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what is about you, to so think upon what is heard, seen and felt, that you shall know the meaning it has in your life.
Concentration is the simplest thing to understand when you realize that it is thinking upon that which you do; paying attention to what is about you. It is a habit that can be acquired, but one so often neglected in childhood. It is the fault of teachers and parents that children do not grow up conscious of their power to choose and hold to the thought chosen. Wandering minds are formed from uncongenial tasks.
Study the children at any school and see how uncongenial are the tasks to many of them. It is a common thing to see children pretending or trying to study, but often glancing from the book, watching what is going on. This cultivates insincerity, pretence, hypocrisy affectation, fickleness; all of which arises from a lack of attention.
Concentration means that we shall be absorbed in the task of the hour. The biographer of Agassiz tells us that he would bring his work into the parlor of an evening when it was filled with young company and devote a portion of the time to social converse and enjoyment and at the next moment turn with complete abandon to his study, oblivious of those about him. In this he showed complete control of his mind, --- of himself. Tennyson tells a friend in a letter, that he practiced concentration before his literary labors by centering his mind upon his own name; then allowed no interruption.
To affirm that you can't concentrate is to affirm lack of faith in yourself, for the first necessity of success and
