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Thus had Grant wrought in a seventeen-day campaign during which his army marched 180 miles, fought and won five engagements against separate enemy forces which if combined would have been almost as large as his own, inflicted 7,200 casualties at the cost of 4,300, and cooped up an apparently demoralized enemy in the Vicksburg defenses. Of all the tributes Grant received, the one he appreciated most came from his friend Sherman. “Until this moment I never thought your expedition a success,” Sherman told Grant on May 18 as he gazed down from the heights where his corps had been mangled the previous December. “I never could see the end clearly until now. But this is a campaign. This is a success if we never take the town.”6
The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom
James M. McPherson
Beware of the myth everything in moderation. Does this include tobacco? Recent comments in research journals put this in perspective: Sugar is the new tobacco. In addition to gut and immune problems, carbohydrate intolerance can lead to chronic inflammation, promoting pain, physical injury and disability, and chronic illness like Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cancer, cardiovascular and Alzheimer’s diseases, and many other health dysfunctions.
B Sharp!
Philip Maffetone
because the subjects were recording responses about an activity at the very moment they were engaged in it, the responses were more accurate. Csikszentmihalyi and Larson called the approach the experience sampling method (ESM), and it provided unprecedented insight into how we actually feel about the beats of our daily lives. Among many breakthroughs, Csikszentmihalyi’s work with ESM helped validate a theory he had been developing over the preceding decade: “The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.” Csikszentmihalyi calls this mental state flow (a term he popularized with a 1990 book of the same title). At the time, this finding pushed back against conventional wisdom. Most people assumed (and still do) that relaxation makes them happy. We want to work less and spend more time in the hammock. But the results from Csikszentmihalyi’s ESM studies reveal that most people have this wrong: Ironically, jobs are actually easier to enjoy than free time, because like flow activities they have built-in goals, feedback rules, and challenges, all of which encourage one to become involved in one’s work, to concentrate and lose oneself in it. Free time, on the other hand, is unstructured, and requires much greater effort to be shaped into something that can be enjoyed.
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