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I decided that I was the only one that could be trusted with the truth, because only I could discern whether I was lying to myself or not.
By learning what I did know or thought I knew, I learned what I did not. New information was important. I was producing a lot of new ideas. When at home I could write it down. But I needed a system for the memorization of new ideas and information when out and about. I didn't want to carry a notebook. That would tend to alter my experience of reality, like carrying a camera. One would tend to select the reality one would notice corresponding to photos one would want to take.
I created concept-categories like law, religion, emotion, morality, history, or literature. The category became the larger thinking, as what was known, what was decided concerning the subject, and it contained the larger ramifications, reasoning and speculations. New information would be associated and compared instantaneously with already existing material, thus making the memorization thereof much easier.
Categorization would prove to be the secret of clarity of mind like de-fragging a computer. Everything had its place where it could easily be found, analyzed, compared, evaluated, such that the confused mind ceased to exist. I couldn't stand to get drunk anymore, because I could not stand that confused state. I realized that before I taught myself how to think, there was not much difference between the ordinary state of mind and the drunk state; each equally confused.
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