How Your Mental Capital is Dissipated
Another thing you need is poise . One trouble with you now is thatyou waste your priceless powers in useless anxiety.
The minute business falls off you begin to worry. You fritter yourmental energies in fretting until you are incapable of real thought,and being unable to think your way out you get excited.
Remember it is all just a game, and you are in it only for the fun ofthe thing. You will never win out if you persist in tearing your hair.
Before he crossed the Rubicon Julius Cæsar was staggered at thegreatness of the undertaking before him. The more he reflected andtook counsel of his friends, the greater loomed the difficulties ofthe attempt and the more appalling the calamities his passage of thatriver would bring upon the Roman world. But when at last with the cry, "The die is cast!" he plunged into the river, there was an end for himto mental dissension, a freedom to plan and execute, an expansion ofcourage and power.
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