DO" to as far as available imagination can see. The degree
will depend on the stage of development.
But that does not affect the premise that there
are preliminary essentials which must precede every edu-
cational and training process:
First, you must be INSPIRED with real, be-
lievable facts which convince you that you can and will
succeed. That is the ignition which ignites the fuel in the
rocket to propel your guided missile to success. No igni-
tion-and you stay on the ground. There are too many
lives which are grounded because nobody provided the
ignition of inspiration.
Next, you must be MOTIVATED to find out
what you need to know and do in order to assure your
success. Motivation converts inspiration into activity. But
activity, no matter how nobly inspired, can be good or bad.
It does no good to heroically mount your steed and then
frantically ride off in the wrong direction. So your inspira-
tion must be sufficiently motivated for you to be willing
to pay the price of your success in terms of a predetermined
goal. There must be a goal and it must be predetermined
-otherwise you will be accumulating facts for which you
will have no future use.
Whatever you want from life has a price tag.
Not just in money. Money usually is involved, but that is
unimportant, since anybody can get whatever amount of
money he needs. It is the other things included in the
price of success which you must be willing to pay-the
personal sacrifices in time, effort, study, planning, finding
out, going, doing. Formal education too often fails to