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.This will afford a good opportunity for commenting upon the philosophical axiom:"All possibilities exist from the moment that we admit the possibility of their existence."But we must not suppose that the authors whose books we read do not occasionallycommit the folly of seeing possibilities in something which is after all only chimerical.Theirs is the type of reasoning that emanates from the man who is familiarly known as a"failure," who has made nothing of his career, who has attempted all sorts of schemeswithout any real value, or who has not had the energy to persevere in a sane andreasonable course.Such men are always glad to rave at the success of others.They seek to minimize it, ifthey can not deny it altogether, and even succeed at times in doubting it themselves.They decry enterprises of real merit, and laud only those which they declare to be ofwonderful worth.They make a show of despising really useful efforts in order to employthemselves upon visionary schemes that can never bear fruit.One thing alone does not arouse the contempt of these curiously warped people.Themoney that is well earned is never despised by anybody.It is always the indication and the reward of true success.We are no longer in the days when it was the accepted thing to find genius languishing ona bed in the hospital.Talent, in our times, if it is not always rewarded in proportion to its merits, is neverthelessseldom despised.Inventors get a certain amount of money, greater or less, as the case may be, in exchangefor their creations.Artists can sell their work if they have the gift of pleasing the public.Musicians play their airs in return for much good currency.In fact, all those whose talent is recognized can live very comfortably by their gifts or theirindustry.There are, it will be said, many persons, who, in spite of the fact that they possess superior 53qualities, still remain in obscurity, while those who are by no means their equals strutabout in the pride and glory of their good fortune.But why do they remain in obscurity?Because they are modest, some one will answer.In that case we shall find it quite impossible to weep over their unsuccess.Modesty shouldbe no part of the equipment of the man who desires to succeed.When one is thoroughly persuaded with the worth of one's own work one doesn't wasteone's time in lamenting.Those who do this are the timid, who are quite as incapable of making any seriousresolutions as they are of accomplishing any act of decision.They lack faith in themselves.they are doubtful of their own ability.Very well!Then why should we believe in them?If they are so dubious as to their own merits, which they certainly ought to know prettythoroughly, why should they complain when they see us following suit?If there is one disease more contagious than another it is certainly mistrust of oneself.It necessarily involves the entertaining of doubts, since these form themselves so readily,on the subject of the capacity of other people.From this cause one is only half inclined to believe the man who speaks with assurance ofhis knowledge or of his skill, when one remembers how much every human being isdisposed to judge himself with a partial eye.How can one have any confidence in the man who, at the outset, acts or speaks in such afashion as not to conceal from our view the very low esteem that his talents have inspiredin his own breast?It is impossible, when confronted with a too pronounced humility, not to conclude that itis founded upon incurable ineptitude.It is true that ambition often assumes the external appearance of modesty so as not toantagonize any one.One clenches one's fists to prevent the arrival in the front rank of a man whose avowedsuperiority might be considered as a menace to those who are themselves aspiring to sucha place, but one allows without fear the passage of the man who, by his attitude ofself-effacement, does not seem to have anything in him that may cause him to aspire tobecome a rival. 54There are well-known instances of men who have used this method to arrive at fortune.Not only have they been permitted to insinuate themselves among the following of thismuch revered goddess, but often enough among the crowd of her servitors there havebeen found people who have aided them to gain a place in their ranks in the hope, by thismeans, of blocking the way for a more dangerous rival.It is only then that they have raised their heads and shown the world of what they werecapable [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.This will afford a good opportunity for commenting upon the philosophical axiom:"All possibilities exist from the moment that we admit the possibility of their existence."But we must not suppose that the authors whose books we read do not occasionallycommit the folly of seeing possibilities in something which is after all only chimerical.Theirs is the type of reasoning that emanates from the man who is familiarly known as a"failure," who has made nothing of his career, who has attempted all sorts of schemeswithout any real value, or who has not had the energy to persevere in a sane andreasonable course.Such men are always glad to rave at the success of others.They seek to minimize it, ifthey can not deny it altogether, and even succeed at times in doubting it themselves.They decry enterprises of real merit, and laud only those which they declare to be ofwonderful worth.They make a show of despising really useful efforts in order to employthemselves upon visionary schemes that can never bear fruit.One thing alone does not arouse the contempt of these curiously warped people.Themoney that is well earned is never despised by anybody.It is always the indication and the reward of true success.We are no longer in the days when it was the accepted thing to find genius languishing ona bed in the hospital.Talent, in our times, if it is not always rewarded in proportion to its merits, is neverthelessseldom despised.Inventors get a certain amount of money, greater or less, as the case may be, in exchangefor their creations.Artists can sell their work if they have the gift of pleasing the public.Musicians play their airs in return for much good currency.In fact, all those whose talent is recognized can live very comfortably by their gifts or theirindustry.There are, it will be said, many persons, who, in spite of the fact that they possess superior 53qualities, still remain in obscurity, while those who are by no means their equals strutabout in the pride and glory of their good fortune.But why do they remain in obscurity?Because they are modest, some one will answer.In that case we shall find it quite impossible to weep over their unsuccess.Modesty shouldbe no part of the equipment of the man who desires to succeed.When one is thoroughly persuaded with the worth of one's own work one doesn't wasteone's time in lamenting.Those who do this are the timid, who are quite as incapable of making any seriousresolutions as they are of accomplishing any act of decision.They lack faith in themselves.they are doubtful of their own ability.Very well!Then why should we believe in them?If they are so dubious as to their own merits, which they certainly ought to know prettythoroughly, why should they complain when they see us following suit?If there is one disease more contagious than another it is certainly mistrust of oneself.It necessarily involves the entertaining of doubts, since these form themselves so readily,on the subject of the capacity of other people.From this cause one is only half inclined to believe the man who speaks with assurance ofhis knowledge or of his skill, when one remembers how much every human being isdisposed to judge himself with a partial eye.How can one have any confidence in the man who, at the outset, acts or speaks in such afashion as not to conceal from our view the very low esteem that his talents have inspiredin his own breast?It is impossible, when confronted with a too pronounced humility, not to conclude that itis founded upon incurable ineptitude.It is true that ambition often assumes the external appearance of modesty so as not toantagonize any one.One clenches one's fists to prevent the arrival in the front rank of a man whose avowedsuperiority might be considered as a menace to those who are themselves aspiring to sucha place, but one allows without fear the passage of the man who, by his attitude ofself-effacement, does not seem to have anything in him that may cause him to aspire tobecome a rival. 54There are well-known instances of men who have used this method to arrive at fortune.Not only have they been permitted to insinuate themselves among the following of thismuch revered goddess, but often enough among the crowd of her servitors there havebeen found people who have aided them to gain a place in their ranks in the hope, by thismeans, of blocking the way for a more dangerous rival.It is only then that they have raised their heads and shown the world of what they werecapable [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]