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Title: Applied Psychology: Driving Power
of Thought
Being the Third in a Series of Twelve
Volumes on the
Applications of Psychology to the Problems
of Personal and
Business Efficiency
Author: Warren Hilton
Release Date: July 4, 2010 [EBook #33076]
Language: English
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VITALIZING
INFLUENCE OF
CERTAIN IDEAS
3

WORK OF PRINCE,
GERRISH, SIDIS,
JANET, BINET
4

THE TWO TYPES
OF THOUGHT
5
II.
CAUSAL
JUDGMENTSELEMENTARY
CONCLUSIONS
9

FIRST EFFORT OF
THE MIND
10

DISTORTED EYE
PICTURES

OF THE MIND
22
IV.
THE FOUR PRIME
LAWS OF
ASSOCIATIONTHE SEEMING
CHAOS OF MIND
27

PREDICTING
YOUR NEXT IDEA
28

THE BONDS OF
29
INTELLECT

BRANDS AND
TAGS
32

HOW
EXPERIENCE IS
SYSTEMATIZED
33

HOW LANGUAGE

THE LIFE OF
EFFORT
43

THE MOTIVE
POWER OF
PROGRESS
44

THE VALUE OF
AN IDEA
45

THE HARD WORK
REQUIRED TO
FAIL
46
CREATIVE POWER
OF THOUGHT 47

CONSCIOUS AND
UNCONSCIOUS
TRAINING
48

TWO WAYS OF
ATTACKING
BUSINESS
PROBLEMS
49

59

TESTS FOR
DIFFERENT
MENTAL TRAITS
60

TEST OF
UNCONTROLLED
ASSOCIATIONS
61

TEST FOR QUICK
THINKING
62

MEASURING
SPEED OF
63
THOUGHT

RANGE OF
MENTAL TESTS
64

TESTS FOR ARMY
AND NAVY
65

TESTS FOR

EXACTITUDE
76

TEST FOR
RAPIDITY OF
MOVEMENT
77

TEST FOR
ACCURACY OF
MOVEMENT
78

RESULTS OF
EXPERIMENTS
79

THEORY AND
PRACTICE
85

HOW TO
IDENTIFY THE
UNFIT
87

MEANS TO
GREAT BUSINESS
ECONOMIES
88

96

A TEST FOR ROTE
MEMORY
97

A TEST FOR
RANGE OF
VOCABULARY
100

CRIME-
DETECTION BY
PSYCHOLOGICAL
TESTS
105

THE FACTORY
OPERATIVE'S
ATTENTION
POWER
106

KINDS OF
TESTING
APPARATUS
108

ANALYSIS OF
DIFFERENT

The Work of Prince, Gerrish, Sidis, Janet,
Binet
Certain eminent pioneers in therapeutic
psychology, such men as Prince, Gerrish,
Sidis, Janet, Binet and other physician-
scientists, have lately made practical use
of the vitalizing influence of certain
classes of ideas in the healing of disease.
We shall go farther than these men have
gone and show you that the impellent
energy of ideas is the means to all
practical achievement and to all practical
success.
Preceding books in this Course have
taught that—
I . All human achievement comes about
through some form of bodily activity.
I I . All bodily activity is caused,
controlled and directed by the mind.
III. The mind is the instrument you must
employ for the accomplishment of any
purpose.
The Two Types of Thought
You have learned that the fundamental
processes of the mind are the Sense-
Perceptive Process and the Judicial
Process.
So far you have considered only the
former—that is to say, sense-impressions
and our perception of them. You have