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nctt \\ork, he will become dissatisfied 



: his work \\ill deteriorate. His interest can- 



be mar < conditions. You 



know that no nun \\ill continue upon a piece of 



huh seems useless. 



Frank (iilbrcth, one day, tried an experiment 

 some unskilled workers in a brickyard. 

 told some of them to move a pile of bricks from 

 iu- \ .ml to rht- other I hey went 

 iui it with as much rapidity and skill 

 as they possessed. Then he told them to m 

 the bricks back. They started to do it but their 

 interest slackened, they slowed up, and finally most 

 of them quit ami said they did not want to be 

 made fools of like that. 



Some of the \\ork which you arc doing in your 

 little group looks rather useless to the man who 

 is doin# N Me does not see that it amounts to 

 1 i doesn't know that the little mi- 

 crometer bar which he is finishing so carcfulK 

 \\ill be used to determine the accuracy of thou- 



vhere inaccuracy would mean 

 the \\orkinan ma\ not know that the 

 ts which he is driving in the hull of the vessel 

 .ire really important in the operation of that > 

 .uul that the question of whether the vessel will 

 nh the storm \ \\eather at sea or not 

 ractcr of the work in 

 ivcting. 



hard, in making a bunch of bolts 

 marie scre\\ machines or rearranging the track 

 the main line of a railroad, to remember : 



