Acres of Diamonds: Our Every-day OpportunitiesRussell H. ConwellOmniClassics · Literature
Acres of Diamonds: Our Every-day Opportunities
Russell H. ConwellA famous lecture locates opportunity close to home and asks listeners to reconsider what useful work they have overlooked.
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About the book
Conwell's title address uses the story of a man searching far away for riches to argue that valuable opportunities may already exist within familiar surroundings. Anecdotes about enterprise and service support a message of initiative, attention to local needs, and practical action. The lecture also makes strong moral claims about wealth, inviting examination of the assumptions connecting prosperity with character and usefulness. This volume extends beyond the address to Robert Shackleton's account of Conwell's life and achievements, followed by an autobiographical reflection on lecturing. The surrounding material shows how a public message was embodied in a career of speaking, institution-building, and self-presentation. Readers therefore encounter both a persuasive performance and a historical account of the person and public work through which it circulated.
- Opportunity
- Enterprise and service
- Public persuasion
Why read it
For a celebrated motivational address presented alongside material that places its message within the speaker's public career.
Lecture with Robert Shackleton's biographical account and an autobiographical note