"How to Cultivate Emotional Poise in a Strenuous Age."
What is the practical value of cultivating such a mental attitude?
Speaking as a neurologist, it is this: In my belief, nervous prostration would be rare if we were so constituted that we could leave out needless fear and fret, avoid swearing or even feeling like swearing, if we could argue without acrimony, could stifle our aversions, could resist the temptation to play the martyr, and could listen to criticism and ridicule without getting " hot under the collar."
And, further, I believe that if such a millennium could be attained, the actual amount of effective work in the world would be easily doubled.
Not that people wouldn't get tired, but it would be a healthy tired, the kind a normal child has after a long day's play; not the kind of tired that puts you where you can't sleep if a clock ticks, but the kind that makes you relax every muscle in your body and sleep until the breakfast bell rings, or if you don't sleep, makes you lie still in one position and think what a good time you are having, instead of churning the bedclothes and fussing about that eight hours' sleep on which you had set your mind…….
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