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Pelman Day THIRTY: The Secret of Concentration
Concentration is the art of thinking about a subject or a fact in its intimate associations, to the exclusion of other and unrelated subjects or facts. It is a free movement within the circle of connected ideas. Mind-wandering is straying … Continue reading
Pelman Day TWENTY-NINE: Two Worlds – The Internal and External
How Ideas Result in Objects The Woolworth Building was primarily an idea; then it existed on paper in the shape of the architect’s plans; finally, it became actual in steel and stone. An artist’s picture passes through various stages ere … Continue reading
Pelman Day TWENTY-EIGHT: Training the Subconscious
The right way to train the subconscious is to train the conscious. Just as you diet yourself carefully, avoiding dangerous concoctions as well as others that are good but which may not suit you; so, on the same principle, you … Continue reading
Pelman Day TWENTY-SEVEN: Conscious vs. Subconscious
First, as to the terms we shall use. The word subconscious means that which is below the conscious level; but the word unconscious often conveys the same idea; and there are cognate words like co-conscious, subliminal, supraliminal, and several others … Continue reading
Pelman Day TWENTY-SIX: Reading
English Literature The same method is employed in Literature. If a close acquaintance with a period of English, Literature is desired, the only true plan is to study the actual books of that period, not summaries or analyses written by … Continue reading
Pelman Day TWENTY-FIVE: The Conditions of Personality
We now come to a study of the conditions which make the expression of personality possible; and we shall find that they are of two kinds; (a) states of mind, and (b) forms of action. By a state of mind … Continue reading
Pelman Day TWENTY-FOUR: On Personality
What Personality Is The subject of Personality is confessedly difficult, partly because the several meanings of the word are often confused, but mainly because in the last analysis personality is itself inscrutable. In this lesson, however, we shall confine our … Continue reading
Pelman Day TWENTY-THREE: Connecting Words and Ideas
Catenation The word itself is derived from the Latin word catena, which means a chain, and a chain consists of a varying number of links. In catenation, the two unconnected ideas which are to be joined together are called “extremes,” … Continue reading
Pelman Day TWENTY-TWO: About Logic
It used to be imagined that if a person trained himself or herself in the arts of formal logic he or she would think, feel, and act in a manner that was unimpeachable; but experience soon evidenced a fallacy which … Continue reading
Pelman Day TWENTY-ONE: Imagination
At first sight it would appear quite wrong to speak of a methodical imagination, or even of method as being in any way characteristic of imaginative activity; but on reflection it will be evident that, although no analysis can define … Continue reading
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Pelman Day TWENTY: The Transfiguring Power
Imagination begins in infancy; grows in the schoolroom and the playground; develops rapidly in the period of youth; enlarges itself in young adulthood, attains sobriety in middle-age; and never ceases its activity so long as mind endures. It is necessary … Continue reading
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Pelman Day NINETEEN: Remembering and Association
The Recollection of Isolated Fact The subconscious action of Association may sometimes be employed effectually in the effort to recall an isolated fact, the remembrance of which cannot be awakened easily by any other means. The method is to return … Continue reading
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Pelman Day EIGHTEEN: Concentration
Think accurately. You need not only a knowledge of words but of values. You must follow the right methods as well as possess the power of expression. Stream of Thought Ask yourself this question: “Do my continually changing thoughts and … Continue reading
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Pelman Day SEVENTEEN: Self-Control
The practical effect of this teaching ought to be highly encouraging, for we have met with hundreds of cases in which men and women have wrongly accused themselves of lack of concentration. They had been trying to fix the attention … Continue reading
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Pelman Day SIXTEEN: Concentration
Once more the object before us is Power. This time it is the power to focus attention. Get the ability to control the operations of your mind. Put an end to mind-wandering. Be master of the thought process; not its … Continue reading
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Pelman Day FIFTEEN: Suggestions
The main feature about spoken suggestion it is that it is personal and therefore stronger. I may look at a shop window, admire the goods, think of buying something and pass on. But if a friend comes up whilst I … Continue reading
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Pelman Day FOURTEEN: Discipline
Drill and more drill. If a person draws up a plan of action carries it out, we call it drill; and yet it may be far removed from the severities that make up the daily routine of an ascetic or … Continue reading
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Pelman Day THIRTEEN: How to Train Will Power
Will and Effort Do you think you can control your body and mind? Which is the master, the body or the mind? If the mind, is the will the servant and not the controller? If you are skeptical about this, … Continue reading
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Pelman Sense Exercises
Some Home Experiments (You are not expected to work the experiments, mentioned in the next paragraph. They are offered as interesting side lights on the subject.) The influence which one sense exerts upon another is illustrated by the fact that … Continue reading
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Pelman Day TWELVE: Dollars and Sense
Sense-training also has a financial aspect. The more attuned your senses are, the more you will hear, see, understand and remember. We seem to imagine that we see everything that is worth seeing, and hear everything that is worth hearing, … Continue reading
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