72
TEST FOR GENERAL INTELLIGENCE 74
TEST FOR EXACTITUDE 76
TEST FOR RAPIDITY OF MOVEMENT 77
TEST FOR ACCURACY OF MOVEMENT 78
RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS 79
THEORY AND PRACTICE 85
HOW TO IDENTIFY THE UNFIT 87
MEANS TO GREAT BUSINESS ECONOMIES 88
ROUND PEGS IN SQUARE HOLES 89
THE DANGER IN TWO-FIFTHS OF A SECOND 90
PICKING A PRIVATE SECRETARY 91
FINDING OUT THE CLOSE-MOUTHED 92
A TEST FOR SUGGESTIBILITY 93
SELECTING A STENOGRAPHER 95
TESTS FOR AUDITORY ACUITY 96
A TEST FOR ROTE MEMORY 97
A TEST FOR RANGE OF VOCABULARY 100
CRIME-DETECTION BY PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS 105
THE FACTORY OPERATIVE'S ATTENTION POWER 106
KINDS OF TESTING APPARATUS 108
ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT CALLINGS 109
EXERCISES FOR DEVELOPING SPECIAL FACULTIES 110
PRINCIPLES THAT BEAR ON PRACTICAL AFFAIRS 111

CHAPTER I

JUDICIAL MENTAL OPERATIONS

[Sidenote: _Vitalizing Influence of Certain Ideas_]

One of the greatest discoveries of modern times is the impellent
energy of thought.

That every idea in consciousness is energizing and carries with it an
impulse to some kind of muscular activity is a comparatively new but
well-settled principle of psychology. That this principle could be
made to serve practical ends seems never to have occurred to anyone
until within the last few years.

[Sidenote: _The Work of Prince, Gerrish, Sidis, Janet, Binet_]

Certain eminent pioneers in therapeutic psychology, such men as
Prince, Gerrish, Sidis, Janet, Binet and other physician-scientists,
have lately made practical use of the vitalizing influence of certain
classes of ideas in the healing of disease.

We shall go farther than these men have gone and show you that the
impellent energy of ideas is the means to all practical achievement
and to all practical success.

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