and upon the completion of each attention is
concentrated on the next task.

A striking instance of this organization of
work and concentration upon a single problem
is afforded by the ``cabinet meetings'' of some
large corporations and the luncheons of groups
of powerful financiers in New York. There
are certain questions to be settled, a definite
length of time in which to settle them. In the
order of their importance they are allotted so
many minutes. At the expiration of that time
a vote is taken, the president or chairman
announces his decision, and the next matter is
attacked.

_There is no royal method of training in
concentration. It is in the main developed by
repeated acts of attention upon the subject in
hand_.

If I am anxious or need to develop the power
of concentration upon what people say, either
in conversation or in public discourse, I may
be helped by persistently and continuously
forcing myself to attend. The habit of
concentration may to a degree be thus acquired;