LESSON 17.
ENERGY!
Energy is that mysterious something that has the power to do work—to get results.
We can’t see energy, we can’t smell or taste it, we can’t hear it, nor is it anything we can feel.But its results—we perceive them everywhere.
The heat in our homes and bodies is the result of energy. The light that guides us by night and that brightens our daytime is the result of energy. The electricity that turns motors and carries our messages is another name for that indescribable something—energy.
But one of the greatest sources of energy is the human mind. Each one of us has within himself tremendous possibilities. We can work with our hands, or we can work with our heads. The choice rests largely with ourselves. And the difference between a hundred thousand dollar a year man and a ditch digger is from the ears up. Can one indiscriminately convert himself between these extremes? I don’t know. It is claimed, however, that the average person uses only one-tenth of his inherent mental ability. And I am satisfied that the curse of the age is mental laziness. How far the ditch digger can rise, I believe depends wholly on how great an effort and sacrifice he is willing to make for his advancement.
Every properly guided effort for advancement does, eventually bear fruit. Move right up front in the forerank of Musicians! You can, for your effort is properly guided.
Exercises 4, 7, 27, and 28 comprise this week’s work.