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habit forming by concentration as soon
as the will has got the upper hand of
the brain as soon as it can say to the
brain with a fair certainty of being a
paid do this thinking along these lines
and continue to do so without wondering
until I give you leave to stop then it's
the time arrived when the perfecting of
the human-machine may be undertaken in a
large and comprehensive spirit as a city
council undertakes the purification and
reconstruction of a city the tremendous
possibilities of an obedient brain will
be perceived immediately begin to
reflect upon what we mean by our
character now a person's character is
and can be nothing else but the total
result of his habits of thought a person
is benevolent because he habitually
thinks benevolently a person is idle
because his thoughts dwell habitually on
the instant pleasures of idleness it is
true that everybody is born with certain
predispositions and that these
predispositions influence very strongly
the early formation of habits of thought
but the fact remains that the character
is built by long-continued habits of
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thought if the mature edifice of
character usually shows in an
exaggerated form the peculiarities of
the original predisposition this merely
indicates a probability that the slow
erection of the edifice has proceeded at
haphazard and that reason has not
presided over it a child may be born
with a tendency to bent shoulders if
nothing is done if on the contrary he
becomes a clock and whores gymnastics
his shoulders will develop an excessive
roundness entirely through habit or as
if his will
guided by his reason had compelled the
formation of a corrective physical habit
his shoulders might have been if not
quite straight nearly so does the
physical habit the same with a mental
habit the more closely we examine the
development of original predispositions
the more clearly we shall see that this
development is not inevitable it's not a
process which works itself out
independently according to mysterious
useless laws which we cannot understand
for instance the effect of an original
predisposition may be destroyed by an
accidental shock a young man with an
inherited tendency to alcohol may
develop into a stern teetotaler through
the shock caused by seeing his drunken
father strike his mother
whereas if his father had chance to be
affectionate in drink the Sun might have
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ended in the gutter no ruthless law here
it is notoriously also that nature's are
sometimes completely changed in their
development by chance momentary contact
with nature's stronger than themselves
from that day I resolved etc you know
the phrase often the resolve is not kept
but often it is kept a spark was
inflamed the will the burning will has
terranize dover the brain new habits
have been formed and the result looks
just like a miracle
now if these great transformations can
be brought about by accident cannot
similar transformations be brought about
by a reasonable design at any rate if
one starts to bring them about one
starts with the assurance that
transformations are not impossible since
they have occurred one starts also in
the full knowledge of the influence of
habit on life take any one of your own
habits mental or physical you will be
able to recall the time when that habit
did not exist or if it did exist it was
scarcely perceptible and you will
discover that nearly all your habits
have been formed unconsciously by Daily
repetitions which bore no relation to a
general plan
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and which you practiced not noticing you
will be compelled to admit that your
character as it is today is a structure
that has been built almost without the
aid of an architect equality piggledy
anyhow but occasionally the architect
did step in and design something here
and there among your habits you'll find
one to consciously and of deliberate
purpose initiated and persevered with
dr. selling to some happy influence what
is the difference between that conscious
habit and the unconscious habits
none whatever as regards its effect on
the sum of your character
it may be the strongest of all your
habits the only quality that
differentiates it from the others is
that it has a definite object most
likely a good object and that it wholly
or partially fulfills that object there
is not a man who reads these lines but
has in this detail or that proved in
himself that the will forcing the brain
to repeat the same action again and
again can modify the shape of his
character as a sculptor modifies the
shape of damp clay but if a grown man's
character is developing from day to day
as it is if nine-tenths of the
development is due to unconscious action
and one-tenth to conscious action and if
the 110th conscious is the most
satisfactory part of the total result
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why in the name of common sense
henceforward should not nine-tenths
instead of one-tenth be due to conscious
action
what is there to prevent this agreeable
consummation there is nothing whatever
to prevent it except insubordination on
the part of the brain and
insubordination of the brain can be
cured as I have previously shown
when I cement unhappy and inefficient in
the craft of living from sheer crass in
attention to their own development and I
see Miss shapen men building up
businesses and empires and never
stopping to build up themselves when I
see three men expending precisely the
same energy on teaching a dog to walk on
its hind legs as would brighten the
whole color of their own lives
I feel as if I wanted to give up the
ghost so ridiculous said fat to assist
the spectacle seem but of course I do
not give up the ghost the paroxysm
passes and I really must cry out can't
you see you what you're missing
can't you see that you're missing the
most interesting thing on earth far more
interesting than businesses empires and
dogs
doesn't it strike you how clumsy and
short-sighted you are working always
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with an inferior machine when you might
have a smooth gliding perfection doesn't
it strike you how badly you're treating
yourself
yes and you confirmed grumbler you make
the evening meal hideous with complaints
against destiny for it is you i will
single out
are you aware what people are saying
about you behind your back
they are saying that you render yourself
and your family miserable by the habit
which is grown on you of always
grumbling surely it isn't as bad as that
you protest
yes it is just as bad as that you say
the fact is i know it's absurd to
grumble but I'm like that I've tried to
stop it and like can't
how have you tried to stop it well I've
made up my mind several times to fight
against it but I never succeed
this is strictly between ourselves I
don't usually admit time at grumbler
considering that you grumble for about
an hour and a half every day of your
life
it was sanguine My dear sir to expect to
cure such a habit by means of a solitary
intention formed at intervals in the
brain and then forgotten
no you must do more than that if you
"law of attraction" habit forming by concentration creating new thought habits
will daily fix your brain firmly if the
half an hour on the truth you know it to
be a truth that grumbling is absurd and
futile your brain will henceforward
begin to form a habit in that direction
it will begin to be molded to the idea
that grumbling is absurd and futile in
odd moments when it isn't thinking of
anything in particular it will suddenly
remember that grumbling is absurd futile
when you sit down to the meal and open
your mouth to say i can't think what my
ass of a partner means by it will
remember that grumbling is absurd and
futile and will alter the arrangement of
your throat teeth and tongue so that
you'll say what fine weather we're
having
in brief it will remember involuntarily
buy a new habit all who look into their
experience will admit that the failure
to replace old habits buy new ones is
due to the fact that at the critical
moment the brain does not remember it's
simply forget the practice of
concentration will cure that all depends
on regular concentration this crumbling
is an instance though chosen not quite yet has it
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