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In speaking of active effort we do not wish to imply
that extreme mobility which certain people are inclined to dignify by the name
of work.
Really fruitful activity is very seldom noisy. It has the qualities of
perseverance, of which it is an important factor.
Too violent movement never lasts and when it is over it leaves weariness behind
it.
Now the cessation of effort always brings with it the arrest of progress, and we
know already that everything which does not progress degenerates.
From this it results that fatigue by becoming associated in our minds with our
disappointment, tends to destroy in us all the incentive to renew the struggle.
In those cases where people of perseverance see nothing worse than a temporary
inconvenience, those who lack confidence in themselves will discover an
absolutely insurmountable obstacle.
Instead of redoubling their efforts, they will stop to lament over their
troubles, and will declare their attempt quite impossible of ultimate success
and will devote themselves to the accomplishment of some merely partial result.
Belief in oneself is a mighty lever, in the hands even of the weakest.
In every sort of enterprise, it is the lighthouse which illuminates the road,
and gives us the means of keeping the straight path to success, without once
wandering to right or left.
For this reason, if one will only take the trouble to examine oneself sincerely,
one will readily recognize that distrust of one's own power can be easily
overcome, since it springs from causes that one can oneself determine and that
can be altered for the better with very little trouble, with a view to their
ultimate suppression for good and all.
The remedy is, therefore, very closely connected with the disease and can be
easily found by any one.
As to how it should be applied, all that is called for is discernment and
will-power.
Impatience is the exact antithesis of perseverance. It always wishes to hurry
along results, and curtails them, even when it does not altogether destroy them.
If procrastination is a deplorable thing too great haste is no less so. It
raises insuperable obstacles to all perfection.
How many times does it cut short the development of something, the lack of which
spells destruction to the usefulness of the work in hand, which is thus
suddenly turned at once from its original direction and its ultimate goal.
Impatient people may be compared to the man who believes he can hurry the
appearance upon the scene of a chick by prematurely breaking the shell of the
egg that protects it. He thus reduces to nothingness something that, under its
original form or under that of the bird that emerges from it, is a source of
pleasant nourishment, but that is now of no use to anybody, thanks to his
foolish impatience.
Superficiality is the stumbling-block that destroys the efforts of so many
people of unequal will-power.
They make trial of all sorts of things, undertake countless tasks, but never fix
their minds on a single purpose.
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