CuaPTER V.

AMBITION PLUS WILL-POWER

F you are young and ambitious, you may be
J nelped on your way up by the blunt words
4+~.0f this chapter, written by a man who was
young many years ago.
Older people generally give very bad advice
to the young. Go slow, they say. Be careful.
Play safe. Plod on. Be satisfied. Don’t take
risks. And so on. All tosh.
I don’t say that. I say—thank God for the
Prince of Wales, who takes a risk every week
of his life, and sets a pace that other young
Britons ought to follow.
The first duty of life is to live—to make the
most and the best of your few years of existence.
To live the way you want to live, without
doing any harm to other people—that should
be the aim of every ambitious young man and
woman. Why not ?
How to live a 100 per cent. life, not a 20 per
cent. life—that is your problem. Some men
and some women have solved it. They are
living the life that suits their aptitudes. They
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