Many of us who groan under life's burdens would profit from this theory and much of our misery will go away. Students studying for exams for instance could help themselves enormously if they assimilate a little at a time instead of trying to remember whole chapters, which they fail to do. I once had to do an official letter dealing comprehensively with about twenty points. The letter, I knew, would take as many pages. I set about doing it point by point and, in a short time, had the letter well and truly done.

In doing a big job, the other important thing is to get the priorities right. What is vital should be done first, what is less vital should be tackled next. If you go about this in the wrong way, you expend your energies on the little things and have none left with which to accomplish the big things. Is it possible, I ask you, to build a house without a blueprint? Yet, this is precisely what many of us do when tackling life's many problems. Naturally, we flounder.