"In crossing the salt-marshes, your sole concern should be to get over them quickly, without any delay."
Hmm, perhaps I found a way to relate this part of AoW to the modern day after all.
"In crossing the salt-marshes, your sole concern should be to get over them quickly, without any delay."
[The journal of self-education] is the place where the reader takes external information and records it (through the use of quotes, as in the commonplace book); appropriates it through a summary, written in the reader's own words; and then evaluates it through reflection and personal thought. ~ Page 36.
"When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened." ~ From Page 36, Part II, Number 2
"Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays." ~ Same page, Same part, Number 5.
"the volunteers who were told to consciously think about the decision for a specific amount of time performed poorly in both experiments [conducted in the study]." (emphasis mine)
"although unconscious thought may help us make the right decision in some instances, it is often better to rely on self-paced conscious thought and really focus on the problem at hand."
...if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be damped.and
. . . though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.