if you can keep up this enthusiasm and excitement day after day,

　　in ten years you will own every sock in the United States. ”

　　I thought of another salesman,

　　who displays no interest either in you or in the goods he is paid to sell.

　　Yet possibly that very clerk who is now so apathetic(冷漠的)began his career with hope and enthusiasm like the one we mentioned. The daily grind was too much for him;

　　the novelty wore off;

　　his only pleasures were found outside of working hours.

　　He became a mechanical,

　　not inspired salesman.

　　After being mechanical,

　　he became incompetent;

　　then he saw younger clerks who had more enthusiasm in their work,

　　promoted over him.

　　He became sour.

　　That was the last stage.

　　His usefulness was over.

　　I have observed this decline in the lives of so many men in so many occupations that I have come to the conclusion that the surest road to failure is to do things mechanically.

　　作者通过对比两个对待工作不同态度的销售员(一个对自己的工作充满激情, 一个只是在机械地干自己应干的事情)表达了自己的观点：毫无激情机械地做事肯定会导致失败。 5. How did the writer go to the sock shop according to the passage?

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