...essential is to "make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy." We should make "automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, ' ' guarding against growing into ways likely to be disadvantageous. This is especially true of details,...

...authority for this than the great psychologist, William James. He says: We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism,...

...education, is to make our nervous systems our ally instead of our enemy. . . . We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions...disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague." QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES 1. What instincts are frequently thwarted and what adjustments are often made...

...authority for this than the great psychologist William James. He says : We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of highe...

...authority for this than the great psychologist William James. He says : We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism,...

...Thorndike|| although both James§ and Deweyf placed great emphasis on the need for making automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. Thorndike has suggested certain machinery in his three laws of Readiness, Exercise and Effect. If space...

...actions as we can, and guard against growing into ways that are likely to be harmful to us, as we would guard against the plague. The more of the details of our daily lives we can hand over to the effortless direction of habit, the more our higher powers of mind will...

...the social inheritance, transmitted by education. "We must make automatic and habitual," says James, "as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous." 3 For this...

...122,) has expressed this truth most forcefully in the following language: We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can .... The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism,...

...our acquisitions, and live at ease upon the interest of the fund. For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous. The more of...