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  Speaker 1: You are listening to Think and Grow Rich, written by
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  Speaker 1: Napoleon Hill. This is an independent edition containing the original
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  Speaker 1: Chapter 10 Power of the Master Mind The Driving Force
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  Speaker 1: The Ninth Step Toward Riches Power is essential for success
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  Speaker 1: in the accumulation of money. Plans are inert and useless,
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  Speaker 1: without sufficient power to translate them into action. This chapter
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  Speaker 1: will describe the method by which an individual may attain
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  Speaker 1: and apply power. Power may be defined as organized and
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  Speaker 1: intelligently directed knowledge. Power, as the term is here used,
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  Speaker 1: refers to organized effort sufficient to enable an individual to
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  Speaker 1: transmute desire into its monetary equivalent. Organized effort is produced
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  Speaker 1: through the coordination of effort of two or more people
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  Speaker 1: who work toward a definite end in a spirit of harmony.
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  Speaker 1: Power is required for the accumulation of money, Power is
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  Speaker 1: necessary for the retention of money after it has been accumulated.
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  Speaker 1: Let us ascertain how power may be acquired. If power
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  Speaker 1: is organized knowledge, let us examine the sources of knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: Infinite intelligence. This source of knowledge may be contacted through
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  Speaker 1: the procedure described in another chapter with the aid of
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  Speaker 1: creative imagination. Accumulated experience. The accumulated experience of man, or
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  Speaker 1: that portion of it which has been organized and recorded,
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  Speaker 1: may be found in any well-equipped public library. An important
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  Speaker 1: part of this accumulated experience is taught in public schools
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  Speaker 1: and colleges, where it has been classified and organized. Experiment
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  Speaker 1: and Research In the field of science, and in practically
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  Speaker 1: every other walk of life, men are gathering, classifying, and
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  Speaker 1: organizing new facts daily. This is the source to which
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  Speaker 1: one must turn when knowledge is not available through accumulated experience. Here, too,
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  Speaker 1: the creative imagination must often be used. Knowledge may be
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  Speaker 1: acquired from any of the foregoing sources. It may be
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  Speaker 1: converted into power by organizing it into definite plans and
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  Speaker 1: by expressing those plans in terms of action. Examination of
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  Speaker 1: the three major sources of knowledge will readily disclose the
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  Speaker 1: difficulty an individual would have, if he depended upon his
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  Speaker 1: efforts alone, in assembling knowledge and expressing it through definite
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  Speaker 1: plans in terms of action. If his plans are comprehensive,
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  Speaker 1: and if they contemplate large proportions, he must, generally, induce
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  Speaker 1: others to cooperate with him before he can inject into
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  Speaker 1: them the necessary element of power. Gaining Power Through the
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  Speaker 1: Mastermind The mastermind may be defined as coordination of knowledge
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  Speaker 1: and effort in a spirit of harmony between two or
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  Speaker 1: more people for the attainment of a definite purpose. No
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  Speaker 1: individual may have great power without availing himself of the mastermind.
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  Speaker 1: In a preceding chapter, instructions were given for the creation
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  Speaker 1: of plans for the purpose of translating desire into its
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  Speaker 1: monetary equivalent. If you carry out these instructions with persistence
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  Speaker 1: and intelligence and use discrimination in the selection of your
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  Speaker 1: mastermind group, your objective will have been halfway reached even
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  Speaker 1: before you begin to recognize it. So you may better
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  Speaker 1: understand the intangible potentialities of power available to you through
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  Speaker 1: a properly chosen mastermind group. We will here explain the
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  Speaker 1: two characteristics of the mastermind principle, one of which is
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  Speaker 1: economic in nature and the other, psychic. The economic feature
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  Speaker 1: is obvious. Economic advantages may be created by any person
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  Speaker 1: who surrounds himself with the advice, counsel, and personal cooperation
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  Speaker 1: of a group of men who are willing to lend
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  Speaker 1: him wholehearted aid in a spirit of perfect harmony. This
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  Speaker 1: form of cooperative alliance has been the basis of nearly
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  Speaker 1: every great fortune. Your understanding of this great truth may
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  Speaker 1: definitely determine your financial status. The psychic phase of the
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  Speaker 1: mastermind principle is much more abstract, much more difficult to comprehend,
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  Speaker 1: because it has reference to the spiritual forces with which
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  Speaker 1: the human race, as a whole, is not well acquainted.
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  Speaker 1: You may catch a significant suggestion from this statement. No
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  Speaker 1: two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible,
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  Speaker 1: intangible force, which may be likened to a third mind.
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  Speaker 1: Keep in mind the fact that there are only two
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  Speaker 1: known elements in the whole universe, energy and matter. It
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  Speaker 1: is a well-known fact that matter may be broken down
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  Speaker 1: into units of molecules, atoms and electrons. There are units
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  Speaker 1: of matter which may be isolated, separated and analyzed. Likewise,
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  Speaker 1: there are units of energy. The human mind is a
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  Speaker 1: form of energy, a part of it being spiritual in nature.
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  Speaker 1: When the minds of two people are coordinated in a
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  Speaker 1: spirit of harmony, the spiritual units of energy of each
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  Speaker 1: mind form an affinity which constitutes the psychic phase of
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  Speaker 1: the mastermind. The mastermind principle, or rather the economic feature
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  Speaker 1: of it, was first called to my attention by Andrew
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  Speaker 1: Carnegie over 25 years ago. Discovery of this principle was
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  Speaker 1: responsible for the choice of my life's work. Mr. Carnegie's
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  Speaker 1: mastermind group consisted of a staff of approximately 50 men,
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  Speaker 1: with whom he surrounded himself for the definite purpose of
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  Speaker 1: manufacturing and marketing steel. He attributed his entire fortune to
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  Speaker 1: the power he accumulated through this mastermind. Analyze the record
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  Speaker 1: of any man who has accumulated a great fortune, and
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  Speaker 1: many of those who have accumulated modest fortunes, and you
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  Speaker 1: will find that they have either consciously or unconsciously employed
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  Speaker 1: the mastermind principle. Great power can be accumulated through no
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  Speaker 1: other principle. Energy is nature's universal set of building blocks,
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  Speaker 1: out of which she constructs every material thing in the universe,
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  Speaker 1: including man, and every form of animal and vegetable life.
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  Speaker 1: Through a process which only nature completely understands, she translates
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  Speaker 1: energy into matter. Nature's building blocks are available to man
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  Speaker 1: in the energy involved in thinking, Man's brain may be
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  Speaker 1: compared to an electric battery. It absorbs energy from the ether,
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  Speaker 1: which permeates every atom of matter and fills the entire universe.
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  Speaker 1: It is a well-known fact that a group of electric
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  Speaker 1: batteries will provide more energy than a single battery. It
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  Speaker 1: is also a well-known fact that an individual battery will
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  Speaker 1: provide energy in proportion to the number and capacity of
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  Speaker 1: the cells it contains. The brain functions in a similar fashion.
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  Speaker 1: This accounts for the fact that some brains are more
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  Speaker 1: efficient than others, and leads to this significant statement. A
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  Speaker 1: group of brains coordinated, or connected, in a spirit of harmony,
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  Speaker 1: will provide more thought energy than a single brain, just
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  Speaker 1: as a group of electric batteries will provide more energy
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  Speaker 1: than a single battery. Through this metaphor, it becomes immediately
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  Speaker 1: obvious that the mastermind principle holds the secret of the
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  Speaker 1: power wielded by men who surround themselves with other men
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  Speaker 1: of brains. There follows now another statement which will lead
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  Speaker 1: still nearer to an understanding of the psychic phase of
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  Speaker 1: the mastermind principle. When a group of individual brains are
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  Speaker 1: coordinated and function in harmony, the increased energy created through
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  Speaker 1: that alliance becomes available to every individual brain in the group.
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  Speaker 1: It is a well-known fact that Henry Ford began his
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  Speaker 1: business career under the handicap of poverty, illiteracy, and ignorance.
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  Speaker 1: It is an equally well-known fact that that within the
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  Speaker 1: inconceivably short period of 10 years, Mr. Ford mastered these
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  Speaker 1: three handicaps, and that within 25 years, he made himself
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  Speaker 1: one of the richest men in America. Connect with this fact,
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  Speaker 1: the additional knowledge that Mr. Ford's most rapid strides became
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  Speaker 1: noticeable from the time he became a personal friend of
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  Speaker 1: Thomas A. Edison, and you will begin to understand what
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  Speaker 1: the influence of one mind upon another can accomplish. Go
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  Speaker 1: a step farther. and consider the fact that Mr. Ford's
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  Speaker 1: most outstanding achievements began from the time that he formed
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  Speaker 1: the acquaintances of Harvey Firestone, John Burroughs, and Luther Burbank,
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  Speaker 1: each a man of great brain capacity, and you will
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  Speaker 1: have further evidence that power may be produced through friendly
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  Speaker 1: alliance of minds. There is little, if any, doubt that
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  Speaker 1: Henry Ford is one of the best informed men in
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  Speaker 1: the business and industrial world. The question of his wealth
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  Speaker 1: needs no discussion. Analyze Mr. Ford's intimate personal friends, some
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  Speaker 1: of whom have already been mentioned, and you will be
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  Speaker 1: prepared to understand the following statement. Men take on the
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  Speaker 1: nature and the habits and the power of thought of
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  Speaker 1: those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy
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  Speaker 1: and harmony. Henry Ford whipped poverty, illiteracy, and ignorance by
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  Speaker 1: allying himself with great minds, whose vibrations of thought he
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  Speaker 1: absorbed into his own mind. Through his association with Edison, Burbank, Burroughs,
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  Speaker 1: and Firestone, Mr. Ford added to his own brainpower the
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  Speaker 1: sum and substance of the intelligence, experience, knowledge, and and
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  Speaker 1: spiritual forces of these four men. Moreover, he appropriated and
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  Speaker 1: made use of the mastermind principle through the methods of
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  Speaker 1: procedure described in this book. This principle is available to you.
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  Speaker 1: We have already mentioned Mahatma Gandhi. Perhaps the majority of
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  Speaker 1: those who have heard of Gandhi look upon him as
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  Speaker 1: merely an eccentric little man who goes around without formal
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  Speaker 1: wearing apparel and makes trouble for the British government. In reality,
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  Speaker 1: Gandhi is not eccentric, but he is the most powerful
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  Speaker 1: man now living, estimated by the number of his followers
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  Speaker 1: and their faith in their leader. Moreover, he is probably
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  Speaker 1: the most powerful man who has ever lived. His power
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  Speaker 1: is passive, but it is real. Let us study the
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  Speaker 1: method by which he attained his stupendous power. It may
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  Speaker 1: be explained in a few words. He came by power
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  Speaker 1: through inducing over 200 million people to coordinate, with mind
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  Speaker 1: and body, in a spirit of harmony, for a definite purpose.
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  Speaker 1: In brief, Gandhi has accomplished a miracle. For it is
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  Speaker 1: a miracle when 200 million people can be induced, not forced,
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  Speaker 1: to cooperate in a spirit of harmony for a limitless time.
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  Speaker 1: If you doubt that this is a miracle, try to
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  Speaker 1: induce any two people to cooperate in a spirit of
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  Speaker 1: harmony for any length of time. Every man who manages
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  Speaker 1: a business knows what a difficult matter it is to
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  Speaker 1: get employees to work together in a spirit even remotely
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  Speaker 1: resembling harmony. The list of the chief sources from which
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  Speaker 1: power may be attained is, as you have seen, headed
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  Speaker 1: by infinite intelligence. When two or more people coordinate in
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  Speaker 1: a spirit of harmony and work toward a definite objective,
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  Speaker 1: they place themselves in position, through that alliance, to absorb
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  Speaker 1: power directly from the great universal storehouse of infinite intelligence.
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  Speaker 1: This is the greatest of all sources of power. It
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  Speaker 1: is the source to which the genius turns. It is
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  Speaker 1: the source to which every great leader turns, whether he
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  Speaker 1: may be conscious of the fact or not. The other
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  Speaker 1: two major sources from which the knowledge necessary for the
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  Speaker 1: accumulation of power may be obtained are no more reliable
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  Speaker 1: than the five senses of man, The senses are not
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  Speaker 1: always reliable. Infinite intelligence does not err. In subsequent chapters,
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  Speaker 1: the methods by which infinite intelligence may be most readily
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  Speaker 1: contacted will be adequately described. This is not a course
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  Speaker 1: on religion. No fundamental principle described in this book should
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  Speaker 1: be interpreted as being intended to interfere either directly or
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  Speaker 1: indirectly with any man's religious habits. This book has been confined, exclusively,
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  Speaker 1: to instructing the reader how to transmute the definite purpose
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  Speaker 1: of desire for money into its monetary equivalent. Read, think,
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  Speaker 1: and meditate as you read. Soon, the entire subject will unfold,
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  Speaker 1: and you will see it in perspective. You are now
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  Speaker 1: seeing the detail of the individual chapters. Money is as
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  Speaker 1: shy and elusive as the old-time maiden. It must be
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  Speaker 1: wooed and won by methods not unlike those used by
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  Speaker 1: a determined lover in pursuit of the girl of his choice. And,
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  Speaker 1: coincidental as it is, the power used in the wooing
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  Speaker 1: of money is not greatly different from that used in
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  Speaker 1: wooing a maiden. That power, when successfully used in the
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  Speaker 1: pursuit of money, must be mixed with faith. It must
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  Speaker 1: be mixed with desire. It must be mixed with persistence.
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  Speaker 1: It must be applied through a plan. and that plan
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  Speaker 1: must be set into action. When money comes in quantities
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  Speaker 1: known as the big money, it flows to the one
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  Speaker 1: who accumulates it as easily as water flows downhill. There
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  Speaker 1: exists a great unseen stream of power, which may be
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  Speaker 1: compared to a river, except that one side flows in
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  Speaker 1: one direction, carrying all who get into that side of
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  Speaker 1: the stream onward and upward to wealth, and the other
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  Speaker 1: side flows in the opposite direction, carrying all who are
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  Speaker 1: unfortunate enough to get into it, and not able to
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  Speaker 1: extricate themselves from it, downward to misery and poverty. Every
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  Speaker 1: man who has accumulated a great fortune has recognized the
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  Speaker 1: existence of this stream of life. It consists of one's
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  Speaker 1: thinking process. The positive emotions of thought form the side
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  Speaker 1: of the stream which carries one to fortune. The negative
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  Speaker 1: emotions form the side which carries one down to poverty.
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  Speaker 1: This carries a thought of stupendous importance to the person
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  Speaker 1: who is following this book with the object of accumulating
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  Speaker 1: a fortune. If you are in the side of the
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  Speaker 1: stream of power which leads to poverty, this may serve
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  Speaker 1: as an oar by which you may propel yourself over
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  Speaker 1: into the other side of the stream. It can serve
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  Speaker 1: you only through application and use. Merely reading and passing
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  Speaker 1: judgment on it, either one way or another, will in
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  Speaker 1: no way benefit you. Some people undergo the experience of
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  Speaker 1: alternating between the positive and negative sides of the stream,
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  Speaker 1: being at times on the positive side and at times
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  Speaker 1: on the negative side. The Wall Street crash of 29
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  Speaker 1: swept millions of people from the positive to the negative
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  Speaker 1: side of the stream. These millions are struggling, some of
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  Speaker 1: them in desperation and fear, to get back to the
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  Speaker 1: positive side of the stream. This book was written especially
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  Speaker 1: for those millions. Poverty and riches often change places. The
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  Speaker 1: crash taught the world this truth, although the world will
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  Speaker 1: not long remember the lesson. Poverty may, and generally does,
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  Speaker 1: voluntarily take the place of riches. When riches take the
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  Speaker 1: place of poverty, the change is usually brought about through
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  Speaker 1: well-conceived and carefully executed plans. Poverty needs no plan. It
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  Speaker 1: needs no one to aid it, because it is bold
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  Speaker 1: and ruthless. Riches are shy and timid. They have to
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  Speaker 1: be attracted. Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do,
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  Speaker 1: but only a few know that a definite plan plus
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  Speaker 1: a burning desire for wealth are the only dependable means
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  Speaker 1: of accumulating wealth. You have been listening to Think and
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