Psychology and Achievement

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Psychology and Achievement, by Warren Hilton

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Title: Psychology and Achievement
Author: Warren Hilton
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Language: English
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Applied Psychology
PSYCHOLOGY AND ACHIEVEMENT
Being the First of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency
BY
WARREN HILTON, A.B., L.L.B. FOUNDER OF THE SOCIETY OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
ISSUED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE LITERARY DIGEST
FOR
The Society of Applied Psychology NEW YORK AND LONDON 1919
1914
BY THE APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO

PREFATORY NOTE
Lest in the text of these volumes credit may not always have been given where credit is due, grateful acknowledgment is here made to Professor Hugo Münsterberg, Professor Walter Dill Scott, Dr. James H. Hyslop, Dr. Ernst Haeckel, Dr. Frank Channing Haddock, Mr. Frederick W. Taylor, Professor Morton Prince, Professor F.H. Gerrish, Mr. Waldo Pondray Warren, Dr. J.D. Quackenbos, Professor C.A. Strong, Professor Paul Dubois, Professor Joseph Jastrow, Professor Pierre Janet, Dr. Bernard Hart and Professor G.M. Whipple, of the indebtedness to them incurred in the preparation of this work.

CONTENTS
Chapter I.
ATTAINMENT OF MIND CONTROL THE MAN OF TOMORROW THE DOLLARS AND CENTS OF MENTAL WASTE THE MEANS TO NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT A PROCESS FOR "MAKING GOOD" INADEQUACY OF BODY TRAINING INADEQUACY OF BUSINESS SPECIALIZATION FUTILITY OF ADVICE IN BUSINESS THE WHY AND THE HOW FUNDAMENTAL TRAINING FOR EFFICIENCY THE VIRUS OF FAILURE PRACTICAL FORMULAS FOR EVERY DAY YOUR UNDISCOVERED RESOURCES MAN'S MIND MACHINE ABJURING MYSTICISMS PSYCHOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY AND RELATIONSHIPS ABODE AND INSTRUMENT OF MIND MANNER OF HANDLING MENTAL PROCESSES FUNDAMENTAL LAWS AND PRACTICAL METHODS SPECIAL BUSINESS TOPICS A STEP BEYOND COLLEGIATE PSYCHOLOGY THE ETERNAL LAWS OF INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT HOW TO MASTER OUR METHODS
II. TWO LAWS OF SUCCESS-ACHIEVEMENT THE ONE-MAN BUSINESS CORPORATION BUSINESS AND BODILY ACTIVITY THE ENSLAVED BRAIN FIRST STEP TOWARD SELF-REALIZATION
III. RELATION OF MIND ACTIVITY TO BODILY ACTIVITY SPECULATION AND PRACTICAL SCIENCE PHILOSOPHIC RIDDLES AND PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS WHAT WE WANT TO KNOW SPIRITUALIST, MATERIALIST AND SCIENTIST SCIENCE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT CAUSES AND "FIRST" CAUSES A COMMON PLATFORM FOR ALL THOUGHTS TREATED AS CAUSES SCIENTIFIC METHOD WITH PRACTICAL PROBLEMS USES OF SCIENTIFIC LAWS
IV. INTROSPECTIVE EVIDENCE OF MENTAL MASTERY DOING THE THING YOU WANT TO DO SOURCE OF POWER OF WILL IMPELLENT ENERGY OF THOUGHT BODILY EFFECTS OF MENTAL STATES ILLUSTRATIVE EXPERIMENTS SCOPE OF MIND POWER BODILY EFFECTS OF EMOTION BODILY EFFECTS OF PERCEPTION EXPERIMENTS OF PAVLOV TASTE AND DIGESTION BODILY EFFECTS OF SENSATIONS THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF EXPRESSION
V. PHYSIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF MENTAL MASTERY INTROSPECTIVE KNOWLEDGE DISSECTION AND THE GOVERNING CONSCIOUSNESS SUBORDINATE MENTAL UNITS WHAT THE MICROSCOPE SHOWS THE LITTLE UNIVERSE BEYOND THE UNIT OF LIFE CHARACTERISTICS OF LIVING CELLS THE BRAIN OF THE CELL MIND LIFE OF ONE CELL THE WILL OF THE CELL THE CELL AND ORGANIC EVOLUTION EVOLUTIONARY DIFFERENTIATIONS PLURALITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL COMBINED CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE MILLIONS EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN ORGANISM THE CROWD-MAN FUNCTIONS OF DIFFERENT HUMAN CELLS CELL LIFE AFTER DEATH EXPERIMENTS OF DR. ALEXIS CARRELL MAN-FEDERATION OF INTELLIGENCES CREATIVE POWER OF THE CELL LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR PRACTICAL DOING THREE NEW PROPOSITIONS AN INSTRUMENT FOR MENTAL DOMINANCE GATEWAYS OF EXPERIENCE COURIERS OF ACTION NERVE SYSTEMS ORGANS OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND SUBCONSCIOUSNESS LOOKING INSIDE THE SKULL DRUNKENNESS AND BRAIN EFFICIENCY SECONDARY BRAINS DEPENDENCE OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS UNCONSCIOUSNESS AND SUBCONSCIOUSNESS SYNTHESIS OF THE MAN-MACHINE SUBSERVIENCY OF THE BODY
VI. THE SUPREMACY OF CONSCIOUSNESS STRIKING OFF THE MENTAL SHACKLES THE AWAKENING OF ENLIGHTENMENT THE VITAL PURPOSE YOUR RESERVOIR OF LATENT POWER

ATTAINMENT OF MIND CONTROL
CHAPTER I
ATTAINMENT OF MIND CONTROL
[Sidenote: The Man of Tomorrow]
The men of the nineteenth century have harnessed the forces of the outer world. The age is now at hand that shall harness the energies of mind, new-found in the psychological laboratory, and shall put them at the service of humanity.
Are you fully equipped to take a valiant part in the work of the coming years?
[Sidenote: The Dollars and Cents of Mental Waste]
The greatest of all eras is at hand! Are you increasing your fitness to appreciate it and take part in it, or are you merely passing your time away?
Take careful note for a week of the incidents of your daily life--your methods of work, habits of thought, modes of recreation. You will discover an appalling waste in your present random methods of operation.
How many foot-pounds of energy do you suppose you annually dump into the scrap-heap of wasted effort? What does this mean to you in dollars and cents? In conscious usefulness? In peace and happiness?
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