Straight Thinking

A good many people approach an idea like a moth attracted by an arc light.  They beat their brains against it, fly around it, and eventually go on to something else, quite convinced that with so much fuss something really important must have been accomplished.  But the idea remains suspended just where it was before.  With people of this nature the simplest things become complex.  Their natural element is confusion, and where they do not find it they create it.  They forget that success consists so largely of thinking straight, of keeping one’s thoughts clamped to the subject in hand, of retaining a fine clarity of mind.  The world is hungry for men and women who can be faithful to one thought at a time.