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LEISURE
While youth is time of many impulses, the time of imperfectly organized
ambitions and wild dreams. A time of seeking and finding, of trying and testing.
The man of few strong wishes is likely to attain happy living much more easily than one moved by many. This is mere arithmetic.
The young person is a bundle of appetites and energies, few of which are
well organized. In the first half of ones life it is normal to suffer a prolonged conflict of interest. We have not had time to discover either
the world or ourselves. Our wishes have not yet had a fair chance to fight it out among themselves. We confuse interest with abilities.
We learn what absorbs us. Hazy interest or weak interests or incompatible interests make learning difficult. And this is why young
people progress more slowly than older.
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