{"product_id":"only-half-awake-william-james-phone-case","title":"Only Half Awake — William James Phone Case","description":"\u003cp\u003eA literary quote phone case featuring William James's \"Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake.\" Psychology and philosophy by Quoteiac.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColumbia, December 1906. James told a room of professional philosophers that the interesting question was not what a mind is, but how little of one most people ever put into service.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e— William James, \u003cem\u003eThe Energies of Men\u003c\/em\u003e (1907)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eContext\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe obstruction, in James's account, is not physical. It is habitual — \"we live habitually with a sort of cloud weighing on us,\" below our own best clearness, sureness, and firmness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHabits are built out of repetitions. Most of yours now happen against a phone you pick up somewhere north of a hundred times a day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It's For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou're the one who already knows roughly how many times you reach for it, and would rather meet a real sentence there than another notification.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot a lecture and not a lock screen guilt-trip. Just a 1907 argument, in your hand, at the exact site of the habit it describes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sentence starts at full strength and steps back a shade with each line. Then the last two words arrive stacked and enormous, each one cut clean across the middle — lit on top, unlit beneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNothing is missing from those letters. The bottom half is all there and simply not switched on. The cut lands in the same place on both words, so it reads as one gesture repeated, and you see it every time you turn the phone over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Case\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDual-layer protection: polycarbonate outer shell, TPU inner liner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrecisely aligned port openings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCompatible with wireless charging\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelect your model at checkout — compatible with a wide range of iPhone models\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWilliam James, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived 1842–1910; took a medical degree and then never practiced medicine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTaught anatomy and physiology at Harvard before talking his way into teaching psychology, a subject the university did not yet have\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrother of the novelist Henry James — the family joke was that William wrote psychology like fiction and Henry wrote fiction like psychology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKept turning theory back into practice: what does this idea change about how a person actually lives?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Energies of Men\u003c\/em\u003e (1907) is that instinct at full strength — a paper on human capacity delivered to philosophers as a practical problem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eMore from this author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/pages\/only-half-awake-james\"\u003eOnly Half Awake — The Quote\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/only-half-awake-william-james-tee\"\u003eOnly Half Awake — William James T-Shirt\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/only-half-awake-william-james-mug\"\u003eOnly Half Awake — William James Mug\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca 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