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Today's reading was edited and adapted from Making the Grade by C.V. Mosby, published in 1917.

Resistance gives way to superior force, continually applied upon a given point.

This is a law of physics and also a law of life. Concentrate your

energy and you burn away through opposition. One of the chief difficulties in life

consists of not being able to concentrate. Few people when they work throw their entire energy into the task.

Go into a store or a factory and take note of the employees. You will find most of them working

in a lackadaisical manner, doing just enough to keep up a semblance of being busy, and thereby escape a reprimand

from the manager. The clock is watched assiduously, and as soon as closing time arrives,

nothing can keep them one minute longer than is necessary to put their stocks in order and get away.

Lack of concentration is one of the great contributing factors among those who cannot make the

grade. Concentration is no easy task. It demands the most carefully trained will and a powerful determination. Thinking must

always precede the act. If we act with concentration, we must think in the same way.

Let it be said here that well-trained concentrated thinking comes only after

much effort has been expended upon it. To think correctly is hard work. If you do not believe me,

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