Applied Psychology E-Book

Warren Hilton

• Herausgeber: Interactive Media
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

"Applied Psychology: Making Your Own World" by Warren Hilton delves into practical techniques for harnessing the power of the mind to achieve success and happiness. It explores methods for self-improvement, goal setting, and mastering one's thoughts, empowering readers to shape their destinies through psychological principles.

Leseprobe

Warren Hilton

Warren Hilton

Applied Psychology: Making Your Own World

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Contents

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER I

THE TWO FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES OF MIND

Mind as a Means to Achievement

In the preceding book, “Psychology and Achievement,” we established the truth of two propositions:

All human achievement comes about through bodily activity.

All bodily activity is caused, controlled and directed by the mind.

To these two fundamental propositions we now append a third, which needs no proof, but follows as a natural and logical conclusion from the other two:

The Mind is the instrument you must employ for the accomplishment of any purpose.

Three Postulates for this Course

With these three fundamental propositions as postulates, it will be the end and aim of this Course of Reading to develop plain, simple and specific methods and directions for the most efficient use of the mind in the attainment of practical ends.

To comprehend these mental methods and to make use of them in business affairs you must thoroughly understand the two fundamental processes of the mind.

These two fundamental processes are the Sense-Perceptive Process and the Judicial Process.

The Sense-Perceptive Process is the process by which knowledge is acquired through the senses. Knowledge is the result of experience and all human experience is made up of sense-perceptions.

Experience and Abstractions

The Judicial Process is the reasoning and reflective process. It is the purely “intellectual” type of mental operation. It deals wholly in abstractions. Abstractions are constructed out of past experiences.

Consequently, the Sense-Perceptive Process furnishes the raw material, sense-perceptions