Know Your Own Mind

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Excerpt from Know Your Own Mind: A Little Book of Practical Psychology Mr. H. G. Wells, in Mankind in the Making, says that only thoughts which can be expressed on the meanest commonplace will ever, under present conditions, reach the minds of the majority of the English-speaking peoples. If this be so, it is a bad look-out for the popularity of Psychology. Personally, I think Mr Wells too pessimistic, and in the following pages I have tried to interest the man in the street - not the man at the street-corner - in the study of a subject vital to his welfare. I have, moreover, been encouraged in my project by the words of that eminent authority, William James, who tells us that "the elements of the mental machine can be clearly apprehended, and their workings easily grasped." As these elements and general workings are just the parts of psychology most directly applicable to everyday life, and as this is intended to be a practical manual, it follows that the matter is confined mainly to first principles and their practical application. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.