by Napoleon Hill
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12. Learn to separate "facts" from fiction. Then learn the difference between important facts and un-important facts.
DIRECT YOUR THOUGHTS WITH PMA
TO CONTROL YOUR EMOTIONS
AND TO ORDAIN YOUR DESTINY
CHAPTER 4 Will You Dare to Explore the Powers of Your Mind?
"You are a mind with a body!"
Because you are a mind, you possess mystical powers ? powers known and unknown. Dare to explore the power of your mind! Why explore them?
When you make the discoveries that are awaiting you, they can bring you: (1) physical, mental and moral health, happiness, and wealth; (2) success in your chosen field of endeavor; and even (3) a means to affect, use, control, a harmonize with powers known and unknown.
And dare to investigate all non-physical forces lying outside the realm of known physical processes ? forces which you can use when you learn how to apply them. And this will not be so difficult for you ? no more difficult than turning on a television set for the first time.
For a little child can tune into his favorite television program. Now, when he does, he neither knows the construction of the broadcasting station or his receiving set nor the technology involved. But that's all right. For at the child needs to know is how to turn the right knob or push the right button.
You will see in this chapter how you can turn the right knob or push the right button to get what you want from the most effective electrical machine ever conceived. Although this particular machine is the sublime handiwork of Divine Power ? you own it. How is it made? Well, among other things, it is comprised of over 80 trillion electrical cells. Naturally, it has
many component parts. And each part is in itself an electrical mechanism.
And one part is an electrical marvel. Yet it weighs only fifty ounces. Its mechanism consists of over 10 billion cells, which generate, receive, record, and transmit energy.
What is this wonderful machine that you own? Your body. You are and will be the same you even though you lose an arm, an eye, or other parts of your body.
And the electrical marvel? Your brain and your nervous system. It is the mechanism through which your body is controlled and through which your mind functions.
And your mind: it, too, has parts. One is known as the conscious, and the other the subconscious. They synchronize. They work together. Scientists have learned a great deal about the conscious mind. Yet it has been less than a hundred years since we began to explore the vast unknown territory of the subconscious ? even though primitive man has deliberately used the mystical powers of the subconscious from the beginning of man's history, and even today the Aborigines of Australia and other primitive peoples do so to a very great extent.
Let's start exploring now!
Day by day in every way, I'm getting richer and richer! Let's begin by accompanying Bill McCall of Sydney, Australia on a journey from failure and defeat to success and achievement.
It was at the age of 19 that Bill started a business of his own ? hides and skins. He failed. At the age of 21, he ran for Federal Congress. And again, he failed. Now it seems that instead of
crushing him, these and other defeats motivated this young Australian to develop inspirational dissatisfaction.
So he began searching for rules of success.
You see, Bill McCall wanted to become rich, and he thought he could find rules for acquiring wealth in inspirational books. Therefore, while checking the inspirational book section of the library, Bill became intrigued by the title Think and Grow Rich. He borrowed the book and began to read. He read it once, and then he read it again. And even though he read it the third time, Bill McCall was unable to understand exactly how he could apply the principles whereby some of the richest men in the world acquired their wealth. He told us:
"I was reading Think and Grow Rich for the fourth time while walking leisurely along a business street in Sydney. And then it happened! It happened suddenly. I stopped in front of a meat market window and glanced up. And in that very fraction of a second I had a flash of inspiration." He smiled as he continued:
"I exclaimed aloud, That's it! I've got it!' I was startled at my emotional outburst. So was a lady who was passing by. She stopped and looked at me in amazement. I hurried home with my new discovery." He continued seriously:
"You see, I was reading Chapter Four entitled Auto-suggestion. The subheading was The Medium for Influencing the Subconscious Mind.
