How to Use Your Mind: A Psychology of Study; Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised StudyJ.B. Lippincott, 1910 - 215 páginas |
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... Remember , you do not need to accept unqualiñedly everything you read . A worthy ideal for every student to follow is expressed in the motto carved on the wall of the great reading - room of the Harper Memorial Library at The University ...
... Remember , you do not need to accept unqualiñedly everything you read . A worthy ideal for every student to follow is expressed in the motto carved on the wall of the great reading - room of the Harper Memorial Library at The University ...
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... Remember , you are going to accept hini as authority , and you should know his status . You may be told this on the title - page , or you may have to consult Who's Who , or the bio- graphical dictionary . 3. Glance over the preface ...
... Remember , you are going to accept hini as authority , and you should know his status . You may be told this on the title - page , or you may have to consult Who's Who , or the bio- graphical dictionary . 3. Glance over the preface ...
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... Remember , you may be using the note- book twenty years hence , therefore make it durable . Second , write plainly . This injunction ought to be superfluous , for common sense tells us that writing which is illegible cannot be read even ...
... Remember , you may be using the note- book twenty years hence , therefore make it durable . Second , write plainly . This injunction ought to be superfluous , for common sense tells us that writing which is illegible cannot be read even ...
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... Remember , note- taking is one of the habits you are to form in college . See that the habit is started rightly . Adopt a good plan at the start and adhere to it . You may be encouraged , too , with the thought that facility in note ...
... Remember , note- taking is one of the habits you are to form in college . See that the habit is started rightly . Adopt a good plan at the start and adhere to it . You may be encouraged , too , with the thought that facility in note ...
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... Remember , as the first pathway is cut , subsequent nervous cur- rents will be directed . Consequently if you make a wrong pathway , you will have trouble undoing it . Another maxim which will obviously prevent undesirable pathways is ...
... Remember , as the first pathway is cut , subsequent nervous cur- rents will be directed . Consequently if you make a wrong pathway , you will have trouble undoing it . Another maxim which will obviously prevent undesirable pathways is ...
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Página 68 - The more of 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.
Página 64 - A character," as JS Mill says, "is a completely fashioned will"; and a will, in the sense in which he means it, is an aggregate of tendencies to act in a firm and prompt and...
Página 70 - Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, hi whatever pursuit he may have singled out.
Página 69 - I won't count this time!' Well! he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve-cells and fibres the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes.
Página 67 - There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
Página 64 - Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain. It is not in the moment of their forming, but in the moment of their producing motor effects, that resolves and aspirations communicate the new " set
Página 70 - Silently, between all the details of his business, the power of judging in all that class of matter will have built itself up within him as a possession that will never pass away.
Página 141 - Not that which entereth into the mouth defileth the man ; but that which proceedeth out of the mouth, this defileth the man.
Página 69 - Well! he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nervecells and fibres the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so many separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts...
Página 69 - The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone.