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(c) Arrange to meet with the members of your "Master Mind" group at least
twice a week, and more often if possible, until you have jointly perfected the nec-
essary plan, or plans for the accumulation of money.

(d) Maintain PERFECT HARMONY between yourself and every member of
your "Master Mind" group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the letter,
you may expect to meet with failure. The "Master Mind" principle cannot obtain
where PERFECT HARMONY does not prevail.

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Keep in mind these facts :-

First. You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure
of success, you must have plans which are faultless.

Second. You must have the advantage of the experience, education, native abil-
ity and imagination of other minds. This is in harmony with the methods followed
by every person who has accumulated a great fortune.

No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability, and knowledge
to insure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other
people. Every plan you adopt, in your endeavor to accumulate wealth, should
be the joint creation of yourself and every other member of your "Master Mind"
group. You may originate your own plans, either in whole or in part, but SEE
THAT THOSE PLANS ARE CHECKED, AND APPROVED BY THE MEMBERS
OF YOUR "MASTER MIND" ALLIANCE.

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new
plan, if this new plan fails to work, replace it, in turn with still another, and so on,
until you find a plan which DOES WORK. Right here is the point at which the ma-
jority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of PERSISTENCE in creating
new plans to take the place of those which fail.

The most intelligent man living cannot succeed in accumulating money-nor in
any other undertaking -without plans which are practical and workable. Just keep
this fact in mind, and remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is
not permanent failure. It may only mean that your plans have not been sound.
Build other plans. Start all over again.

Thomas A. Edison "failed" ten thousand times before he perfected the incandes-
cent electric light bulb. That is-he met with temporary defeat ten thousand times,
before his efforts were crowned with success.