The human individual lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use. He energizes below his maximum, and he behaves below his optimum . . . the habit of inferiority to our full self—that is bad.
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Author
William James
American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.