Strengthlab on Jul 26th 2012 StrengthLab Thoughts
There’s no problem with having a weak thought… it’s certainly the behavior that may soon follow that matters most.
Primary emotions and impulses originate in our lower “automatic brain” called the cerebellum, and frequently – if not most of the time – without our personal volition. Subsequently, weak thoughts can soon follow in their respective shadows.
The cerebrum (the higher brain) is where we decide to give merit and eventual action to these emotions and impulses or to redirect them in a more positive and constructive pattern of thought.
In other words, we can’t always control the initial emotion or impulse but we certainly have the capacity to decide what to do with them once experienced.
Strengthlab on Jul 26th 2012 StrengthLab Thoughts
Constructive habits and desires – as well as destructive habits and desires – reside within all of us. The resolve to consistently pursue constructive habits and desires, instead of destructive habits and desires, is what is commonly referred to as self-discipline.
Strengthlab on Jul 26th 2012 StrengthLab Thoughts
Time has not diminshed this quote by Theodore Roosevelt:
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
“Citizenship in a Republic,”
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910