COOPERATION 803Now, the question might well be asked: "If I can impress my
subconscious mind with the desire to arise at a specified time and it
will awaken me at that time, why do I not form the habit of impressing
it with other and more important desires?"
If you will ask yourself this question, and insist on an answer,
you will find yourself on the pathway that leads to the secret door to
knowledge, as described in Lesson Eleven.
THE POWER OF
COOPERATIVE ORGANIZED EFFORT
We will now take up the subject of Cooperation between those who
unite, or group themselves together, for the purpose of attaining a
given end.
In Lesson Two I referred to this sort of Cooperation as organized
ifJort. This course touches on some phase of Cooperation in practically
every lesson. This was inevitable because one object of the course
is to help the student develop power, and power is developed only
through organized ifJort.
The three most important factors that enter into the process of
organizing effort are Concentration, Cooperation, and coordination.
We are living in an age of cooperative ifJort. Nearly all success-
ful businesses are conducted under some form of Cooperation. The
same is true in the field of industry and finance, as well as in the
professional field.
Doctors and lawyers have their alliances for mutual aid and
protection in the form of bar associations and medical associations.
Bankers have both local and national associations for their mutual
aid and advancement. Retail merchants have their associations for
the same purpose. Automobile owners have grouped themselves into
dubs and associations. Printers have their associations and plumbers
have theirs.