Evidences of Mental Waste

In this respect you are not unique. Most people fail to use their minds to best advantage. A group of college student were examined to see how musc of their time was wasted. More than fifty percent of them wasted thirty-five hours a week. College students presumably represnt the upper intellectual layers of the population. They are supposed to spend the major part of their time mental activity. Most of them probably make a serious effort, yet according to these figures they fail to apply themselves to the maximum degree.

Their proffesors are also derelict. They may lecture in disorderly fashion. When the right word escapes them they "hem" and "eh-," using what sarcastic observer callas the "professorial hee-haw."

Business executives, also representing top-notch "brain workers," suffer from mental lapses. Ask any secretary to tell you how much time her boss spends in daydreaming; how disjointed some of this dictation; how many times he pauses for lack of words; how often he says, "strike that out," "Let's begin over again," etc.