LIFE BEGINS AT FORTY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 142, 17 June 1936, Page 6

LIFE BEGINS AT FORTY

r r , HE study of most biographies indicates that success, as apart from fortuitous happenings, seldom comes to a man until he has lived more than forty years of his life. There used to be a saying that a man was “too old at forty.” Now the opinion is current that “life begins at forty.” It is only after a man has come to maturity of mind that he is capable of being selective in his efforts. He economises his energies and consequently he accomplishes more. His actual output in work is generally greater because he is more of a specialist. He has discovered the great secret, limitations are only a narrowing of channel but not an impediment to the flow within that channel. Limitation makes for specialisation. Limitation very frequently —not always of course, but more frequently than is generally supposed—is one of the greatest of blessings, because it results in a calanising of effort. The man of forty should not take the count, the man whom the world and Parliament rejects should not acknowledge defeat. And if he will not accept defeat he can never be defeated.