Keeping fit / by Orison Swett Marden.

  • Orison Swett Marden
Date:
[1914]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Keeping fit / by Orison Swett Marden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Some of the largest employers in the coun- try tell me that many employees come to their work in the morning so completely used up, their faculties jaded, their spirits low, that they are incapable of accuracy or satisfactory efficiency. They have no enthusiasm for their work; their minds wander; they make all sorts of mistakes and blunders, and their vitality is so depleted that they are in no condition to focus their powers upon their work. The su- perintendent of one of the largest concerns in New York tells me that it is really pitiable to watch some of the employees when they come to work mornings, especially after holidays. He says they look as if they had already been through a hard, trying day’s work, and were utterly exhausted and ready to quit work in- stead of just starting it for the day. He says that it often takes half a day or more for them to get into condition to do even passable work; that they are indifferent, without energy or enthusiasm all the forenoon; and that, in fact, often many of them do not get into the true swing of their work during the entire day. These workers probably think they are hav- ing a good time in thus dissipating their energy
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