THE NAPOLEON PLAN
Dr. William Brown, speaking in the Psychology section of the British Association at Cambridge, told of a patient who in his earlier days had a great admiration for Napoleon, and, by adopting the Napoleonic guiding principle of taking the straightest line possible to his objective and massing all his forces at the particular point of assault, succeeded in his own career. The patient had the impression, wrongly, that Napoleon died at 57. He himself was approaching this age, but when he was 53 or 54 he discovered that Napoleon died at 52. From that moment the direction of his life was changed •for the better in the respect that he was released from this subconscious bondage of admiration and fixation upon a historical character,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 86, 8 October 1938, Page 10
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127THE NAPOLEON PLAN Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 86, 8 October 1938, Page 10
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