William James: Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every…
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
In today’s wordsKeep your capacity for effort alive with a little unnecessary exercise every day. Be disciplined, even heroic, in small things: every day or two, do something just because you'd rather not, so that when real need comes, you're not shaken or untrained for the test.
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