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William James, the father of modern psychology, said it best nearly a century and a half ago, and his wisdom has been sadly forgotten. Life is in the transitions.
Bruce Feiler • Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
Agassiz put him on the ship and took him up the Amazon and literally threw him off the boat. And in that moment was born every aspect of William James’s philosophy, which is that you cannot think your way to right action, you have to act your way to right thinking. And from that came the James idea of pragmatism, that the good is what works, and th
... See moreDavid Milch • Life's Work: A Memoir
We’re talking about what psychologists today would describe as the “adaptive unconscious.” Timothy Wilson, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, has described this in his important book Strangers to Ourselves (a very Augustinian title!). Over the past twenty years psychology has come to appreciate the overwhelming influence of “nonconscious
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
“Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul’s resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little fi
... See moreClassics in the History of Psychology -- James (1890) Chapter 10
psychclassics.yorku.caWilliam James once wrote, “My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.”