It went on, it was sort of a brutal thing, and at the end of ths
period, it was a two-stage competition and sure enough we were in the
second stage. Now you have to start; what do you do? We reorganized
all elements, but this time, with a little bit more experience, chose
the elements in a different way (still had about 26, 28, or 30) and
proceeded: we made 100 studies of every element; we took every logical
group of elements and studied those together in a way that would not
fall below the standard that we had set. And went right on down the
procedure. And at the end of that time, before the second competition
drawings went in, we really wept, it looked so idiotically simple we
thought we'd sort of blown the whole bit. And we won the competition.
This is the secret and you can apply it.
