THOUGHTS ON BUSINESS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 162, 30 June 1908, Page 3

THOUGHTS ON BUSINESS.

A clear head is often better than a cabinet of advisers when it comes to getting the right idea. Work lhat mav take hours when your thought i< con-fnv.-rl and muddled may often lie accomplished in a few moments when you i are clear headed. Kvery schoolboy ha* Ind tiie expericrice of working late at night over an arithmelic problem, giving it up unlived and arising next moraine to (hid thai tin' solution conies to him withal apparent effort. Many perplexing Inline-.; problems have been solved in a similar manner. They are perplexing because we are confused in thought. When th* j mind is being forced to consider a proposition while it i* 'laden with other things, it loses something of it> normal clearness, just as clear water is !e»s transparent when in commotion. Bui. when the strain is removed the mind naturally yxnsp* the probl.'in and solves it.

'I o gain a clear head ii is often <ary to put out of the mind an nceumulalinn of unfinished business. Even the simple aet "f taking all the current papers on your desk and putting them <>»•* by one in a drawer with the though!. " That can wail till to-morrow." will often leave the mind free to take hold of an important problem and give il that clear-headed attention it may require.