ABSTRACT
The old phrase “stop and think” is sound psychology. For thinking is stoppage of the immediate manifestation of impulse until that impulse has been brought into connection with other possible tendencies to action so that a more comprehensive plan of activity is formed…. Thinking is thus a postponement of immediate action, while it effects internal control of impulse through a union of observation and memory, this union being the heart of reflection…. What has been said explains the meaning of the well-word phrase “self-control”…. The method of intelligence manifested in the experimental method demands keeping track of ideas, activities, and observed consequences. Keeping track is a matter of reflective review and summarizing, in that there is both discrimination and record of the significant features of a developing experience. To reflect is to look back over what has been done so as to extract the net meanings that are the capital stock for intelligent dealing with further experiences. It is the heart of intellectual organization and of the disciplined mind.
