WILL-POWER IN BUSINESS

Many a young man feels “I am like that
one last piece in the valley. Here I am, and 1
don’t know where I go. I do not seem to fit
anywhere.”
For years, as a young man, I felt like that.
I didn’t fit anywhere. But I held fast to the
belief that there must be a place for me somewhere
 if I could only find it.

Eventually, the larger thought came to me
that I had to make my own place—that I had
first of all to shape myself, so that I would not
be a common brick, but a worthy and welldesigned
 part of the Temple.
Self-discovery and self-development-—concentrate
 on these. What are you good for ?
That is the vital question. I don’t mean—
what are you bad for ? Too many young people
soon discover their weakness, but they don’t
discover their strength.
What possible value is in you ? That is what
you must find out. You must cut free from the
rank-and-file of the standardized automata,
and become one of the efficient few. And the
sooner you discover your value, the longer will
you live happily and possess in all its fullness
the joy of life.
The test of genuine ambition is action.
Many young men who think that they are
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