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He'd Not Yet Begun To Fight; Aim High: John Paul Jones' focus helped the new American nation sail to victory.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)
Byline: CURT SCHLEIER
The way John Paul Jones saw it, you should do something 100% right or you shouldn't do it at all.
More than anything, he wanted to be a naval officer. As a child, he'd pretended to be admiral of a fleet of rowboats manned by his friends. He'd spent years apprenticing at sea to learn top-notch sailing skills.
But when the Continental Congress finally offered him his own ship, Jones (1747-92) turned it down.
Though he had experience, it wasn't on the kind of vessel being offered -- a 70-foot, single-masted sloop.
"He explained that he wasn't confident that he could sail the sloop, whose giant gaff rig main sail was tricky and dangerous to handle. . . . He thought he could learn more by taking a post as a No. 2 aboard a larger, square-rigged ship," biographer Evan Thomas wrote in "John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy."
In fact, self-improvement was a constant throughout Jones' life. Even after his victories at sea, when his renown spread throughout the U.S. and Europe, he continued studying ships and tactics. That focus helped him become a Revolutionary War hero and jump-start the U.S. Navy.
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