How to Increase Your Mental Power
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
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🗓️ 18 July 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Listen to episode 814 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Increase Your Mental Power. Edited and adapted from The Power of Mental Demand by Herbert Edward Law.
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Podcast Transcript: It is safe to say that the average man or woman could increase their mental power thirty percent by the elimination of friction. The mere statement of this fact proves that very thoughtful, systematic, and thorough effort should be made to avoid friction in every area of life.
The effort should be first to avoid it in one's self. Never permit anything to worry or irritate you. Simply make it a principle that you will not be worried, that you will not be irritated, that you will not fret nor worry, and above all, that you will not allow fear, anger, malice, or hatred to enter your mind.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an ad by BetterHelp. |
| 0:02.0 | What comes to mind when you hear the word gratitude? |
| 0:05.0 | Maybe it's a daily practice, or maybe it feels hard to be grateful right now. |
| 0:09.0 | Don't forget to give yourself some thanks by investing in your well-being. |
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| 0:21.7 | Let the gratitude flow. |
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| 0:46.0 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Power of Mental Demand |
| 0:51.3 | by Herbert Edward Law, published in 1916. |
| 0:57.0 | What Is It That Wares Out and Breaks Down Machinery? |
| 1:05.0 | Friction |
| 1:07.0 | What Is It That Wares Out and Breaks Down Lives? Friction. Friction retards action. What is it that wears out and breaks down lives? |
| 1:19.3 | Friction. Friction retards action, reduces productivity, and wastes power. |
| 1:23.9 | It wears, destroys, kills. |
| 1:32.3 | Friction is the most constant problem in mechanics. It is the most destructive element in life. When spoken of literally, friction applies only to physical objects. |
| 1:39.3 | Figuratively and metaphorically, it applies to life and to individual and social relationships. |
| 1:48.0 | As applied to life, it is so apt a figure of speech that we do not realize that it is one until our attention is called to it. |
| 2:00.0 | We speak of friction in an organization or between individuals |
| 2:05.6 | or in our own life and realize that it is so wearing, wasteful, and needless, that it seems |
| 2:15.0 | the very same thing as the friction of mechanics. |
| 2:19.4 | And while we have learned many ways for reducing friction in mechanics, we practice very |
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