item: #1 of 9 id: 13136 author: Bush, David V. (David Van) title: The Silence: What It Is and How To Use It date: None words: 13213 flesch: 75 summary: I shall always think constructive thoughts, harmonious thoughts and loving thoughts. OF COURSE, YOU MAY USE OTHER THOUGHTS PROVIDED THEY ARE CONSTRUCTIVE HEALTH THOUGHTS. keywords: body; god; good; harmony; health; life; love; mind; silence; spirit; success; thought cache: 13136.txt plain text: 13136.txt item: #2 of 9 id: 13791 author: Hilton, Warren title: 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 date: None words: 13069 flesch: 61 summary: The fact that every cell in the body is a _mind_ cell shows that the body, by the very nature of its component parts, is peculiarly susceptible to mental influence and control. All these parts consist of masses of brain cells with connecting nerve fibers. keywords: achievement; action; activity; bodily; body; brain; cell; consciousness; facts; life; living; man; mind; nerve; sidenote; world cache: 13791.txt plain text: 13791.txt item: #3 of 9 id: 17334 author: Hilton, Warren title: Initiative Psychic Energy Being the Sixth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency date: None words: 10234 flesch: 69 summary: For the supply of mental energy is as inexhaustible as the reservoir of all past experience, while the supply of physical energy involved in brain and nerve activity is, like the immortal liver of Prometheus, renewed as fast as depleted. Mental energy is like water: it has a tendency to scatter. keywords: business; consciousness; day; efficiency; effort; energies; energy; ideas; man; men; power; sidenote; time; work cache: 17334.txt plain text: 17334.txt item: #4 of 9 id: 17829 author: Hilton, Warren title: The Trained Memory Being the Fourth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency date: None words: 8636 flesch: 66 summary: There are, then, _conscious_ complexes and _subconscious_ complexes, complexes of _consciousness_ and complexes of _subconsciousness_. They are presented to your consciousness with greater precision and clearness than other facts. keywords: attention; complexes; consciousness; experiences; facts; man; memory; mind; recall; sidenote; things; time cache: 17829.txt plain text: 17829.txt item: #5 of 9 id: 22489 author: Hilton, Warren title: Power of Mental Imagery Being the Fifth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency date: None words: 6836 flesch: 70 summary: Both Recognition and Imagination have to do with mental images. Mental images are representations of past mental experiences of any and every kind._ keywords: business; color; imagery; images; imagination; man; mind; past; sidenote; taste cache: 22489.txt plain text: 22489.txt item: #6 of 9 id: 26942 author: Lee, Vernon title: The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics date: None words: 34106 flesch: 47 summary: CHAPTER VI ELEMENTS OF SHAPE LET us now examine some of these relations, not in the genealogical or hierarchic order assigned to them by experimental psychology, but in so far as they constitute the elements of _shape,_ and more especially as they illustrate the general principle which I want to impress on the Reader, namely: That the perception of Shape depends primarily upon movements which _we_ make, and the measurements and comparisons which _we_ institute. Such interplay of present, past and future is requisite for every kind of _meaning,_ for every _unit of thought_; and among others, of the meaning, the _thought,_ which we contemplate under the name of _shape. keywords: activities; aesthetic; art; aspects; attention; beautiful; case; colour; contemplation; emotion; empathic; empathy; existence; eye; lines; man; mountain; movement; perception; pleasure; qualities; reader; satisfaction; sensations; shape; things; thinking; thought; word cache: 26942.txt plain text: 26942.txt item: #7 of 9 id: 28359 author: Hilton, Warren title: Applied Psychology: Making Your Own World Being the Second of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency date: None words: 6663 flesch: 65 summary: The experiment should then be repeated, with the injunction to pay no attention to the shapes but to remember as many words as possible, and write them down on such _forms_ as he may happen to recall. The subject is then told to draw with a pencil the different shapes and such _words_ as he may chance to remember. keywords: impressions; knowledge; mind; perception; process; sense; sidenote; table; world cache: 28359.txt plain text: 28359.txt item: #8 of 9 id: 33076 author: Hilton, Warren title: Applied Psychology: Driving Power of Thought Being the Third in a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency date: None words: 11417 flesch: 60 summary: A continuation of the work will surely lead to much better combinations of test experiments and to better adjusted schemes. Whatever your line of business may be, you may rest assured that an analysis of its needs will disclose numerous departments in which specific mental tests and devices may be employed with a great saving in time and money and a vastly increased efficiency and output of working energy. keywords: attention; business; causal; experiments; ideas; judgments; memory; mind; number; processes; sense; sidenote; tests; thought; time; words; work cache: 33076.txt plain text: 33076.txt item: #9 of 9 id: 36898 author: Conwell, Russell H. title: Increasing Personal Efficiency date: None words: 9851 flesch: 65 summary: Do your utmost to find a friend who is older than you, and consult him freely, and give every man your ear, for the humblest in station and those with the most meager acquirements in other matters may see some few things more clearly than other men, and may be well stored with what you most require. Men will mainly be what women make them, and there can never be _entirely free men_ keywords: day; education; help; home; life; man; men; music; oratory; power; self; time; women; work; world; years cache: 36898.txt plain text: 36898.txt