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Show I;! t oo GONE FOREVER. A Bportlng writer, discussing a fa mous tennis player in a run of bad luck, says: "The trouble with him Is that he can't forget the last ball " In a nutshell, that explains a good manv failures When people begin living over the past to the extent that they harp on It, it means that they are just about "through." A lot of fellows, even at the youthful youth-ful age of 35 or 40, begin Talking about wliat they did 5. 10, 15 or 20 years ago They boast about old-time accomplishments accomplish-ments -ahlfVi uaimllv Ic a aiirp siirn that subconsciously they realize they are through accomplishing. Falling back on one'B past self-admiration self-admiration about a previous record Is a violation of the modern code that rates a man by what he is doing today, iiot yesterday. Attention and fortune ajo to the man who la making a new record The old record Is ancient hls-lor hls-lor . being forgotten. -The opposite of this law is workin:; ' case of the tennis player. He if. playing In bad form because he is . . g ...u much on the last ball-past ball-past mistakes. It doesn't matter how many mis takes you have made, if you can convince con-vince the world that you have profited profit-ed by them. I I Experience is invaluable, yet it io 1 1 nothing more than a chain of mls- H takes. J Normally, a man is fortunate jn having made mistakes, for tile agony is over and he Is not apt to make them again This is today, not yesterday The past is gone. Forget it A third type of misdirected energy is observed iu the person who has succeeded In forgetting the past, but is also inclined to forget the present Living too much In the f.jture, be bungle ihe present. You see this frequently In a me-1 chanic, clerk or salesman who dreams o much about what he will do when i he is boss that he falls into a state of elf hypnotism and alights today's task. All of us, seeking success, are ladder lad-der climbers. We have our attention on a man higher up, on the rung of the ladder where we want to be. There is such a thing as being so intent in-tent on him that we forgot the fellow m below who is after us, who wants the rung we are standing on now Some-! Some-! tfmea he gets It, passes ub. Thon we come out of our daze and curse 'luck " The future is created today |