HOW TO MAKE WORK INTERESTING.
"The real problem wo still do riot touch — the problem of how to make the necessary work of the world interesting and satisfying to the people who do it. We want a National Committee for the abolition of Boredom. Work need not bore. My work does not bore me, and I know dozens of people whose happiest hours arc their working hours. Most sorts of work are attractive to Bomo type of person: most people are interested by fresh work; nearly everyone will work for an enthusiasm, for religion, for patriotism. It is an enormous help to know the end of your work, to percoive that it is useful and necessary and an honourable thing to do. . . "The problem is no more insoluble than tho problem of mechanical flight was insoluble, and I am as certain now that it will be Bolved as 1 was in 1890 that men. would By."-~ H. G Wells, in the Daily
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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 134, 3 December 1910, Page 13
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