Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

The remark proposes focused labor as a form of mental triage: attention is finite, and immersing it in a concrete task can crowd out rumination. Feather’s emphasis is pragmatic rather than therapeutic—he is not claiming work solves underlying problems, but that purposeful concentration can temporarily reduce the felt weight of “other troubles.” The aphorism also reflects a work-ethic worldview in which competence and diligence provide psychological ballast. Read critically, it can be taken as advice for resilience (use structure and effort to regain control) or as a cautionary example of how work may become avoidance if it replaces, rather than complements, confronting personal difficulties.