...as possible, as many useful actions as we can'. It is a miserable human being who deliberates over 'the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every...to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work'.10 Half such a person's life is wasted over deciding, or regretting, such matters. For James...

...disadvantageous to us. ... The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers...than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. . . . Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought...

...stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. Aneurm Bcvan (1897-1960) British Labour politician There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. William James (1842-1910) American psychologist, philosopher He who hesitates is sometimes saved. James...

...from linguistic theory The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers...of mind will be set free for their own proper work. — William James Let's call the formalization of Barriers presented in Part II FB. This theory, which...

...and when they need us. Your child's happiness does not depend on being with you every waking hour. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. — William James Parenting involves a high degree of risk. Every time you make a decision there is...

...description of a doubt-infested individual in Principles is not an evocation of James's own experiences?: "There is no more miserable human being than one in...indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar . . . and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation."78 Principles...

...number "of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automation. the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work" tJames 1950. 1:122). Thus the dialectic between habit and consciousness. between knowing how and knowing...

...guard against the plague. The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers...than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. . . . Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought...

...recommends when he says, "The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work."6 On the contrary, such automatism blunts the mind's preparedness for the conscious life. With...

...776), published in The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 1 , ed. Julian P. Boyd (1950). Opening lines. 5 There is no more miserable human being than one in...going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit Indifference 1 Lukewarmness I account a sin, As great in love as in religion. ABRAHAM COWLEY, (1618-1667)...