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VOL. LIV. N o . 1.
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, Jan. 6 1912
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A Matter of Perspective
ECENTLY a young friend of mine, while discussing some disappointments which he had suffered,
expressed keen regret that he, like many, had not discovered an easy path to success.
Success is not reached by broad boulevards; neither do easy roads lead to ease. The worn
and beaten paths usually run to spots which others have already found.
The ambition to win out along easy lines is not well to encourage, for hard work is at all times nec-
essary to accomplish results, and the man who is seeking to mid easy avenues to success will invariably find
some mighty hard roads to travel.
The more rugged the way the more persistence—the more courage—it requires to win out.
Every man who has succeeded in life and who stops to look back through the years to the early days
when he stood face to face with the problems of life realizes that.the hard work was in finding some way
to search out a solution and that was not an easy task.
It is to be regretted that so many young men have their heads full of false notions as to easy roads to
success.
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Success is another name for hard work, and every man whose life is a progressive one must face
hard work, for growing success means new conditions.
New conditions bring with them new requirements and new responsibilities.
Accordingly the faster we grow or the greater success we attain the more numerous are the demands
that are made upon us.
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T remember some years ago when making the ascent of a high mountain I stopped occasionally to note
how beautifully the horizon widened as I ascended.
From the bottom of the mountain the view of the surrounding country was materially restricted, but
when I commenced to climb higher I began to see things that I had never noticed, and little by little the
view became vastly widened until reaching the top I was able to look over a wide expanse of country that
had all the appearance of a new entrancing world.
Is it not so in business life which, after all, is a matter of perspective?
In the business world the man who has accomplished but little has his vision restricted to a very
narrow horizon, but as he climbs up he sees things with a larger vision and he sees other points beyond
which he is interested in surmounting.
He is not desirous of seeking a particularly easy road because that does not interest him, but it is the
desire to climb higher that spurs him on and that is the difference between the progressive man and the
one who stands still or as nearly still as a person can stand in this world.
Few men, indeed, have reached the higher ground by traveling easy roads, and it is not the proper
spirit to encourage.
There is not only pleasure in the climbing, but one feels particularly good after a hard climb to enjoy
the beautiful sights which are unfolded when the higher altitude is reached.
Oftentimes we find that trouble which we thought all along lay somewhere else, and for which we
blamed the world at large or fate, lies in ourselves,
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