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Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 373 Fourth Ave., New York, Aug. 3,1912
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Accomplished Through Concentration
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NE reason why there are great masses of humanity who have heen misfits in life is because they
have been idle drifters.
They have lacked a definiteness of purpose necessary to achieve success.
The day of random effort is long past. To succeed under modern conditions one must
concentrate, and concentration means nothing less than well directed effort.
Concentration makes for the elimination of useless effort and it is in truth the mark of efficiency.
To make any kind of a definite stand in life a man must have sufficient self-confidence to stand alone,
and to make any progress in business he must possess enough initiative to take quick steps forward at the
right time.
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In every field of human activity we find changing conditions and, hence, we find the greater need for
higher developed men—for specialists, and specialism is simply another name for concentration.
Trace the history of any successful business house and invariably you will find that it has succeeded
because it brought together and united in a common cause men who were trained to do certain things.
In other words, there was concentration and the man who fails to appreciate just what concentration
means in the fullest sense is the one who usually is falling down.
Trace the history of professional men and you will find great lawyers become constitutional, corpora-
tion, marine, criminal, medico-legal experts simply because they concentrated upon certain sub-divisions
of the law.
It does not, therefore, pay to scatter one's energies.
By all means adopt concentration in yaur daily lives.
If a salesman concentrates his energies upon a particular sale, no matter how hard and unresponsive
the party whom he is seeking to impress, he stands a chance of winning, for by concentrating his energy
and his thoughts upon that particular object, the chances are largely in favor of his winning; but, if
he permits his mind to wander and is not focalizing his mentality upon the work which he is performing, it's
dollars to doughnuts that he loses.
Now, concentration can be applied to every phase of life and I affirm that success is impossible with-
out concentration.
A man of even mediocre ability may pull himself up by developing his concentrative powers.
He may not be an all around man, easily adaptable to all conditions, but he can win in a limited
degree a success which would be absolutely impossible with scattered energies.
Concentrate—then concentrate—still Concentrate.