WILL-POWER IN BUSINESS

and so on. Never before was there so much to
amuse us.
Every morning and every evening the news-
paper brings us a new array of excitements.
We read about revolutions and murder mys-
teries and scandals and disasters and crime
and the ups and downs of the political game.

We are like a lot of excited children in a
new and wonderful playground. We dash
about in motor cars. We sit agape in cinemas.
We would as soon miss a breakfast as a morning
paper. We turn on the radio. We buy new
gramophone records. We look to see if
Scotland Yard has caught a murderer. We
play golf and tennis and bridge. We bet on a
horse. We work out crossword puzzles. We
wait breathlessly for the result of a sweepstake
or the Cup Final.
We are, to tell the truth, overwhelmed with
entertainment. A flood of sensations is
pouring in on the brain. It is all very exciting,
very amusing, very pleasant, but, as you can
see, all this makes it harder than ever before
for a man to concentrate his thoughts and his
powers upon the carrying out of his own plans.
His Purpose-will is likely to be overcome.
So much is being done for us that we have
become passive. We move only with the
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