Success
Begin by reading The Science of Power, by Benjamin Kidd,
and you will have broken the strangle hold of most of your Six Basic
Fears.
Follow this by reading Emerson's essay on Compensation. Then
select some good book on auto-suggestion (self-suggestion) and
inform yourself on the principle through which your beliefs of today
become the realities of tomorrow.
Mind In the Making, by Robinson, will give you a good start toward
understanding your own mind.
Through the principle of social heredity the IGNORANCE and SUPERSTITION of the dark ages have been passed on to you. But, you are living in a modern age. On every hand you may see evidence that every EFFECT has a natural CAUSE. Begin, now, to study effects by their causes and soon you will emancipate your mind from the burden of the Six Basic Fears.
Begin by studying men who have accumulated great wealth, and find out the CAUSE of their achievements. Henry Ford is a good subject to start with. Within the short period of twenty-five years he has whipped POVERTY and made himself the most powerful man on earth.
There was no luck or chance or accident back of his achievement. It grew out of his careful observation of certain principles, which are as available to you as they were to him. Henry Ford is not bound down by the Six Basic Fears; make no mistake about this.
If you feel that you are too far away from Ford to study him
accurately, then begin by selecting two people whom you know close
at hand; one representing your idea of FAILURE and the other
corresponding to your idea of SUCCESS.
Find out what made one a failure and the other a success. Get the real FACTS. In the process of gathering these facts you will have taught yourself a great lesson on CAUSE and EFFECT. Nothing ever just "happens." Everything, from the lowest animal form that creeps on the earth or swims in the seas, on up to man, is the EFFECT of Nature's evolutionary process.
Evolution is "orderly change." No "miracles" are connected with this orderly change. Not only do the physical shapes and colors of animals undergo slow, orderly change from one generation to another, but the mind of man is also undergoing constant change.
Herein lies your hope for improvement. You have the power to force your mind through a process of rather quick change. In a single month of properly directed self-suggestion you may place your foot upon the neck of every one of your Six Basic Fears. In twelve months of persistent effort you may drive the entire herd into the corner where it will never again do you any serious injury.