Mental Efficiency

"Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women"

Discover How to Unlock the True Power of Your Mind and Achieve a Level of Success That You Never Thought Possible!

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MENTAL EFFICIENCY

THE APPEAL

IF there is any virtue in advertisements --and a journalist should be the last person to say that there is not--the American nation is rapidly reaching a state of physical efficiency of which the world has probably not seen the like since Sparta.

In all the American newspapers and all the American monthlies are innumerable illustrated announcements of physical-culture specialists," who guarantee to make all the organs of the body perform their duties with the mighty precision of a 60 h.p. motor-car that never breaks down.

I saw a book the other day written by one of these specialists, to show how perfect health could be attained by devoting a quarter of an hour a day to certain exercises.

The advertisements multiply and increase in size. They cost a great deal of money. Therefore they must bring in a great deal of business.

Therefore vast numbers of people must be worried about the non-efficiency of their bodies, and on the way to achieve efficiency.

In our more modest British fashion, we have the same phenomenon in England. And it is growing. Our muscles are growing also.

Surprise a man in his bedroom of a morning, and you will find him lying on his back on the floor, or standing on his head, or whirling clubs, in pursuit of physical efficiency.

I remember that once I " went in" for physical efficiency myself. I, too, lay on the floor, my delicate epidermis separated from the carpet by only the thinnest of garments, and I contorted myself according to the fifteen diagrams of a large chart (believed to be the magna charta of physical efficiency) daily after shaving.

In three weeks my collars would not meet round my prize-fighter's neck; my hosier reaped immense profits, and I came to the conclusion that I had carried physical efficiency quite far enough.

A strange thing -- was it not? -- that I never had the idea of devoting a quarter of an hour a day after shaving to the pursuit of mental efficiency.

"Mental Efficiency - And Other Hints to Men and Women.."

These days it seems like everyone is working out – and while improving your health and physical efficiency is certainly important – it begs the question: “What about mental efficiency?”

Why aren’t most people exercising their minds and trying to get the most that they can out of their mental potential?

Think of the tremendous impact this could have on your life!