There are people who amuse themselves with thinking, and for them productive thinking is only boring. For people-creators, productive thinking, where the flow of thoughts, images and sensations is purposeful, where there is an understanding of what is happening, the birth of new life meanings and the solution of life tasks — such thinking is of the highest value.
The orangutan cannot reach the fish in the river, but there is a rather long stick next to it. When an orangutan understands the connection between a stick and a fish that needs to be reached, this is productive thinking.
Productive thinking — finding a connection between objects and phenomena, solving a life problem. This is the ability to turn on the head in order to look for a solution to certain problems, to draw conclusions. This is a careful look at the situation, which solves a particular problem. Synonym: think. Productive thinking means thinking about what you need, when you need it, and how you need it. And this means:
Train yourself to think concretely.
“Working on yourself”, “Improving yourself”, “Eradicating your shortcomings” are beautiful words, but usually there is nothing behind them. And the one who uses such words, most often marks time in one place.
«Get up, Count! Great things are waiting for you!”, “The morning starts with exercises”, “I got up — I made the bed”, “I left the house — I straightened my shoulders” — things are simple and concrete. And the benefits of such thoughts, practical orders to oneself, are great.
Avoid negativity and emptiness in your thoughts. Stop burdening yourself with thoughts that will get you nowhere.
Do not start a conversation about this, do not go to those people where these conversations will arise, do not read what will push you to these thoughts. Keep yourself occupied with something simple and useful. For example, for you in the near future it is: … What?
Have a plan of your affairs and think about what you need to think about now.
If you have a sheet in front of your eyes where you write down the affairs of the upcoming day, everything becomes easier — this business sheet will organize you. If you have good friends, your friends will organize your thinking. Next to them, you always start to think about the good. About necessary.
Think in such a way that you will achieve results that will please you and will be useful to you and those around you.
Like this? (For example)
Suppose you are thinking about your job.
Are you planning to change something there? Are you really planning to change something there? If yes, then think further, and be sure. If not, then stop thinking and get down to business.
Do you have things to do?
Further. Thinking about your work, you thought and came to the conclusion that you are a low-level specialist and you will hardly be able to do anything about it in the near future.
Unfortunately. And upset, of course.
Curious: and why then you thought about it like that? Has it raised your self-confidence, will it help you do the things that lie ahead of you? Think about how you can think differently about yourself so that you believe in yourself and teach yourself at least a small thing that will be useful to you in your work.
Learn to type with ten fingers? Stop making excuses? Something else?
Record this helpful finding in your diary. And you can think even more and make already serious decisions. Life is yours, one, why not? So, «I’m contemplating such a big decision…»
Unproductive thinking
If we single out productive thinking, it means that there is another type of thinking: unproductive. And what is it, what is it? It seems that this is a whole world of the most diverse options for thinking: for example, this is internal chatter — relatively coherent, sometimes even logical, but inexpedient thinking that fills the emptiness of the soul, entertaining and creating the illusion that life is filled with something. These are empty dreams and options for defensive-aggressive thinking, ready to destroy any logic in order to preserve inner comfort.