One-Pointed Attention
Make an orderly series of your different studies, so as to throw yourself into them completely. Let each task take entire hold of you, as if it were the only one. That was Napoleon’s secret;…
Tag: AG Sertillanges
The Rules of Memorizing
St. Thomas proposes four rules: (1) To set in order what one wants to rememberbach; (2) to apply the mind deeply to it; (3) to think over it often; (4) when one wants to recollect…
Today’s One-Liner (#262)
What is necessary every moment is to be where we ought to be and to do the thing that matters. –AG Sertillanges, O.P., The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods, trans. Mary Ryan, 242