Lesson Two - Definite Chief Aim / Your Desire

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There are three outstanding powers in the world of organized effort.

 

They are:

1. The Churches

2. The Schools / Universities

3. The Television & Radio Media

 

Imagine what might happen if these three great powers and molders of public opinion should ally themselves together for the purpose of bringing about any needed change in human conduct.

 

They could, in a single generation, so modify the present standard of business ethics that it would practically be business suicide for anyone to try to transact business under any standard except that of the Golden Rule.

 

Such an alliance could be made to produce sufficient influence to change the business, social and moral tendencies of the entire civilized world.

 

Such an alliance would have sufficient power to force upon the minds of the oncoming generations any ideals desired.

 

Power is organized effort!

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Success is based upon power!

 

This course is in complete harmony with the principles of economics and the principles of Applied Psychology. You will observe that those lessons, which depend, for their practical application upon knowledge of psychology have been supplemented with sufficient explanation of the psychological principles involved to render the lessons easily understood.

 

Before the manuscripts for this course went to the publisher they were submitted to some of the foremost bankers and business men of America that they might be examined, analyzed and criticized by the most practical type of mind.

 

One of the best known bankers in New York City returned the manuscripts with the following comment: "I hold a master's degree from Yale but I would willingly exchange all that this degree has brought me in return for what your course on the would have brought me had I been afforded the privilege of making it a part of my training while I was studying at Yale." 

 

Many others have also read the manuscripts, and one woman has named this course `master keyboard of life' because she believes that all who understand how to apply it may play a perfect symphony in their respective callings, just as a pianist may play any tune when once the key-board of the piano and the fundamentals of music have been mastered."

 

No two people on earth are exactly alike, and for this reason no two people would be expected to attain from this course the same viewpoint.

 

Each person should read the course, understand it and then appropriate from its contents whatever he or she needs to develop a well rounded personality. Before this appropriation can be properly made it will be necessary for the person to analyze himself through the use of the questionnaire that comes with the sixteenth lesson of the course for the purpose of finding out what his deficiencies may be.

 

This questionnaire should not be filled out until the student thoroughly masters the contents of the entire course, for he will then be in position to answer the questions with more accuracy and understanding of himself.

 

Through the aid of this questionnaire an experienced character analyst can take inventory of one's faculties as easily and as accurately as a merchant can inventory the goods on his shelves.

 

This course has been compiled for the purpose of helping peoplet find out what are his or her natural talents, and for the purpose of helping organize, coordinate and put into use the knowledge gained from experience.

 

For more than a hundred and twenty years of gathering, classifying and organizing the material that has gone into the course. During the past one hundred and fourteen years of analyzing more than 1,110,000 men and women and all of the vital facts gathered from these analyses have been carefully organized and woven into this course.

 

These analyses brought out many interesting facts which have helped to make this course practical and usable.

 

For example, it was discovered that ninety-five per cent of all who were analyzed were failures and but five per cent were successes. (By the term "failure" is meant that they had failed to find happiness and the ordinary necessities of life without struggle that was almost unbearable.)

 

Perhaps this is about the proportion of successes and failures that might be found if all the people of the world were accurately analyzed.

 

The struggle for a mere existence is terrific among people who have not learned how to organize and direct their natural talents while the attainment of those necessities as well as the acquiring of many of the luxuries is comparatively simple among those who have mastered the principle of organized effort.

 

One of the most startling facts brought to light by those 1,110,000 analyses was the discovery that the ninety-five per cent who were classed as failures were in that class because they had no definite chief aim in life, while the five per cent constituting the successful ones not only had purposes that were definite but they had, also, definite plans for the attainment of their purposes.

 

Another important fact disclosed by these analyses was that the ninety-five per cent constituting the failures were engaged in work which they did not like, while the five per cent constituting the successful ones were doing that which they liked best.

 

It is doubtful whether a person could be a failure while engaged in work which he liked best.

 

Another vital fact learned from the analyses was that all of the five per cent who were succeeding had formed the habit of systematic saving of money, while the ninety five per cent who were failures saved nothing.

 

This is worthy of serious thought.

 

One of the chief objectives of this course is to aid the student in performing his or her chosen work in such a manner that it will yield the greatest returns in both money and happiness.

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Lesson Two - Definite Chief Aim / Your Desire

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