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