INTRODUCTION TO THE MASTER MIND IIStwo or more minds ever met without creating, out of that contact,
another mind, but this creation is not always a Master Mind.
There may be, and altogether too often there is, developed out of
the meeting of two or more minds a negative power which is just the
opposite of a Master Mind.
There are certain minds which, as has been stated throughout this
lesson, cannot be made to blend in a spirit of harmony. This principle
has its analogy in chemistry.
For example, the chemical formula H 20 (meaning the combining
of two atoms of hydrogen with one atom of oxygen) changes these two
elements into water. But one atom of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen
will not produce water; moreover, they cannot be made to associate
themselves in harmony!
There are many known elements which, when combined, are
immediately transformed from harmless into deadly poisonous sub-
stances. Stated differently, many well-known poisonous elements are
neutralized and rendered harmless when combined with certain other
elements.
Just as the combining of certain elements changes their entire nature,
the combining of certain minds changes the nature of those minds, pro-
ducing either a certain degree of what has been called a Master Mind,
or its opposite which is highly destructive.
Some minds will not be harmonized and cannot be blended into
a Master Mind-a fact that all leaders will do well to remember. It
is the leader's responsibility to group his or her subordinates so that
those who have been placed at the most strategic points in the organ-
ization are those whose minds can and will be blended in a spirit of
friendliness and harmony.
Ability to bring people together is the chief outstanding quality
of Leadership. In Lesson Two of this course you will discover that this
ability was the main source of both the power and fortune accumulated
by the late Andrew Carnegie.