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The Miracle of Right Thought

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The Divinity of Desire - Success and Happiness Are for You - Working for One Thing and Expecting Something Else - Expect Great Things of Yourself - Self-Encouragement by Self-Suggestion - The Crime of the "Blues" - Change the Thought, Change the Man - The Paralysis of Fear - One With the Divine - Getting in Tune - The Great Within - A New Way of Bringing Up Children - Training for Longevity - As a Man Thinketh - Mental Self-Thought Poisoning - Contents -

It is easy to distinguish between a man whose life has been devoted to intellectual pursuits and one whose life has been spent in dealing in merchandise. Distinct faculties are developed and strengthened in the trader, such as sagacity, foresight, shrewdness, and the ability to systematize. Leadership calls out and often enormously develops certain faculties, such as initiative, the ability to use and control others, knowledge of human nature, and penetration.

An ambition-arousing environment is a powerful influence in modifying brain development, and the cultivation of ambition itself is a good illustration of the power of suggestion. A boy born and reared in a sparsely settled portion of the country may have great natural ability in a particular line, but, not coming in contact with the right stimulus to arouse his individual ambition, may never develop the power to do the greatest thing possible to him. On the other hand, if he should go to the city and get into an ambition-arousing atmosphere, his whole brain structure might be very materially changed.

How often we see examples of this sudden change in college men, especially those who have come from the country! The attrition of brain with brain, the contagion of ambition,

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