By the time certain problems are solved
others spring up. See that you solve them. The mind should be pacified
in its desire for new conquests.
THE SAFE RULE
as to whether or not you are fitted for new endeavors is to find to your
own true satisfaction that you can do your duties better than anyone not
in daily practice of the same kind of work. If your employer can take
hold and do a thing once a week better than you who do it a hundred
times a day, then it should still have considerable charm for you, for
your mind is strangely unfamiliar with the procedure. When a clerk stays
in one position all his life, it is certain to be from
LACK OF BOTH AMBITION AND ABILITY,
and he lacks a good deal of each. Every little while, through the
sickness, advancement, or bad judgment of others, a place just a little
more responsible than your own is left vacant. Somebody is wanted badly.
You are the man, and are put there for the interval. There is the
pivotal point. By unusual endeavor you can probably fill the place
better than it was filled by the regular occupant. Your employer,
expecting less of you, gets more, and praises you.
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