When others played, he worked, fully convinced that his play-time would come later.

Where others shirked, he assumed.

Where others lagged, he accelerated his pace.

Where others were indifferent to things around them, he observed and put away the results for possible use later.

He did not make of himself a pack-horse; what he undertook he did from interest in it, and that made it a pleasure to him when to others it was a burden.