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Today's reading was edited and adapted from Getting a Start, first aids to success by Nathaniel C. Fowler, published in 1915.

If you are faithful, ordinary success is yours.

If you do what you are told to do, or what you have to do, you can't become a failure.

But more than ordinary success, more than normal accomplishment, is do not wholly to faithfulness, not entirely to your interest in your work,

but to the fact that you do not only what you are told to do, and have to do,

but what you are not told to do and don't have to do.

For example, let us suppose that you are an assistant bookkeeper.

You arrive promptly at the opening hour. That is good. You are attentive to business. That is fine.

You don't neglect things. That will be appreciated. You are accurate and faithful. Your employer

gives you credit. But all this faithfulness and all this attention to duty will not bring

you more than a normal raise in salary or permit you to occupy more than an ordinary position,

lest you add to them what is not required, what your employer doesn't ask or expect you to do.

You are supposed to attend your duties. If you do that, you have kept your contract,

and you are entitled to moderate promotion,

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