Law of Success (21st Century Edition)

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ACCURATE THINKING 713

stand behind the desire and push it; beyond this point the desire will
stand behind you and push you on to achievement.
Persistence may be compared to the dropping of water that finally
wears away the hardest stone. When the final chapter of your life has
been completed, it will be found that your persistence, or lack of this
sterling quality, played an important part in either your success or
your failure.


I watched the Tunney-Dempsey fight in Chicago. I also studied the
psychology leading up to and surrounding their previous bout. Two
things helped Tunney defeat Dempsey, on both occasions, despite
Dempsey being the stronger of the two men and, as many believe,
the better fighter. And the two things that spelled Dempsey's doom
were, first, his own lack of Self-Confidence-the fear that Tunney
might defeat him-and second, Tunney's complete self-reliance and
his belief that he could whip Dempsey.
Tunney stepped into the ring with his chin in the air, an atmos-
phere of self-assurance and certainty written in his every movement.
Dempsey walked in with a sort of uncertain stride, eyeing Tunney in a
manner that plainly queried, "I wonder what you'll do to me?"
Dempsey was whipped, in his own mind, before he entered the
ring. Press agents and propagandists had done the trick, thanks to
the superior thinking ability of his opponent, Tunney.
And so the story goes, from the lowest and the most brutal of
occupations, prize-fighting, on up to the highest and most commend-
able professions. Success is won by the person who understands how
to use their power of thought.
Throughout this course much stress has been put on the impor-
tance of environment and habit, out of which grow the stimuli that
put the wheels of the human mind into operation. Fortunate is the
person who has found how to stimulate his or her mind so that its
powers will function constructively when placed behind any strong,
deeply seated desire.

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