A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
Interpretation
A well-adjusted individual learns from their mistakes and remains calm despite repeating them.
This quote by Alexander Hamilton highlights the idea that emotional resilience is key to personal well-being. A well-adjusted person can face challenges and setbacks without losing their composure or confidence, understanding that mistakes are a part of the growth process.
In practice
This quote would be great to share during a team meeting to encourage colleagues to learn from failures.
When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.
The tendency of a national bank is to increase public and private credit. The former gives power to the state, for the protection of its rights and interests: and the latter facilitates and extends the operations of commerce among individuals. Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
The Achaeans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.
The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in proportion as the current of popular favor is checked. The great source of free government, popular election, should be perfectly pure, and the most unbounded liberty allowed.
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute nothingness of the self-image.
To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.
I'm often reassured in a bizarre - perhaps perverse - way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my assumptions have been. That's interesting and exciting.
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
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