Mental efficiency : and other hints to men and women / by Arnold Bennett.

  • Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931.
Date:
[1911?]
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Credit: Mental efficiency : and other hints to men and women / by Arnold Bennett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    incentive to do a little each day beyond the ordinary towards the real culture of the mind, is the beginning of the cure of mental inefficiency.” This is very in- genious and good. Further : “ The day comes when the mental habit has become a part of our life, and we value mental work for the work’s sake.” But I am not sure about that. For myself, I have never valued work for its own sake, and I never shall. And I only value such mental work for the more full and more intense consciousness of being alive which it gives me. Miss H. D.’s remedies are vague. As to lack of will-power, “ the first step is to realize your weakness ; the next step is to have ordinary shame that you are defective.” I doubt, I gravely doubt, if these steps would lead to anything definite. Nor is this very helpful : “ I would advise reading, observing, writing. I would advise the use of every sense and every faculty by which we at last learn the sacredness of life.” This is