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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