picking a purpose and committing. It bends reality. For example money: what should you do? How invest? How much earn? With a purpose it becomes coherent as a means to the purpose end, not some abstract thing you should want more of
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That helps explain how and why “as a man thinketh . . .” works. It’s not necessarily some mystical universal force (though who knows—it may be). Rather, it becomes a self-installed sorting and filtering function. “This appears to be consistent with the focus, so keep it.” “That is obviously orthogonal to the aim, so drop it.”
And magically you trend toward the focus.
It’s a coherence tool: a method to create a coherent narrative, to create meaning.
Which is all well and good until you see the external manifestations (things around you made of atoms) have rearranged themselves according to your focus. Then it dawns on you that focus isn’t a magic trick. It’s a force of nature.