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Concentration
CONCENTRATION
The jack-of-all-trades seldom
accomplishes much at any trade. Life is so complex, and there are so many ways
of dissipating energy unprofitably, that the habit of concentrated effort must
be formed and adhered to, by all who would succeed.
Power is based upon organized effort
or energy. Energy cannot be organized without the habit of concentration of all
the faculties on one thing at a time. An ordinary magnifying glass may be used
to so focus the rays of the sun that they will burn a hole in a board in a few
minutes. Those same rays will not even heat the board until they are
concentrated on one spot.
The human mind is something like a
magnifying glass, because it is the medium through which all the faculties of
the brain may be brought together and made to function, in coordinated
formation, just as the rays of the sun may be focused on one spot with the aid
of that glass.
It is worth considering that all the
outstandingly successful people in all walks of life concentrated the major portion
of their thoughts and efforts upon some one definite purpose, objective, or chief aim.
Witness the impressive list of men who
created and lead American earlier history, whose success was due to their
having acquired and practiced the habit of concentration :
Woolworth concentrated upon the single idea of
five-and-ten cent stores and become one of the nation’s creative geniuses in
the retail field.
Henry Ford concentrated all his energies upon
the single aim of creating a cheap but practical automobile, and that idea made
him one of the most powerful and richest men in history.
Marshall
Field
concentrated his efforts upon building “The World’s Greatest Store” and was
rewarded by tens of millions of dollars, an unthinkable amount at that time.
Van Heusen concentrated years of his efforts on
the production of soft collar, at a time when men thought they would be free of
the stiff collar, and the idea made him wealthy in a comparatively short time,
and with a name forever synonymous with the chosen product of his
concentration.
Wrigley concentrated his efforts upon the
production and sale of a humble five-cent package of chewing gum and was
rewarded by millions of dollars and a memorable place in history for his
perseverance.
Edison concentrated his mind upon the
production of “talking machine”, the electric light, the motion picture, and
stores of other useful inventions, until they all become realities and assured
him a place at the top of the pantheon.
Bessemer concentrated his thoughts upon a
better way to produce steel and Bessemer process is evidence that his efforts
were history-making.
George
Eastman
concentrated his energy upon radically improving the business of photographs,
and this one idea made him multimillionaire.
Andrew Carnegie, the child of immigrants, envisioned a
great steel industry, concentrated his mind upon that purpose and made tens of
millions of dollars.
James J.
Hill,
while still working as a telegrapher at forty dollars a month, concentrated his
thought upon the dream of a great transcontinental railway system and kept on
thinking about it, (and act on his thought as well) until it became a splendid
reality and made him one of the wealthy men of his time.
Cyrus H. K.
Curtis
concentrated his effort upon one idea of producing the best and most popular
magazine on earth, and the splendid Saturday Evening Post was but one of the
results. He not only created a great magazine, but his concentration of thought
brought him millions as well.
Orville
Wright
concentrated upon one goal : mastering the air with a heavier-than-air-machine,
and accomplished it against all odds, with life-changing results.
Marconi concentrated his mind upon one
thought : sending wireless messages and countless lives were improved.
Truly, whatever one can imagine, one
can create, providing the mind concentrates upon it with determination, not to
stop short of victory.
Great and powerful is the human mind
when functioning through the aid of concentrated thought.
Woodrow
Wilson
determined to become President of the United States, twenty-five years before
he actually occupied the president’s chain in the White House, but he kept his
mind concentrated upon this purpose and eventually achieved it.
Ingersoll concentrated on the production of a
good, practical watch that could be sold for one dollar. His idea, plus his
concentrated efforts, made of him a multimillionaire.
E. M.
Statler
concentrated on the building of hotels that rendered home-like service, and
made himself one of the leading hoteliers of the world, to say nothing of many
millions of dollars in wealth.
Rockefeller concentrated his efforts upon the
refining and distribution of oil, and his efforts brought him tens of millions
of dollars.
Russell
Conwell
concentrated a lifetime of effort on the delivery of famous lecture, Acres of
Diamonds, and that one lecture, brought in more than six million dollars at a
time when people were being paid in pennies, and rendered the people of his
time, a service, the extent of which can never be estimated in mere money.
Lincoln concentrated his mind upon freedom
for mankind, and saw his task through, though the end proved unfortunate to
him.
Gillette concentrated upon producing a safety
razor; the idea made him a multimillionaire and linked his name permanently
with all such products.
William
Randolph
Hearst concentrated on newspapers, and became king of his field and lord of his
manor.
Helen Keller was born deaf, dumb, and blind, but
through concentration, she learned to “hear” and to speak, inspiring the world.
So the story might go on and on in one
continuous chain, as evidence, that concentrated effort is profitable. Find out what you wish to do – adopt a
definite chief aim – then concentrate all your energies in support of this purpose
until it has reached a happy climax.
Observe, in analyzing the next law on
co-operation, the close connection between the principles outlined and those
associated with the law of concentration. Wherever, a group of people ally
themselves in an organized, co-operative spirit for the carrying out of some
definite purpose, it will be observed that they are employing the law of
concentration and unless they do so their alliance will be without real power.
Raindrops, as they fall through the
air, each one for itself, helter-skelter, represent a very great form of
energy, but this energy cannot be called real power until those raindrops are
collected in a river or dam, and made to pour their energy over a wheel in
organized fashion; or, until they are confined in a boiler and converted into
stream.
Everywhere, regardless of the form in
which it is found, power is developed through concentrated energy.
Whatever you are doing as your daily
occupation, then, do it with all your attention, with all your heart and soul,
focused on that one definite thing. Success and Happiness will definitely
follow.
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