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8. In entering for a Pelman Course you doubtless have two objects: you desire—

(1) to overcome any deficiencies from which you may suffer;

(2) to develop any additional ability for new work that lies before you.

Perhaps you are a student and feel that your task can be made more easy. It can; and we can show you the method. It may be that you are engaged in some business or industrial enterprise, and you realise that success in any conspicuous degree can only come to one who has a thorough mastery of every detail involved. We will supply you with the means by which you can acquire such a mastery of detail.

Possibly you have no fixed occupation, but desire to increase your general aptitude as a citizen and a member of the social community. We will lead you to the fulfilment of your desire. Just as an athlete develops his muscles by training, so can all the powers of the mind be expanded and strengthened by skilfully-devised exercises. An illustration of this is seen in the case of the Bank Clerk. When a young man enters the service of a Bank, he very likely is able to add columns of figures with no more than average speed and accuracy, but after a few years of practice he can add a long column of pounds, shillings and pence more quickly than he would formerly have added the pence alone. But a well-planned scheme of mental training has a value greater than that of providing mere exercises; it cuts out an immense amount of superfluous effort. A man with no knowledge of mechanics and no acquaintance with motor bicycles or motor cars might be able to construct a motor bicycle if supplied with all the component parts, but a trained engineer would accomplish the task in a small fraction of the same time and with infinitely less toil. We introduce into our every-day life much unnecessary complexity and delay owing to our ignorance of the laws which govern thought and memory. Facility brings efficiency, and efficiency brings the satisfaction of ambition.