The raw power of thought.
Think of your mind as a piece of land.
Through diligent, planned work, it can be cultivated into a
beautiful and productive garden.
Or it can lie fallow, overrun by weeds sprouting from seed carried by passing birds
and the wind.
Harvesting the bounty of your mind depends on careful
effort and preparation by you, the gardener.
This organization and its successful implementation are the
result of accurate thinking.
All plans, purposes, and achievements are created by
thought.
Your thoughts, are the only thing over which you have complete control.
You can
use them wisely or unwisely, but however you do it, your
thoughts have power.
The raw power of thought.
An unknown paperhanger used thought powerfully.
He sat moodily in a prison cell, contemplating
the fact that life offered some people power and riches, while
he was confined for a time.
His very act of thought changed his life.
The next the world heard of this man, he had written a
book in which he frankly revealed the purposes of his mind
and put the world on notice of his specific goal in life.
Some people read the book and smiled tolerantly;
others didn't even bother since they thought it was the
work of a lunatic.
A little more than a decade later this madman had half of
Europe under his heel and the other half frightened out of its
wits and fighting for dear life.
His actions were setting the world on fire, but people in America went
complacently about their business, believing that the fire
would burn itself out.
Ad0lf H!tler found the opportunity to use his power so destructively
because so many other people failed to use theirs
constructively.
Although his thinking was not accurate in the
sense that you will come to understand, it still had the
power to cause death and suffering for countless millions of
innocent people.
His thoughts were abominations, but they had force.
Applied accurate thinking is crucial to your desire for success,
but you should also recognize that exercising it is a
moral duty you owe to every other person in the world.
The focused power of accurate thought.
Accurate thinking is based on two types of reasoning.
One - induction.
This is the act of reasoning from a part to a whole, from the particular to the general,
from the individual to the universal.
It is based on experience and experimentation and draws conclusions from
them.
Two - deduction.
In this act of reasoning specific conclusions are based on general logical assumptions.
The two types of reasoning are very different, but they can
work together.
You must examine the results of your reasoning consistently and look for flaws.
You should apply this process just as stringently to
the thinking of other people.
To be an accurate thinker, you must take two important
steps.
One - separate facts from opinions, fictions, unproved hypotheses,
and hearsay.
Two - separate facts into two categories: important and unimportant.
Everyone except accurate thinkers has an overabundance of opinions, and these are usually worthless.
Many of them can be dangerous and destructive, especially
when they occur in conjunction with personal initiative.
H!tler is an obvious example.
You cannot accept an opinion offered to you unless it is
based on facts or sound hypotheses about the facts.
You should not offer any opinions except on the
same grounds.
Accurate thinkers never act on freely offered opinions with
out giving them the closest scrutiny; they permit no one to
do their thinking for them.
They obtain facts, information, and counsel from others, but they retain the
right to accept or reject it in whole or in part.
Newspapers, gossip, and rumor are unreliable sources
from which to procure facts, as the events they cover are so
changeable and these particular media are often not subject
to verification.
Remember the famous headline dewey defeats Truman?
If you had believed it, you would probably still be wondering why General MacArthur lost
his job.
Wishes are often fathers to popularly accepted facts,
since people naturally assume facts to be things that harmonize
with their wishes.
But these kinds of "facts" are so freely offered that you should remember that real
facts generally have a price tag attached—the price of the
painstaking labor needed to examine them for accuracy.
For a few days not so long ago our nation was in the grip
of the rumor that hypodermic needles were appearing in
Pepsi cans everywhere.
There were reports of incidents from more than twenty states.
On the basis of this "fact," the price of Pepsi stock dropped dramatically, and many
investors sold Pepsico shares for much less than they
had paid for them, even though the company's executives
assured the country that this kind of tampering was highly
unlikely.
Accurate thinkers recognized the improbability of such a
widespread tampering scheme and bought Pepsi stock.
Then the FDA and the FBI declared every single
report to be a hoax.
Who benefited?
The panicky sellers who had bought "high" and then prematurely sold a very solid
company or the accurate thinkers who bought the stock
at a discount price?
Techniques for evaluation.
As an accurate thinker you must scrutinize every bit of information
you encounter.
You have to realize that some things contain facts while being colored,
modified, or exaggerated, either intentionally or carelessly.
Any political campaign will demonstrate this point in glorious detail.
You should apply some tests to information you encounter.
If you read a book, for example, you should ask questions
like these:
One - is the writer a recognized authority on the subject
covered?
Two - did the writer have a motive in writing the book
other than imparting accurate information?
What is that motive?
Three - does the writer have a profit interest in the subject
covered?
Four - is the writer a person of sound judgment or a fanatic?
Five - are there easily accessible sources to check and verify
the writer's statements?
Six - do the writer's statements harmonize with common
sense and experience?
Before you accept anyone's statements as facts, you must
try to find the motive behind those statements.
The motive can be completely honorable, but you must
still be careful about accepting the statements of overzealous
people who have a habit of letting their emotions run
wild.
Honor alone does not equal accuracy.
You must rely upon your own judgment and be cautious
no matter who is trying to influence you.
If a statement does not seem reasonable or contradicts your experience,
set it aside for further examination.
When you ask others for facts or judgments, try not to disclose
the answer you expect or your motives in asking, for
people often alter their advice to fit what they assume is
their listener's desire.
This process may be innocent or duplicitous, but you should avoid it.
Instead of asking, "Do you think it would be possible to send a man to
Saturn?" or "How can I send a man to Saturn?"
ask, "What do you know about the possibility of sending a man to
Saturn?" or even better, "What do you know about space travel?"
This example may seem a little absurd, but if you substitute
"moon" for "Saturn" in the above sentences, you'll
see evidence of the power of accurate thinking.
The sources of your thought habits.
Your initial thought habits come from two sources, both of
them hereditary.
One - Physical heredity.
The nature and character of the generations that preceded you have some influence
on' your thought habits.
You may be born with a predominantly rigid or free-floating thinking process, which
many scientists now categorize as left or right-brained.
The first emphasizes details; the other, broad schemes.
Accurate thinking can modify, strengthen, and direct
both qualities, since everyone possesses each, even though
one is stronger than the other.
Second - social heredity.
Your environmental influences, education, and experience all are social stimuli.
Thinking is most influenced by these things, and that
is dangerous because it means that much of your thinking is inspired
by others.
Most people embrace a religion, ally themselves politically,
even select the car they drive not because they have given
thought to the subject but because of the influences of those
nearest them: friends, relatives, and acquaintances.
As an accurate thinker you will accept no political, religious,
or other type of thought, regardless of its source, unless
and until you have carefully analyzed it.
Then you will accept it or reject it of your own free will,
and its value to you will be much greater.
Robert Taylor, onetime governor of Tennessee, once asked
a young man why he was a confirmed Democrat.
"Because, the young man exclaimed, I live in Tennessee,
and my father and grandfather are Democrats.
That's why!"
"Well," said the governor, "wouldn't you be in a bad fix if
your father and grandfather had been horse thieves?"
I don't care what your party is, but you must select it as
you select everything, on the basis of accurate thought, not
on the habits of others.
Two big mistakes.
Two opposite qualities are very prevalent in human nature,
but each is a major roadblock to accurate thinking.
Credulousness — the habit of believing on the basis of little
or no evidence — is a major human fault, for it is fatal to accuracy
in thinking.
This fault, in both his own people and those of the world, certainly let H!tler build
his influence to such horrendous levels.
The mind of an accurate thinker is an eternal question mark.
You must challenge everyone and everything that influences it.
This does not imply a lack of faith.
In fact, it is the greatest expression of respect for the Creator since
you recognize that your thoughts are the only thing over which
you have been given complete control and you embrace this
blessing.
The small minority of accurate thinkers has always been
the hope of humanity.
For they are the pioneers in whatever they do.
They create business and industry, advance science
and education, and inspire invention and religion.
Emerson said it best:
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Then all things are at risk.
It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows
what is safe or where it will end.
There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned tomorrow; there is not literary
reputation, not the so-called eternal names of fame, that
may not be revised and condemned.
The very hopes of man, the thoughts of his heart, the religion of nations, the manners
and morals of mankind, are all at the mercy of a new generalization.
Generalization is always a new influx of the Divinity into
the mind.
Hence the thrill that attends it.
When you are an accurate thinker, you are the master, not
the slave, of your emotions.
You live among other people without giving them the powder to control your thinking.
You must always be on guard against the human tendency
initially to reject an idea because it is unsound but, by close
association with it in the form of family, friends, and
coworkers, to endure it, then to embrace it as your own, forgetting
its original source and your first evaluation of it.
Your mind will absorb any idea that it is repeatedly subjected
to, whether good or bad, right or wrong.
As an accurate thinker, you can make this trait work for
you in the sense that whatever you think today becomes what
you are tomorrow.
This is the essence of the power of a definite major purpose
and positive mental attitude.
The other common weakness in most people's thinking is
a tendency to disbelieve anything they do not understand.
When the Wright brothers announced that they had built a
machine that could fly and asked newspaper reporters to
come to Kitty Hawk and see for themselves, no one would
come.
When Guglielmo Marconi revealed that he could send
a message through the air without wires, some of his relatives
had him sent to a psychiatrist for examination.
They were convinced that he had lost his ability
to reason.
Contempt prior to examination is a trap that will limit
your opportunity, applied faith, enthusiasm, and creativity.
Do not confuse a suspension of belief in something unproved
with a certainty that anything new is impossible.
Accurate thinking is designed to help you understand
new ideas or unusual facts, not to keep you from examining
them.
Controlled habits.
I have repeatedly emphasized that your thoughts are the
only thing over which you can exert complete control.
Because your mind is so subject to the dominating
influences in your environment, you must take control over
those influences by developing beneficial mental habits.
This process is called controlled habits.
The process of controlling your habits is miraculous.
It translates the power of thought into action.
But if your habits are poor or bad, it can bring misery and failure.
Your success depends on the strength and quality of your
controlled habits.
Think of your mind as photographic film.
Film registers any object reflected on it.
It does not select the object it records, and it has no control over the focus of the
image or the length of the exposure it receives.
You, the photographer, select the image, adjust the lens, manipulate
the light and shutter speed.
The quality of the picture that is taken depends on your skill in controlling all these elements.
For your mental film, the subject of your composition is
your definite major purpose.
You frame it as you choose, illuminate it with the fire of your burning
obsession, and expose your mind to it for the time that you determine.
Few professional photographers take one shot of an important
image.
They do over the shot, adjusting all the elements of the process slightly, so that a perfect
image is finally recorded.
Similarly, instead of a single photo session, you will
work on your mental image on a daily basis, repeatedly exposing
your brain to the image of your definite major purpose.
This repeated ''photographing" of your definite major purpose
then becomes a habit, a controlled habit, since you have
consciously decided upon the nature of your actions.
The repeated reflection of the light of your burning
obsession, which springs from your emotions, will also
register this image upon your subconscious, which will
work, without your knowledge, to bring the image to fruition
by inspiring you, through your imagination, with ideas
and plans for attaining your purpose.
The manifestations of these ideas will not simply appear.
Your subconscious cannot deposit a new car in your driveway
or ten thousand dollars in your bank account.
Accurate thinking requires persistent action in applying these
ideas and all the principles of success.
This is why I have placed such strong emphasis on daily personal initiative in everything
you do, for you must also develop the controlled habit
of action.
At first action may require every bit of conscious mental
control you can exercise.
But every time you act, you strengthen that controlled habit, so that
the process becomes more ingrained.
Your enthusiasm and your applied faith will also drive you.
Both these qualities will increase as you make
action a controlled habit.
Work will no longer be drudgery; it will become as pleasurable
as eating when you are hungry.
Strange things that will give you hope and courage will begin
happening.
People will begin to cooperate with you in a friendlier
spirit and without your asking them to do so.
Unexpected opportunities for attaining your definite major purpose
will spring up around you as the result of your action.
Your imagination will become keener and more alert.
You will work longer with less fatigue.
You will see the world in terms of hope and faith because the controlled habit of
action has alerted you to their possibility.
With these changes will come improvements in every aspect of your life.
Accurate thinking depends heavily on several other principles
of success: definiteness of purpose, self-discipline.
prompt decision making, and a positive mental attitude, which will bring even more focus
to your efforts toward your definite major purpose.
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