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Stanley tried to explain to Pope that connecting his transformer in parallel, like connecting a motor in parallel, automatically adjusted the current. “I waxed eloquent over the automatic regulation of the system of parallel connection,” he recalled, “and tried my best to picture the phenomena clearly to him. But Pope’s conviction came slowly—more slowly than my patience could stand.”31 Stanley’s insight was that his parallel-connected transformer could be used to step up the voltage from an alternator while stepping down the amperage. The higher voltage and lower amperage would eliminate the need for thick, heavy wires and make it practical to transmit electricity efficiently across long distances. At the other end of the transmission line, the same process in reverse could step down the voltage to local requirements while boosting the amperage to useful power levels again.
Growing your inner strengths through taking in the good is like deepening the keel of a sailboat so that it’s less jostled by the worldly winds, it recovers more quickly from big storms, and you can now safely head out into deeper waters in pursuit of your dreams. You’ll be turning moments of hedonic well-being into a more fundamental ongoing sense of fulfillment and meaning: what’s called eudaimonic well-being. In a positive circle, feeling better helps you act better, which helps the world treat you better, which helps you feel better.
Hardwiring Happiness
Rick Hanson
Although in 1765 the Americans were not one people, they knew they had much in common. By 1787 they recognized what it was. They were a people who valued liberty and representative government. And well before 1787 they had formed a union among themselves. To be sure the central institution of that union lacked strength, but at least the union had survived. Moreover the people had a history, a short but glorious history of struggle and triumph in war. This history set apart the people of the 1780s from those of twenty years earlier. In a sense, of course, it had called them into being as a people.
The Glorious Cause
Robert Middlekauff
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