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Applied Psychology
MAKING
YOUR OWN WORLD
_Being the Second of a Series of
Twelve Volumes on the Applications
of Psychology to the Problems of
Personal and Business
Efficiency_
BY
WARREN HILTON, A.B., L.L.B.
FOUNDER OF THE SOCIETY OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
ISSUED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF
THE LITERARY DIGEST
FOR
The Society of Applied Psychology
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1920
COPYRIGHT 1914
BY THE APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO
CONTENTS
Chapter Page
I. THE TWO FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES OF MIND
MIND AS A MEANS TO ATTAINMENT 3
THREE POSTULATES FOR THIS COURSE 4
EXPERIENCE AND ABSTRACTIONS 5
PRIMARY MENTAL OPERATIONS 6
II. SENSATIONS AND OUR PERCEPTION OF THEM
MIND'S SOURCE OF SUPPLIES 9
DOES MATTER EXIST? 10
FIRST-HAND KNOWLEDGE 11
SECOND-HAND KNOWLEDGE 12
ETHERIC VIBRATIONS AS CAUSING SENSATIONS 13
THE ROAD TO PERCEPTION 14
THE PLACE WHERE SENSATION OCCURS 15
LABORATORY PROOF OF SENSE-PERCEPTIVE PROCESS 16
REACTION-TIME 17
THE HUMAN TELEPHONE 18
THE LIVING TELEGRAPH 19
THE SIX STEPS TO REACTION 20
UNOPENED MENTAL MAIL 21
SELECTIVE PROCESS THAT DETERMINES CONDUCT 22
IN TUNE WITH LIFE-INTEREST 23
PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF PERCEPTION PROCESS 24
III. SENSORY ILLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR THEIR USE
UNRELIABILITY OF SENSE-ORGANS 27
BEING AND SEEMING 29
USE OF ILLUSIONS IN BUSINESS 31
MAKING AN ARTICLE LOOK BIG 32
TESTING THE CONFIDENTIAL MAN 33
TESTS FOR CREDULITY 34
WHAT COLORS LOOK NEAREST 35
TESTING THE RANGE OF ATTENTION 36
A GUIDE TO OCCUPATIONAL SELECTION 37
TEST FOR ATTENTION TO DETAILS 38
OTHER BUSINESS APPLICATIONS 39
IV. INWARDNESS OF ENVIRONMENT
FACTORS OF SUCCESS OR FAILURE 43
SHOULD SEEING BE BELIEVING? 44
HEARING THE LIGHTNING 46
IMPORTANCE OF THE MENTAL MAKE-UP 47
UNREALITY OF "THE REAL" 48
"THINGS" AND THEIR MENTAL DUPLICATES 49
EFFECT OF CLOSING ONE'S EYES 50
IF MATTER WERE ANNIHILATED 51
IF MIND WERE ANNIHILATED 52
AS MANY WORLDS AS MINDS 53
V. ESSENTIAL LAW OF PRACTICAL SELF-MASTERY
OPTION AND OPPORTUNITY 57
PRE-ARRANGING YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS 58
HOW TO DEFINITELY SELECT ITS ELEMENTS 59
AN INFALLIBLE RECIPE FOR SELF-POSSESSION 60
USING "UNSEEN EAR PROTECTORS" 61
HOW TO AVOID WORRY, MELANCHOLY 62
PUTTING CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER FOOT 63
RUNNING YOUR MENTAL FACTORY 64
ACQUIRING MENTAL BALANCE 65
DISSIPATING MENTAL SPECTERS 66
HOW TO CONTROL YOUR DESTINY 67
CHAPTER I
THE TWO FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES OF MIND
[Sidenote: _Mind as a Means to Achievement_]
In the preceding book, "Psychology and Achievement," we established
the truth of two propositions:
I. _All human achievement comes about through bodily activity._
II. _All bodily activity is caused, controlled and directed by the
mind._
To these two fundamental propositions we now append a third, which
needs no proof, but follows as a natural and logical conclusion from
the other two:
III. _The Mind is the instrument you must employ for the
accomplishment of any purpose._
[Sidenote: _Three Postulates for this Course_]
With these three fundamental propositions as postulates, it will be
the end and aim of this Course of Reading to develop plain, simple
and specific methods and directions for the most efficient use of
the mind in the attainment of practical ends.
_To comprehend these mental methods and to make use of them in
business affairs you must thoroughly understand the two fundamental
processes of the mind._
These two fundamental processes are the Sense-Perceptive Process and
the Judicial Process.
The Sense-Perceptive Process is the process by which knowledge is
acquired through the senses. Knowledge is the result of experience
and all human experience is made up of sense-perceptions.
[Sidenote: _Experience and Abstractions_]
The Judicial Process is the reasoning and reflective process. It is
the purely "intellectual" type of mental operation. It deals wholly
in abstractions. Abstractions are constructed out of past experiences.
Consequently, the Sense-Perceptive Process furnishes the raw
material, sense-perceptions or experience, for the machinery of
the Judicial Process to work with.
[Sidenote: _Primary Mental Operations_]
In this book we shall give you a clear idea of the Sense-Perceptive
Process and show you some of the ways in which an understanding of
this process will be useful to you in everyday affairs. The
succeeding book will explain the Judicial Process.