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I'm a writer and a bit of a web geek and I really know a great deal about finding order in chaos.
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Living Without Clutter: Freedom from Junk
In any given year, you will spend 150 hours looking for lost household items. This is more time than most people have off from work for vacations. This is almost a full week of time, including sleeping time. Worst of … 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
When Writing Bogs Down
…my writing just keeps on plugging on and it builds no momentum and rouses no followers. Continue reading