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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    There are, on the other hand, many men and women who cut down their fitness and ul- timate efficiency by continually overdoing and never allowing themselves a good time. They go to the other extreme. I know self-made men who formed such iron habits of work when they started as poor boys, when their success depended upon working a great many hours every day, that they have become slaves to the habit. Ko matter whether they feel like it or not, they compel themselves to remain in their offices or factories just so many hours a day, when, perhaps, three- fourths )Of the time they are merely mechan- ically forcing their brains to do very ordinary work. They could accomplish more and bet- ter work in less than half the time with fresh, vigorous brains and minds elastic and spon- taneous. They do not realize that a mind that is habitually held to its task by will-power for long hours after a time becomes permanently injured by losing its spring or resilience, just as a bow would lose its power to rebound if it were always strung. These men know this principle very well, and they can see that their friends who are
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