..."He's just like a blob of mercury." Despite the fact that everyone loved him, James himself wrote, "There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision."12 Indeed, James suffered from a series of emotional problems, such as anxiety attacks...

...the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work. William James, Principles of Psychology (1890) In one of our PET studies at Iowa, we examined how the...

...(1705-1793) The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. —Tacitus (55? -130?) There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. —William James (1842-1910) The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions....

...the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work" (134). But on the other hand, because the "higher powers of the mind" are themselves subject to habituation,...

...the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work."41 The physicist Albert Einstein, whose name has become a kind of synonym for genius, was known...

...is thirty. Before that, they may be in flux. And this setting of habit is as it should be, because "there is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision." In Noel Coward's Brief Encounter (1945), both the "ordinary" housewife, played by Celia Johnson, and...

...Thomas Huxley, 1825-1895 ~ in Leonard Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, Vol 2, 1900 There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. ~ William James, 1842-1910 ~ Principles of Psychology, 1890 If you take too long in deciding what to...

...good rules is always a dangerous business. It easily becomes a bad habit. William James observed that "There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision."10 Indeed, to be without good habits is not only to be miserable but to lack practical...

...the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work" ( 1 1-1 2). In what is evidently a Taylorist fantasy of efficiency displaced from the factory to the...

...you'll be doing it a whole lot better! Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. William James There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. William James Introduction Your progress chart In order to know how far you've progressed when you...