And the average mind,
like the average physical organs, can be made more efficient through
partaking of the proper mental food, through careful training and wise
use.
No more urgent necessity faces the professional woman than this of
training her mind to its highest productiveness. Argument is not needed
to convince intelligent people today that the accomplishment of life
depends upon mentality.
Let us look into the very A, B, C's of mind development, and as nurses
undertake to equip ourselves to master our profession from the ground
up. The first essential is ability to think clearly.
_Steps to Clear Thinking_:
1. Accurate perception, with attention to the thing that reason chooses.
2. Association of ideas.
3. Concentration, acquired by the help of emotion and will.
4. Emotional equilibrium, which refuses to allow feeling to obscure
judgment by leading reason astray.
5. Self-correction.
6. Automatic habits, which free the mind of all unnecessary crowding.
ACCURACY OF PERCEPTION
The beginning of learning is perception.
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