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How to Evolve New ideas "Take a subject and discuss it with anybody and everybody. Read all that is written in books about that subject; and then you will find firstly that you have obtained a large number of new ideas; secondly as a result of its activity your mind is beginning to germinate ideas of its own."
(Anonymous)
A CONTEST is a struggle for victory in which we win a prize, and it would seem that there is nothing done in this world, no work or chore of any kind, nothing which we do from day to day, but has some definite end in view and that end, in a general way and for lack of a better term, can be called a PRIZE. There is a prize for every effort and there never was an effort but had its prize.
Almost every paper or magazine across the world has a sporting page or two, and on these pages you will find news and stories of contests of all kinds. Golf, tennis, baseball, football, cricket, wrestling, and an endless number of out-of-door sports have their sponsorers and millions of followers and in each case there is someone who is looked up to as the best - the 'WINNER.'
EXPERIENCE
"Repetition brings skill." It is by doing a thing over and over again that we learn to do it well. It takes skill to do skilled work, and skill is the result of doing a thing many times, until it becomes familiar. A man does a thing over and over for ten years, and we say "He has experience, he is an experienced workman." Men build ships, manufacture cloth, construct roads, railroads, sell goods and services and they do many more things all their lives, and command good pay or income because they do good work. Experience has become one of the necessaries to success in any calling, and it is a matter of speculation how an inexperienced man will come out in a new undertaking. The aggregate knowledge that has been acquired by personal observation and actual trials, is called experience. The kind of experience we are looking for is of a specific character and confined to some one branch of business, trade or industry, and there is no department of trade today that does not offer sufficient scope to monopolize all a man's time and attention. The more difficult any business or profession is to learn, the fewer will be the competitors to invade it, and herein lies our opportunity for its mastery.
There are many phases to every line of business or profession, and that knowledge which comes by actual trials enables us to foresee and compensate for the ups and downs of trade; we are able to control circumstances, and thereby the safety of our enterprise.
This the inexperienced cannot do, and failure of any business or profession often results before the requisite knowledge and experience is obtained.
SIGNIFICANCE OF "SUFFERING"
“Men learn to do their noblest, think their deepest and enjoy their richest by a preparation of suffering. "Suffering" - is doubtless as divinely appointed a joy, while it is much more influential as discipline of character. Suffering shows us ourselves, how weak we are, how frail our hold on life is, how dependent we are on others, and how necessary it is to live circumspectly in order to escape future miseries.
Suffering prepares the way for more perfect joy. It makes us more appreciative. Little pleasures seem greater. Any pleasure at all is a boon to us. We learn our lesson and become more adept students."
from "Sunshine All the Year."
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