Personal Life
Simon was married to Rita James Simon, who was also a longtime member of the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and later became a public affairs professor at American University. Simon suffered from a long time depression, which allowed him to work only a few productive hours in a day. He also studied psychology of depression and wrote a book on overcoming it. One of his theses was, that when you feel inferior and failed, you should just mentally force yourself to stop the comparisons between yourself and other people.
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