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1946 mood chart: know your bad weeks two months in advance

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 22, 2026
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A scientist described in the September 1946 issue of True: The Men’s Magazine kept a chart on his lab wall that looked like a stock graph. The peaks and valleys represented his mood cycle. High weeks, he’d “feel equal to tackling tigers with his bare hands.” Low weeks, he’d “sell out for a nickel.” “Don’t start an argument with me today!” he told writer…

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