For insights on motivating change, let’s turn to philosopher William James ... How do you change entrenched habits? “New habits can be launched,” James said, “on condition of there ...

For we should then have to explain why William James happened to be one of them. Anybody else might have taken his place without making any difference to the total, or to the theory. But a great ...

I thought I had come up with something new but soon found that William James had put forward a similar theory. In The Principles of Psychology, he described how children’s slowed sense of time ...

Patriarch William James is a quintessential American success story. He was a dirt-poor Irish farm boy who sailed to the new world with a few coins in his pocket, and through grit and good luck as ...