How to Maximize Your Life with the Andrew Carnegie Dictum

The Making of the Real Man of Steel

The future looked bleak for the United States of America in 1861.

The first Union soldiers were on the train to Washington D.C.

Sitting amongst them was a 5′ 3″ Scottish-American 26 year old who had just been appointed Superintendent of the Rail and Telegraph Lines.

This was an immense responsibility for Andrew Carnegie.

“Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.” — Andrew Carnegie

Upon arriving to D.C., he immediately got to work by reopening the rail and telegraph lines that had been cut by the rebels.

And as he was freeing a trapped telegraph wire, it snapped off, slashing his cheek, and leaving behind a scar. He later joked he was “the first casualty of the war”.

“There is little…