way 6 life continuously tends to stagnate to become comfortable to become sickled oer with the pale cast of thought against these tendencies a person must stress the need of constant activityphysical action adventure the realistic solution of specific problems as they appear the improvement of techniques for controlling the world and society mans future depends primarily on what he does not on what he feels or on his speculations new problems constantly arise and always will arise improvements must always be made if man is to progress we cant just follow the past or dream of what the future might be we have to work resolutely and continually if control is to be gained over the forces which threaten us man should rely on technical advances made possible by scientific knowledge he should find his goal in the solution of his problems the good is the enemy of the better
Normalization rule (PRN-050): lowercase, strip non-word/space punctuation, collapse whitespace, trim. Used for fast dedup matching across the instrument corpus.
Normative benchmark
No normative benchmark yet for this item. Item-level norms require per-respondent response distributions; they populate from published norms where available and sharpen as anonymized, aggregated deployment responses are contributed (the benchmark flywheel).
Surface variants
The verbatim item text as it appeared in each source instrument. Cross-instrument variation is preserved here; the normalized form above is the dedup key.
WAY 6: Life continuously tends to stagnate, to become 'comfortable,' to become sickled o'er with the pale cast of thought. Against these tendencies, a person must stress the need of constant activity—physical action, adventure, the realistic solution of specific problems as they appear, the improvement of techniques for controlling the world and society. Man's future depends primarily on what he does, not on what he feels or on his speculations. New problems constantly arise and always will arise. Improvements must always be made if man is to progress. We can't just follow the past or dream of what the future might be. We have to work resolutely and continually if control is to be gained over the forces which threaten us. Man should rely on technical advances made possible by scientific knowledge. He should find his goal in the solution of his problems. The good is the enemy of the better.
“WAY 6: Life continuously tends to stagnate, to become 'comfortable,' to become sickled o'er with the pale cast of thought. Against these tendencies, a person must stress the need of constant activity—physical action, adventure, the realistic solution of specific problems as they appear, the improvement of techniques for controlling the world and society. Man's future depends primarily on what he does, not on what he feels or on his speculations. New problems constantly arise and always will arise. Improvements must always be made if man is to progress. We can't just follow the past or dream of what the future might be. We have to work resolutely and continually if control is to be gained over the forces which threaten us. Man should rely on technical advances made possible by scientific knowledge. He should find his goal in the solution of his problems. The good is the enemy of the better.”
Programmatic access: this row is also available via the registry REST surface at /api/v1/items/CITM_0e60af12b994 and via the MCP gateway as principia.items.lookup.