The Washington times., 1930-02-10
What Kind of a Game Do
You Play?
HIS editorial which might be headed KEEP YOUR
MIND ON THE ONE IMPORTANT THING" It is an
Is Your Mind ON the Real Game or on Dozen
.l<t Outside Onesf

editorial about concentration, about putting your REAL
thought your real WORK.
You don't need the editorial and ought not to time
reading you quite that the best that is you
IL being used every hour and used to give you the best
chance possible.
Among million men there may be two that really
play the game Of life good player plays the Of
chess The one or two in million do not need talk
think about the importance Of concentration all the
rest need realize what intense concentration might
mean for
There isn't man who doesn't WANT something that he
hasn't got There isn't that isn't planning in
less aess way do something to get something, to BE
something And there really that could succeed
fairly WELL at least IF HE COULD ONLY KEEP HIS MIND
ON REAL THINGS AND OFF OF OTHER THINGS
you two play chess good player and
bad player? The bad player begins apoogng for himself
before the thing starts apologies all the through and
loses at the end though the queen or other pieces be
given to him in advance.
The good player sits down. looks good nauredy his op
snsly smiling and easily BUT HIS MIND HAS BEEN ON THE
GAME.
Life is game Every of must play it whether he
to not And everyone plays the game with the same
old partner-TIME
At Lfe table, opposite you sits Time with his scythe and
at his elbow the stakes-sUCCEss.
Anything that takes your mind off the game gives Time the
advantage That say anything that does not at the
time add TO YOUR POWER of work and thought.
Time plays against us ALL and he nearly always wins Mil
lions of and women in the world are saying every day.
IF were YOUNGER would do this II would do that
Every man thinks of what he would do he had to live
again the hours during which he let Time win while he lost
There is no use going back to the moves that have been
made foohl. The game is still and it is too late
to win it if will MAKE UP your mind concentrate your
mind and brush aside interruption
Time is good natured old man. he plays fairly and len
emily is relentless in his steady onward pace; he
Fiat one day Off The BOARD But you can win and
beat him in the days that remain, if you will
Lectures concentration are needed by YOUNG men
ciay. For their temptations the most Much
Intelligence used up trying to get their minds away from
the real work.
Foolish fashion makes them waste time their clothes
their hats THEIR LOOKS when those looks moth
ing The of brains should simply make up his mind
LOOK CLEAN TO SHOW SELF RESPECT; nothing else
matters
The hard thing for young and others remember is
that THEIR WORK is their real occupation Take the
other s MERE AMUsEMENT T If you should try at that
time to interest him in some outside thing kind of
hat band color for the cravat he would say
you, Don't bother me- am busy NOW, you will make
lose the game
How many know enough to the thing when they
playing LIES REAL game which is the game Of wOrk7
The road before every perfectly clear and there
only Just sre ONE 7 Cf gssng o that road which TO
Suppose a locked up in jail and had to make
his way What would you think Of him if one dav he
started to bore hole in ONE spot and the day started
hole in another spot and kept all his life starting little
holes in different spots and going with any
them? You would think him lunac Yet that is exactly
what ninety nine out of hundred do in this e We
are all Of us locked here all Of imprisoned by cond
tons through which must bore hole want to get
Oub amount 10 aHyCnng we way ana that
way and try the other and do nothing WHEREAS BY TRY
ING ONE WAY AND KEEPING AT THAT WAY WE
COULD GET OUT IN THE END.
We have talked this subject of concentration to young
men before We shall talk about it again YOU CANNOT
SUCCEED IN THE BIG THINGS IF YOU LET THE LITTLE
THINGS TAKE UP YOUR MIND AND YOUR TIME
your best thought to the selection Of hat and your
second best thought to the selection your clothes and your
third best thought to some profound speculation the
Or the result Of the baseball competition WHAT KIND OF
THOUGHT Is LEFT FOR THE REAL WORK?
And what In the world help kind
Of success except steady grinding at the real work?
When you wake in the morning say to YOURSELF II am
going to keep at work and think nothing else today
Don't think with how little work you get through today
but on the contrary HOW MUCH work you get into it.
Whatever you have undertaken do do it better than the
next and not only better than the next man BUT AS
WELL AS IT Is POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO DO IT
We do not share the comfortable theory that ANY man can
achieve anything that he desires he will hard enough
That not true Edison could possibly have painted as
well Sargent and Sargent could not possibly have developed
Edison's inventive genius.
But neither Edison nor Sargent any other man that you