by Napoleon Hill
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The pearls sold well. The Goldstones were well on their way to becoming wealthy. A few years later, they decided they wanted to establish their own pearl farm, which they did with the help of Mr. Kitamura. Once again they "saw" opportunity where others had seen nothing. Experience proved that the mortality rate of oysters into which a foreign object had been artificially inserted was over 50 per cent.
"How can we eliminate this great loss?" they asked themselves.
After much study, the Goldstones began to use on the oysters the methods employed in hospital rooms. The outside shells were scraped and scrubbed to reduce the danger of infection to the oyster. The "surgeon" used a liquid anesthetic that relaxed the oyster. Then he slipped a tiny clam pellet into each oyster as a nucleus for the pearl that was to be formed. The incision was
made with a sterilized scalpel. Then the oyster was put into a cage, and the cage was dropped back into the water. Every four months cages were raised and the oysters were given a physical checkup. Through these techniques, 90 per cent of the oysters lived and developed pearls, and the Goldstones went on to acquire a fabulous fortune.
Time and again we see how men and women have become successful after they learned to apply mental perception. The ability to see is much more than the physical process of taking light rays through the retina of the eye. It is the skill of interpreting what you see and applying that interpretation to your life and the lives of others.
Learning to see will bring to you opportunities that you never dreamed existed. However, there is more to success through PMA than learning mental perception. You must also learn to act on what you learn. Action is important because through action you get things done.
Don't wait any longer. Read The Secret of Getting Things Done in the next chapter and move another rung up the ladder of success through PMA.
PILOT NO. 7 Thoughts to Steer By
1. Learn to see! Seeing is a learned process. Nine-tenths of seeing takes place in the brain.
2. Four fingers instead of five: this was the symbol whereby George Campbell, the blind boy, could catch and hold a full and happy life. How can you use this symbol?
3. Seeing is learned through association. George Campbell's first sight of his mother became meaningful to him only when he recognized her voice.
4. Is it time to have your mental vision checked? when it is distorted, you can grope around in a haze of false concepts, bumping and hurting yourself and others unnecessarily. Does your mental vision become clearer year by year?
5. Take a look ? & good look ? and recognize what you see. There may be Acres of Diamonds in your own backyard!
6. Don't be nearsighted ? look to the future. Cypress Gardens became a reality because Richard Pope saw it as a definite future objective.
7. See another person's abilities, capacities, and viewpoint. You may be overlooking a genius. The story of Thomas Edison is a good example.
8. Do you see how you can relate and assimilate the principles of Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude into your own life?
9. Learn from nature. How? Ask yourself some questions, as Isaac Newton did. If you don't know the answers, get expert advice.
10. Convert what you see into reality by action. Mikimoto converted a theory into a fortune in pearls. Goldstone recognized, related and applied the principles and methods used in hospitals to save human lives as being applicable to saving the lives of oysters in producing cultured pearls.
OPEN YOUR MIND
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LEARN TO SEE
CHAPTER 8
The Secret of Getting Things Done
In this chapter you will find the secret of getting things done. You will also receive a self-motivator so powerful that it will subconsciously force you to desirable action, for it is in reality a self-starter. Yet you can use it at will. When you do, you overcome procrastination and inertia.
If you do the things you don't want to do, or if you don't do the things that you do want to do, then this chapter is for you.
Those who achieve greatness employ this secret of getting things done. Take, for example, Maryknoll Father James Keller. Father Keller had been developing an idea for quite some time. He hoped to motivate "little people to do big things by encouraging each to reach beyond his or her own little circle to the outside world." The Biblical command, "go ye forth into all the world" was to him the symbol of an idea whereby the mission he had in mind could be fulfilled.
