© WILL-POWER IN BUSINESS
No doubt there are inventors to-day, walking
about the streets of London, with new ideas
and methods that would revolutionize whole
industries, and they do not know where to
go. This tragic contest still goes on—one man
against the world.
We can learn much from inventors for this
reason—they are always men who observe
and concentrate. They always take a keen
interest in a difficult problem. They notice.
They compare. They improve. They are
Creative Thinkers. They show us how to
develop a Purpose-will.
|. To notice—that is the first step in the
building up of will-power. The man who has
dull eyes will always have a weak will or a
divided mind. There cannot be a strong,
dominant group of concepts in the brain
unless a man is keen to see and to learn.
About forty years ago a young mechanic
was Sitting in his small bedroom in a cheap
boarding house. There was a little common
clock on the mantelpiece. He looked at the
clock. As he looked he thought. Suddenly an
entirely new idea sprang into his mind.

“If I could make that clock as small as a
watch,” he thought, ‘I could sell it for
4s. 2d. I could make a fortune.”

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