Will-power in business

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Identifikator:: 1838104151

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-227150

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Casson, Herbert Newton http://d-nb.info/gnd/118814435

Title:: Will-power in business

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Efficiency Magazine

Year of publication:: 1931

Scope:: 142 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter I. What is will-power?

Collection:: Economics Books

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 18

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