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Getting A Handle On Free Will Innovate: Philosopher William James changed the way America thought.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)
Byline: SEAN HIGGINS
William James knew that nothing was impossible. If people didn't believe it, he offered himself as proof.
Long a victim of poor physical health, James (1842-1910) also suffered from crippling depression and panic attacks. By 1870, he found the anguish overwhelming.
"I awoke morning after morning with a horrible dread at the pit of my stomach and with a sense of insecurity of life that I never knew before," he recalled.
There seemed no way out.
Then he read a book on the idea of free will. Hope ignited, he decided to try and will himself out of his depression.
"My first act of free will," he wrote, "shall be to believe in free will."
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