A DEFINITE CHIEF AIM 177When you come to select your Definite Chief Aim, just keep in
mind that you cannot aim too high.
Also keep in mind the never-varying truth that you'll get nowhere
if you start nowhere. If your aim in life is vague, your achievements
will also be vague, and, it might well be added, very meager. Know what
you want, when you want it, why you want it, and how you intend to get it.
This is known to teachers and students of psychology as the WWWH
formula-"what, when, why, and how."
Read this lesson four times, at intervals of one week apart.
You will see much in the lesson the fourth time you read it that
you did not see the first time.
Your success in mastering this course and in making it bring you
success will depend very largely, if not entirely, on how well you follow
all the instructions it contains.
Do not set up your own rules of study. Follow those laid down in
the course; they are the result of years of thought and experimentation.
If you wish to experiment, wait until you have mastered this course
in the manner suggested. You will then be in a position to experiment
more safely. For the present, content yourself by being the student. You
will, let us hope, become the teacher as well as the student, after you
have followed the course until you have mastered it.
If you follow the instructions laid down in this course, you can no
more fail than water can run uphill above the level of its source.
APPLYING THE PRINCIPLES OF THIS LESSON
Through the introductory lesson you became familiar with the Master
Mind principle of psychology.
You are now ready to begin using this principle as a means of trans-
forming your Definite Chief Aim into reality. It must have occurred
to you that one might as well have no Definite Chief Aim unless one
also has a very definite and practical plan for turning that aim into a