The Secret of Brain Energy E-Book

Frank C. Haddock

• Herausgeber: Andura Publishing
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

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The Secret of Brain Energy

Frank C. Haddock

I Saw a man at work in a quarry. He thrust the end of a crowbar under a huge rock and threw into the effort to move the obstacle his utmost strength. He had enthusiasm for fierce endeavor. Energy leaped up within him and rushed to the strain of a Hercules.

My friend, the railway builder, said to me that the greater the obstacles that confronted him, the more determined he became to overcome them.

The one instance illustrates physical energy; the other shows us psychic or mental energy. The energy of success consists of both phases, together with an unyielding mood of confidence in self, one’s effort, and the outcome. It is not merely ~ physical, for Sampson was no great success. It is not mental alone, for that may be passive. It is not simply a sense of ability, for that may exhibit in a mild and negative form.

But when a man has in him the day-after-day and year-in-and-year-out mood, “I can and I will,” controlled, restrained, used, exactly as he will, yet never surrendering, then he has it—the secret of brain energy.

1. The energy of success is a compound of two general factors: a continuance-feeling of great confidence and a sense of driving and practical ability.

2. It is not only for everyone to possess this quality, but as well to know that he has it. All persons are endowed with a measure of the quality, at least among average classes, but comparatively few seem to be conscious of its possession. One who flames out in a rage may be aware of his passion yet totally unconscious of the central energy which has thus become manifest. His consciousness in the case might be called objective. A person may be aware of intense determination to achieve some difficult task, yet give no thought to the focusing energy of his mind. He is aware of a particular fact in experience, but his self-knowledge does not necessarily embrace the inner psychic state. A measure of success worth trying for demands not only that one should possess some energy, but that • one should recognize the quality within himself, and intelligently control and use it with reference to a goal that is capable of engaging his utmost interest. These considerations suggest the present chapter.

FORCE AND ENERGY.

3. Force and energy do not represent the same thing. Modern chemistry and physics make a distinction between the facts and define differently the corresponding words. “Force is any agency which can cause a motion, arrest a motion, or change the direction of a motion, while energy expresses in motion or the capacity to become motion.”

4. “There are two kinds of energy— kinetic or moving energy, and potential or energy of position.” (Like the dynamic self and the static.)

Let us suppose a cannon, loaded and ready for discharge. The explosive behind the ball contains molecular energy—capacity for motion, for work. When the charge is fired, the explosive generates gases which are confined but seek to expand and in that effort start the ball and the cause of that start is the force of the explosion, while the moving ball represents energy capable of performing work the moment it is stopped. If the ball is projected perpendicularly into the air, it has the energy of motion—kinetic—until it ceases to mount higher, when, for a theoretical instant, it has no kinetic energy (as it will in a moment on its descent), but does at that instant of mid-air “rest” possess potential energy, the energy of position, because it may now fall to the ground from its present height and regain all the energy of motion which it had when it left the gun.

MAN A FUND OF ENERGY.

5. Now, man is a store-house of various forces capable of causing the energy of motion. Inasmuch as the forces are, broadly speaking, always discharging and inducing all sorts of motions, we may sayHhat man is himself a great unit system of stored energy. Not only does he incessantly release energy, but he also constantly stores up force essential to the required energy of life and action. Taking man as an animal alone, he is more wonderful as a force-storing and an energy-releasing machine than any mechanism his inventive genius can produce. He is exceedingly complex and he is exceedingly economical in the transformation of his fuel into energy. He”may be regarded as a self-contained ‘prime mover,’ including its furnace, its mechanism of work and energy-development, and possessing mechanism for transformation of power peculiarly and exactly adapted to its purpose.”

6. Referring a moment to the teachings of science, it is to be observed that the attractive force which the earth exerts on a body at its surface is called the force of gravity, while that which is exerted between two or more molecules of matter is termed chemical affinity. In both cases, we have, as Tyndall remarks, “working power. That power may exist in the form of motion, or it may exist in the form of force, with distance to act through.” “The former is dynamic energy (the energy of motion), the latter is potential energy (the energy of position).” So, then, the cannon ball at rest an instant in air, and the molecule of matter yielding to the pull of some other molecule, and thus capable of exerting that pull because of position, but only capable, as the ball at the highest point of its ascent is only capable, possess potential energy—that of position.

7. Thus, in the animal machine also the two forms of energy obtain. And as potential energy is capable of becoming dynamic (in motion or action), and as this is simply capacity for work, the body is seen to be capable of working very economically and to an enormous degree.

8. Having in mind the idea of such a machine as was characterized in section 6, together with differences of mental characteristics, it is evident that “for every sort of task there is to be found a kind of man specifically and peculiarly adapted to its successful accomplishment.”

9. One of the most important general laws of business energy, then, demands the adjustment of the right kind of man to the right kind of •work. In practical application of this law of common sense, the man who works under others should try to put himself where he can do the most work of the highest value; and the man who works over others should see to it that every man under him is placed in a corresponding position of greatest utility. This is the rule for machines; why not for men? The use of the law is a maker of values.

ENERGY AND HEALTH.

10. In the operation of the human machine considered as a transformer and user of energy, it is indispensable that the intake should be more. than equal, at any given time, speaking loosely, to the outgo. This is because the man must conduct the preservative and developing operations of body and self in addition to those of his work, and the former operations require energy-supplies for their own needs. If you constantly release all the normally available energy you possess, you leave for the maintenance of your personal well being no supply, and the end, sooner or later, is bankruptcy. Brain energy demands health.

With some men, and for a time, health seems to take care of itself. But health really does not take care of itself. Right financial returns mean right physical returns in advance. A surplus bank account is never so valuable as a surplus energy account. “Business suicide” would be a correct characterization of many activities in business and out of it. “Can’t help it” is only another phrasing of “Don’t care.” Many a man says, “Let her go!” meaning himself, when he would better mean “the job.” It is difficult to understand why business should make one perversely obstinate or obstinately foolish. The science of business is founded on some one’s health—that marvelous hard-pan of compacted energy.