[Gutenberg 17334] • Initiative Psychic Energy / Being the Sixth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the / Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and / Business Efficiency

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MENTAL SECOND WIND

[Sidenote: *Sticking to the Job* ]

Are you an unusually persevering and persistent person? Or, like most

of us, do you sometimes find it difficult to stick to the job until it

is done? What is your usual experience in this respect?

Is it not this, that you work steadily along until of a sudden you

become conscious of a feeling of weariness, crying "Enough!" for the

time being, and that you then yield to the impulse to stop?

[Sidenote: *The Lagging Brain* ]

Assuming that this is what generally happens, does this feeling of

fatigue, this impulse to rest, mean that your mental energy is

exhausted?

Suppose that by a determined effort of the will you force your lagging

brain to take up the thread of work. *There will invariably come a new

supply of energy, a "second wind," enabling you to forge ahead with a

freshness and vigor that is surprising after the previous lassitude.*

Nor is this all. The same process may be repeated a second time and a

third time, each new effort of the will being followed by a renewal of

energy.