hours a day) eventually find what would work, so he
succeeded more than anyone else. In fact, he succeeded
so well that he patented 1,093 inventions.
He said that genius is 1% inspiration and 99%
perspiration-and he provided the perspiration by working
18 hours a day. He worked ten years to invent the nickel-
iron-alkaline storage battery. He and his staff tested and
classified 17,000 varieties of plants before they succeeded
in extracting latex in substantial quantities from just one
of them.
Would you be willing to work 18 hours a day
and fail 17,000 times before you succeeded once? Maybe
you aren't failing often enough-or working hard enough!
Are you providing the necessary 99% perspira-
tion? There is no record of anyone being drowned in
sweat.
But you can drown your worries in sweat! As
a matter of fact, hard work is a sure cure for worry. It
cures worry in three ways:
( 1) If you work hard enough and concen-
trate exclusively on the job at hand, you will have neither
time nor thought for worry.
(2) If you work hard enough, you'll go to
bed and go to sleep, too tired to stay awake and worry.
( 3) If you work hard enough and intelligently
enough, you'll solve your problems so you won't have
anything to worry about.
Are you discouraged? When everything else
fails ... TRY HARD WORK! Idle bodies and idle minds