Applied Psychology ...: Initiative psychic energyIssued under the auspices of the Literary Digest for the Society of Applied Psychology, 1920 |
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accomplish accu achieve action ambition appalling astigmatic bodily centrate Concentrate your mental conflicting ideas Conserving Energy Five Determining Your Norm Energy Five Rules ENERGY OF SUCCESS Excitement fact forever doing things fritter habit hidden Hot Boxes hurry ically idea in consciousness impulses to muscular increase INITIATIVE ENERGY Inner Whirlwinds kinetic energy latent energy lives losing power mand Marathon master ment Mental Capital MENTAL EFFICIENCY mental effort mental energies mental forces Mental Friction mental picture mental power MENTAL SECOND WIND mortification muscular action muscular activity ness new-found night occasion to reveal pent-up mental persistently in mind potential energy previously wasted psychology pulses Pygmies recall to consciousness release reserve or potential reserve power respond rest result right thoughts persistently Rules for Conserving scientific management SECRET OF MENTAL sensory experiences sleep strain succeed task tend thought complexes tion Top Pace WASTES THAT DRAIN
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Page 48 - A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.
Page 14 - ... the assault I had an unlucky fall on some bad ground, and it was an open question for a day or two whether I hadn't broken my arm at the elbow. Fortunately it turned out to be only a severe sprain, but I am still conscious of the wrench it gave me. To crown the whole pleasant catalogue, I was worn to a shadow by a constant diarrhoea, and consumed as much opium as would have done credit to my father-in-law (Thomas De Quincey) . However, thank God, I have a good share of Tapleyism in me and come...
Page 12 - ... and livid spots, so that I was marvellously unlovely to look upon. A smart knock on the ankle-joint from the splinter of a shell that burst in my face, in itself a mere bagatelle of a wound, had been of necessity neglected under the pressing and incessant calls upon me, and had grown worse and...
Page 15 - Tlie excitement of the- work was so great that no lesser one seemed to have any chance against it, and I certainly never found my intellect clearer or my nerves stronger in my life. It was only my wretched body that was weak, and the moment the real work was done by our becoming complete masters of Delhi, I broke down without delay and discovered that if I wished to live I must continue no longer the system that had kept me up until the crisis was passed.
Page 13 - A smart knock on the ankle-joint from the splinter of a shell that burst in my face, in itself a mere bagatelle of a wound, had been of necessity neglected under the pressing and incessant calls upon me, and had grown worse and worse till the whole foot below the ankle became a black mass and seemed to threaten mortification. I insisted however on being allowed to use it till the...
Page 71 - I suspect that neither the nature nor the amount of our work is accountable for the frequency and severity of our breakdowns, but that their cause lies rather in those absurd feelings of hurry and having no time, in that breathlessness and tension, that anxiety of feature and that solicitude for results, that lack of inner harmony and ease, in short, by which with us the work is so apt to be accompanied, and from which a European who should do the same work would nine times out of ten be free.
Page 67 - ... profitable. In such a study we are amazed at the records of the deeds of the men whom the world calls great. The results of the labors of Hercules seem to be approximated according to many of these truthful accounts. In studying the lives of contemporary business men two facts stand out prominently. The first is that their labors have brought about results that to most of us would have seemed impossible. Such men appear as giants, in comparison with whom ordinary men sink to the size of pygmies....
Page 58 - A cool brain is the reverse of a hot box. It carries the business of the day along with a steady drive, and is invariably the mark of the big man. The man who dispatches his work quietly, promptly and efficiently, with no trace of fuss and flurry, is a big man. It is not the hurrying, clattering and chattering individual who turns off the most work. He may imagine he is getting over a lot of track, but he wastes far more than the necessary amount of steam in doing it. The fable of the hare and the...
Page 69 - When Mr. Lyons was asked to explain how he had been able to accomplish so much without hustling, he replied : " By organizing myself to run smoothly as well as my business ; by schooling myself to keep cool, and to do what I have to do without expending more nervous energy on the task than is necessary ; by avoiding all needless friction. In consequence, when I finish my day's work, I feel nearly as fresh as when I started.
Page 13 - ... the place was taken, mortification or no ; and though the pain was sometimes horrible, I carried my point and kept up to the last. On the day after the assault I had an unlucky fall on some bad ground, and it was an open question for a day or two whether I hadn't broken my left arm at the elbow. Fortunately it turned out to be only a severe sprain ; but I am still conscious of the wrench it gave me. And, to crown the whole pleasant catalogue, I was worn to a shadow by a constant diarrhoea, and...