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Before, by contrast, I MAINTAINED my specialized job with automatic or externally guided routines and traditional schedules, just like most everyone else. But to CREATE and BUILD success, I now knew, required power-thinking and the mini-day schedule.
Without removing a simple, deep-rooted limitation -- the traditional schedule that designates time to tasks instead of to physical movements -- major success would have forever stayed out of reach, I realized. After making that realization, I wrote the following journal entry:
"Man's deep-rooted tendencies for nonthinking automatic or external guidance previously kept me chained to the traditional schedule that essentially provided nonthinking automatic or external guidance as I simply reacted to the business around me. Filled to my capacity using the physically disjointed traditional schedule, I could look and feel busy and important. Yet I only MAINTAINED my job for the leaders and built nothing for myself."
That weekend my brother came over. I said, "Do I have a treat for you!" I went on to tell my brother about the mini-day/power-thinking team. Then, I showed him my own schedule. Indeed, with power-thinking, my journey into money and power quickly took off. "I get more done in a week than I used to in three months," I told my brother. "But most amazingly, I'm creating brand-new money-making projects now. I can't describe to you what that feels like!"
"You don't have to," Eric said. "I'll find out. Do you realize what you're creating here? You're going to free all ordinary working people. Man, this is exciting!"
I was listening to an audio-cassette tape called The Dream Maker: William C. Durant, Founder of General Motors. The audio-cassette tape about General Motors and its founder, during one interlude, told a story about one of its most influential employees named Charles Nash. He had gone to work for William Durant before Durant founded General Motors, back in the late 1800s when Durant owned the Durant-Dort Carriage Company that built the carriages that horses pulled. Here is the story as told on that tape:
"In 1890, a 26-year-old man named Charles Nash began work in the blacksmith's department. His first job was pounding iron. Within a few days he walked into Durant's easily accessible office. 'I'm wasting time,' he said. 'You can get a power hammer there. It would cost about $35.00 and do more pounding in a day than I can do in a month!' Durant took the suggestion and Nash was moved over to working on a drill press that prepared cart braces for attachment. The next time Durant came through the shop, he stopped at Nash's machine. It looked like none of the others. Nash had rigged it with an overhead spring and a treadle that left both his hands free while working and doubled the output. Durant weighed the implications of this: 'Charlie,' he said, 'We'll get another man here. See if you can't straighten out the trimming department for me.' Promoted to the headship of that department, Nash wrestled with the problem of heavy expenditures on tacks. He found the answer in a short time. The carpenters held the tacks in their mouths while working. The cheap, roughly finished brand the company was using cut their lips and tongues and they would spit them on the floor in exasperation, and lose them. A better grade tack proved the remedy. ...So Nash went on probing, correcting, climbing up to the highest supervisory ranks."
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