Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 26, DeMotte, Jasper County, 19 January 1933 — WORKING TO CAPACITY [ARTICLE]

WORKING TO CAPACITY

William James once advanced the theory that few human beings ever work up to their fullest capacity. Vast energy resources are hidden by the habit of fatigue obstacles which we never break through. It is possible that we possess not only a second wind but a third and a fourth. “In exceptional cases we may find, beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all because habitually we never push through the obstruction, never pass those early critical points,” James says.