ARTICLE
William James on the Psychology of the Second Wind and What Enables Us to Transcend Our Limits
By Maria Popova
James begins with the curious psychological phenomenon of the “second wind,” familiar to everyone from athletes to artists to entrepreneurs — a perplexity that had captivated his imagination for years.
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE
CLEAR ALL
BY TOPIC
BY TEACHER
BY TYPE
FILTER
TOPIC
- Self-Actualization (29)
- Kids and Sports (28)
- Well-Being (27)
- Performance Pressure (24)
- Identity (23)
- Creative Well-Being (21)
- Physical Health (20)
- Self-Pressure (19)
- Work-Life Balance (19)
- Self-Mastery (18)
- Self-Realization (17)
- BIPOC Well-Being (16)
- Cancer (16)
- Self-Care (16)
- Women’s Well-Being (15)
- Illness and Injury (14)
- Mind-Body Connection (14)
- Anxiety (13)
- Caregiver Well-Being (13)
- Goal Setting (13)
- Stress (13)
- Depression (12)
- Diet and Nutrition (12)
- Emotional Labor (12)
- Exercise (12)
- Focus (12)
- Mindfulness (12)
- Motivation (12)
- Self-Acceptance (12)
- Spiritual Growth (12)
- Stress Management (12)
- Transcendent Experience (12)
- Young Adult Well-Being (12)
- LGBTQIA Well-Being (11)
- Meditation (11)
- Neuroscience (11)
- Self-Discovery (11)
- Addiction (10)
- Authenticity (10)
- Gender Discrimination (10)
- Happiness (10)
- Human Potential (10)
- Leadership (10)
- Parenting (10)
- Resilience (10)
- Search for Purpose (10)
- Self-Development (10)
- Eating Disorders (9)
- Motherhood (9)
- ADD/ADHD (8)
- Belonging (8)
- Betrayal (8)
- Black Well-Being (8)
- Job Loss (8)
- Neurodiversity (8)
- Self-Worth (8)
- Setting Limits and Boundaries (8)
- Altered States (7)
- Chronic Pain (7)
- Communication Skills (7)
- Criticism and Rejection (7)
- Discrimination (7)
- Entrepreneurship (7)
- Gender Challenges (7)
- Growth Mindset (7)
- Habits of Mind (7)
- Imagination and Creativity (7)
- Performance Anxiety (7)
- Pleasing Parents (7)
- Racial Discrimination (7)
- Racism (7)
- Self-Expression (7)
- Self-Healing (7)
- Self-Limiting Beliefs (7)
- Self-Love (7)
- Self-Reflection Practices (7)
- Sleep (7)
- Transformation (7)
- Activism/Service (6)
- Aging (6)
- Body Image (6)
- Clinical Depression (6)
- Confidence (6)
- Courage (6)
- Disabled Well-Being (6)
- Emotional Intelligence (EQ) (6)
- Empathy (6)
- Endurance (6)
- Female Empowerment (6)
- Grit (6)
- Healthy Eating (6)
- Identity Shifts (6)
- Life-Altering Injury (6)
- Plateauing (6)
- Productivity (6)
- Relationship with Time (6)
- Religious Experience (6)
- Self-Esteem (6)
- Autism (5)
- Breathwork (5)
- Decision Making (5)
- Empowerment (5)
- Gender Identity (5)
- Mentoring (5)
- Passion (5)
- Positive Self-Talk (5)
- Regret (5)
- Speaking Your Truth (5)
- Spiritual Life (5)
- Transgender Well-Being (5)
- Work Relationships (5)
- Chronic Anxiety (4)
- Community Healing (4)
- Conflict Resolution (4)
- Connection with Nature (4)
- Cross-Cultural Dynamics (4)
- Drug Addiction (4)
- Family Dynamics (4)
- Homophobia (4)
- Kindness (4)
- Loneliness (4)
- Mental Health Challenges (4)
- Mindfulness Meditation (4)
- Mindfulness Practices (4)
- Negative Self-Talk (4)
- Nonbinary Well-Being (4)
- Presence (4)
- Racial Justice (4)
- Rest (4)
- Self-Control (4)
- Self-Reliance (4)
- Suicide (4)
- Trust (4)
- Yoga (4)
- Anger Management (3)
- Awareness (3)
- Brain Health (3)
- Buddhism (3)
- Building Culture (3)
- Collaboration (3)
- Compassion (3)
- Compassion Fatigue (3)
- Consciousness (3)
- Curiosity (3)
- Ego (3)
- Enlightenment (3)
- Fellowship and Community (3)
- Generosity (3)
- Gratitude (3)
- Indigenous Well-Being (3)
- Journaling (3)
- Letting Go (3)
- Living with Illness (3)
- Men’s Well-Being (3)
- Offering Support to Others (3)
- Positive Thinking (3)
- Psychedelic Journey (3)
- Quitting Your Job (3)
- Racial Identity (3)
- Relationship Challenges (3)
- Self-Reckoning (3)
- Shame (3)
- Social Responsibility (3)
- Transitions (3)
- Trauma Healing (3)
- Unfulfilled Career (3)
- Values (3)
- Visualization (3)
- Weight Concerns (3)
- Adaptability (2)
- Addiction Recovery (2)
- Anorexia (2)
- Asking for Help (2)
- Biohacking (2)
- Buddha Nature (2)
- Child’s ADD/ADHD (2)
- Child’s Emotional Growth (2)
- Climate Change (2)
- Coming Out (2)
- Connection (2)
- Ego Dissolution (2)
- Ego Transcendence (2)
- Failure (2)
- Fatigue (2)
- Fear (2)
- Finding Meaning (2)
- Forgiveness (2)
- Gender Justice (2)
- Guided Meditation (2)
- Habit Formation (2)
- Handling a Loved One’s Illness (2)
- Inner Life (2)
- Inner Peace (2)
- Insomnia (2)
- Inspiration (2)
- Intention (2)
- Latinx Well-Being (2)
- Life Challenges (2)
- Lifestyle Medicine (2)
- Neuroplasticity (2)
- Neuropsychology (2)
- Othering (2)
- Perception (2)
- Personal Development (2)
- Play (2)
- Psychedelic Research (2)
- Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (2)
- Racial Healing (2)
- Retirement (2)
- Ritual (2)
- Sexual Assault or Abuse (2)
- Sleep Disorders (2)
- Slumps (2)
- Social Justice (2)
- Social Presence (2)
- Spiritual Development (2)
- The Divine (2)
- The Feldenkrais Method (2)
- The Yips (2)
- Tibetan Buddhism (2)
- Time Management (2)
- Visions and Hallucinations (2)
- Willpower (2)
- AAPI Well-Being (1)
- Acceptance (1)
- Acupressure (1)
- Affirmations (1)
- Awe (1)
- Body Positivity (1)
- Bulimia (1)
- Bullying (1)
- Cannabis/CBD (1)
- Child’s Anxiety (1)
- Child’s Autism (1)
- Children’s Well-Being (1)
- Christianity (1)
- Chronic Health Conditions (1)
- Clairvoyance and Precognition (1)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (1)
- Compassion Meditation (1)
- Competition (1)
- Conscious Evolution (1)
- Cross-Cultural Parenting (1)
- Death or Loss of a Loved One (1)
- Dementia (1)
- Diamond Approach (1)
- DMT (1)
- Drug Policy (1)
- Economic Justice (1)
- Embodiment (1)
- Energy Healing (1)
- Epigenetics (1)
- Fasting for Health (1)
- Female Friendship (1)
- Financial Instability (1)
- Forest Bathing (1)
- Freedom (1)
- Friendship (1)
- Gender Transition (1)
- God (1)
- Healing Approaches (1)
- Higher Calling (1)
- Highly Sensitive People (1)
- Holotropic Breathwork (1)
- Household Labor (1)
- Ibogaine (1)
- Immigration and Assimilation (1)
- Inner Strengths (1)
- Integrative Medicine (1)
- Integrity (1)
- Interdependence (1)
- Intimacy (1)
- Karma (1)
- Ketamine (1)
- Learning Styles (1)
- LGBTQIA Sexuality (1)
- Life Force Energy (1)
- Living as an Empath (1)
- Longevity (1)
- Loss of Partner/Spouse (1)
- Love (1)
- Lovingkindness Meditation (1)
- LSD (1)
- Managing Energy (1)
- Masculine/Feminine Dynamics (1)
- Memory (1)
- Military to Civilian Re-entry (1)
- Moral Philosophy (1)
- Optimism (1)
- Other Dimensions and Beings (1)
- Patience (1)
- Personality Disorders (1)
- Poverty/Economic Inequality (1)
- Problem Solving (1)
- Psychology (1)
- PTSD (1)
- Quantum Physics (1)
- Race and Gender (1)
- Relationship with Money (1)
- Self-Compassion (1)
- Self-Employment (1)
- Sex (1)
- Shadow (1)
- Social Psychology (1)
- Soul Mission (1)
- Spiritual Direction (1)
- Spiritual Healing (1)
- Spirituality and Health (1)
- Subconscious (1)
- Suffering (1)
- Transpersonal Psychology (1)
- Unity (1)
- Veteran Well-Being (1)
- Vulnerability (1)
- Wake-Up Calls (1)
- Whiteness (1)
- Wholeness (1)
- Women’s Rights (1)
- Work Ethic (1)
- Yoga Nidra (1)
FILTER
TEACHER
- Edward Hallowell (3)
- Mark Manson (3)
- Naomi Osaka (3)
- Yoni Freedhoff (3)
- Arianna Huffington (2)
- Brendon Burchard (2)
- Deepak Chopra (2)
- don Jose Ruiz (2)
- Jay Shetty (2)
- john a. powell (2)
- Kelly McGonigal (2)
- Martha Beck (2)
- Michael Murphy (2)
- Moshé Feldenkrais (2)
- Oprah Winfrey (2)
- Richard Davidson (2)
- Simone Biles (2)
- Tara Brach (2)
- Tony Robbins (2)
- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2)
- A. H. Almaas (1)
- Adam Grant (1)
- Alan Watts (1)
- Amy Morin (1)
- Anne Lamott (1)
- Bruce Lipton (1)
- Byron Katie (1)
- Carolyn Baker (1)
- Chalene Johnson (1)
- Chelsey Luger (1)
- Connie Zweig (1)
- Daniel Goleman (1)
- Dave Asprey (1)
- Elena Brower (1)
- Emiliana Simon-Thomas (1)
- Frances Vaughan (1)
- Herbert Benson (1)
- Jacqueline Carter (1)
- Jeff Brown (1)
- Joan Borysenko (1)
- Joe Dispenza (1)
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1)
- Karen Johnson (1)
- Light Watkins (1)
- Marie Forleo (1)
- Matt Kahn (1)
- Mel Robbins (1)
- Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (1)
- Oshoke Pamela Abalu (1)
- Poppy Jamie (1)
- Ram Dass (1)
- Reginald Ray (1)
- Rich Fernandez (1)
- Rick Hanson (1)
- Rick Strassman (1)
- Roland Griffiths (1)
- Saeed Jones (1)
- Sri Dharma Mittra (1)
- Stephen Covey (1)
- Sue Morter (1)
- Temple Grandin (1)
- Wayne Dyer (1)
- William James (1)
- Wim Hof (1)