards certain individuals that I’ve talked with privately. I am hoping I can share an idea that is more clarifying of how to start it for those of you that are interested. I decided to put up a separate post for these examples instead of adding them to the first post. Even though it is much longer, it may be well worth the read for you. This is much longer than the first post but hopefully will shed more light on what I mean by introspection/extrospection in the present or what my friend calls real time analyzing.