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Are you easily impressed by other people's business or professional titles, college
degrees, or wealth?

Are you easily influenced by what other people think or say of you?

Do you cater to people because of their social or financial status?

Whom do you believe to be the greatest person living?

In what respect is this person superior to yourself?

How much time have you devoted to studying and answering these questions? (At
least one day is necessary for the analysis and the answering of the entire list.)

If you have answered all these questions truthfully, you know more about your-
self than the majority of people. Study the questions carefully, come back to them
once each week for several months, and be astounded at the amount of additional
knowledge of great value to yourself, you will have gained by the simple method of
answering the questions truthfully. If you are not certain concerning the answers
to some of the questions, seek the counsel of those who know you well, especially
those who have no motive in flattering you, and see yourself through their eyes.
The experience will be astonishing.

You have ABSOLUTE CONTROL over but one thing, and that is your thoughts.
This is the most significant and inspiring of all facts known to man! It reflects
man's Divine nature. This Divine prerogative is the sole means by which you may
control your own destiny. If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure

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you will control nothing else.

If you must be careless with your possessions, let it be in connection with mate-
rial things. Your mind is your spiritual estate! Protect and use it with the care to
which Divine Royalty is entitled.

You were given a WILL-POWER for this purpose.

Unfortunately, there is no legal protection against those who, either by design
or ignorance, poison the minds of others by negative suggestion. This form of
destruction should be punishable by heavy legal penalties, because it may and
often does destroy one's chances of acquiring material things which are protected
by law. Men with negative minds tried to convince Thomas A. Edison that he