Chapter 4Get in Your Right Mind
A man should learn to detect and foster that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within far more than the lustre of the whole firmament without. Yet he dismisses without notice his peculiar thought because it is peculiar.
In this chapter, we’ll look at a whole bunch of techniques to help bring more mental processing power online for you. Some may be familiar to you, and others will definitely be more exotic; don’t shy away from the “odd” ones. If you are repelled and don’t want to try something, that’s probably exactly what you should try first.
Emerson points out in the opening epigraph that we tend to dismiss unusual or uncomfortable thoughts—and that’s a bad thing. You ...
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