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Overjoyed because of the Changed World which had been brought to him through
his hearing device, he rushed to the telephone, called his mother, and heard her
voice perfectly. The next day he plainly heard the voices of his professors in class,
for the first time in his life! Previously he could hear them only when they shout-
ed, at short range. He heard the radio. He heard the talking pictures. For the first
time in his life, he could converse freely with other people, without the necessity
of their having to speak loudly. Truly, he had come into possession of a Changed
World. We had refused to accept Nature's error, and, by PERSISTENT DESIRE,
we had induced Nature to correct that error, through the only practical means
available.

DESIRE had commenced to pay dividends, but the victory was not yet complete.
The boy still had to find a definite and practical way to convert his handicap into
an equivalent asset.

Hardly realizing the significance of what had already been accomplished, but in-
toxicated with the joy of his newly discovered world of sound, he wrote a letter to
the manufacturer of the hearing-aid, enthusiastically describing his experience.
Something in his letter; something, perhaps which was not written on the lines,
but back of them; caused the company to invite him to New York. When be ar-
rived, he was escorted through the factory, and while talking with the Chief Engi-
neer, telling him about his changed world, a hunch, an idea, or an inspiration-call
it what you wish-flashed into his mind. It was this impulse of thought which con-
verted his affliction into an asset, destined to pay dividends in both money and
happiness to thousands for all time to come.

The sum and substance of that impulse of thought was this: It occurred to him
that he might be of help to the millions of deafened people who go through life
without the benefit of hearing devices, if he could find a way to tell them the story
of his Changed World.

Then and there, he reached a decision to devote the remainder of his life to ren-
dering useful service to the hard of hearing.

For an entire month, he carried on an intensive research, during which he an-
alyzed the entire marketing system of the manufacturer of the hearing device,
and created ways and means of communicating with the hard of hearing all over
the world for the purpose of sharing with them his newly discovered "Changed
World." When this was done, he put in writing a two-year plan, based upon his

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findings. When he presented the plan to the company, he was instantly given a
position, for the purpose of carrying out his ambition.