Fruits of Leisure: Or, Essays Written in the Intervals of Business

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Fruits of Leisure: Or, Essays Written in the Intervals of Business
Arthur Helps
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To make this less diflScult, you must use method, and practise economy in thinking. You must not weary yourself by considering the same thing in the same way ; just oscillating over it, as it were ; seldom making much progress, and not marking the little that you have made. You must not lose your attention in reveries about the subject ; but .must bring.yourself to the point by such ques- tions as these: What has been done? What is the state of the case at present ? What can be done next? What ...ought to be done? Express in writing the answers to your questions. Use the pen; there is no magic in it, but it prevents the mind from stag- ger, ng about. It forces you to methodize your thoughts. It enables you to survey the matter with a less tired eye. Whereas, in thinking vaguely, you not only lose time, but you require a familiarity with the husk of the subject which is absolutely injuri- ous. Your apprehension becomes dull ; you estab- d by Google ON THE TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS. 85 lish associations of ideas which occur again and again to distract your attention ; and you become more tired than if you had really been employed in mastering the subject.

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