Evening star., 1942-04-27
Rest Creates
Necessary
Energy
Exhausted Feeling
IL Likely Cause
OF Failure
By Josebkiss Loscmss

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by JoseNkins Loscmss
FEELING tired ID the most Inn
pdrtAnt reason for failure In busi-
Kess and happiness. Pew buxinesses,
marriages or individual lives require
brilliancs for success. A. 4 matter
Of fact, records show that the bril-
liant student, the one with m ex-
tremeiy high intelligence rating,
often fails. while ths one with m
average mind, plus m abundance
Of energy. scars 70 the topI
The same thing u true Of salts
factory living and of happiness.
Excess energy means enthusiasn.
optimism. courage and f1ne think
ing, while lowered energy spells
larkluster. boredom and IA unsttmu-
iating output In work and human
rclationships.
After an intensive study of the
lives Of great men, Francis Dalton
found that vibrant energy was one
characteristic which they had In
common $500 energy which simply
goaded them into activity and ere.
atiye living. OF course. there are
exceptions 10 this rule, but II 10
interesting to note that even these
exceptions recognized the necessity
OF utilizing what energy they had
In the best possible way and building
1t to rs high a level rs possible.
Herbert Spencer worked only .
few hours each day and spent the
remainder Of his time building en-
ergy because he knew he could not
do his best thinking without 1t.
Kant divided his thought between
his work and care Of his health.
Darwin attributed his success to the
fact that ne was frail and therefore
had to learn how to sidestep wastes
In his energy.
Most Of the folks In this world
who assume q supposedly sophisu-
Gated. rather Indifferent attitude
toward life are, In reality, persons
who have too little energy to become
vibrantly interested In anything.
In his wonderful book, Lave Up
TO Yourself" Daniel w. Josselyn
says: 1T is an unchanging law Of
nature that you are not tired be-
cause you are working too hard or
doing more work than one man
should do. Rather, II you are tired,
II Ii certain that you are not doing
a. much work as you should. II
you are tired today, or tomorrow,
or every day, you cannot possibly be
at your bcst-you are an inemcient
machine"
This Is Z new application Of m
old thcory-that = stitch In time
saves nine. We now 90 TO bed with
the first sniffle to prevent . cold.
we use cream to prevent wrinkles
and take antitoxins to prevent dis
ease.
instead Of getting tired and then
trying to cure 1t Why not prevent
fatigue in the fsrst placer We take
fetigue too much for granted. II
ID not 1 necessary adjufetTto living.
Scientists are agreed tldt hAfd work
never hurt any one. Apply thought
and intelligence to the plan OF your
everyday life and live with that
precious margin Of energy,
Frederick w. Taylor, the efnciency
expert, carried out . most tlluminat-
ing experiment at Bethlehem Steel
works. Mr.. Taylor found that each
man there was carrying IAN tons
of pig iron 4 day, loading cars. Inc
men were exhausted at night.
He selected one man for his ex-
pertinent. Mr.. Taylor sat with his
watch In hand all day long while
he directed this man to Pick up
pig and walk. Now cit down and
rest" The rest periods were 20 fre-
uuent that the man never became
tired. The result was that he car
ried l7h tons that first day and
kept 1t up for years afterward. The
wonderful part was that he was not
nearly % tired at night as his CO.
workers who had carried only .
third Is much as he.
The reason for this result lies In
the fact that rest is repair. When
you rest, your body Is busy repairing
itself and these repairs require q
certain amount Of energy. Therefore
your body can do its repair much
more ef1ciently and rapidly II you
give It this opportunity before 1t Is
20 fatigued that repair is almost
impossible or at least very slow.
Daniel w. Josselyn says, you rest
much more quickly and completely
II you rest while you are fresh. In
this way you can reduce your total
resting time greatly even though you
rest oftener. You also can work at
top speed and accuracy, unham-
pered by fatigue. Efficiency ex-
perts have found no relation be-
tween fatigue and the amount OF |
work accomplished. Rather it is
how you work that tires you. You
can wear yourself out with merely
waiting for q tardy friend while you
car, carry MIC iron without fatfc1.n "