Psychology and Achievement

Psychology and Achievement, by
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Title: Psychology and Achievement
Author: Warren Hilton
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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