ARE YOU SUCCEEDING?
Many people are -drifting about in tb« world, failing to succeed, because t-hev don’t know how to get success out of then*scire*. There are many things that binder them. Some are too diffident—they •re afraid to let themselves, go for fear of adverse criticism. Others ruin their chance* by laok of faith in their own capabilities. The first rule for success is—Study yourself. Find your weak points. Know them yourself, but don’t let others know them. Learn to concentrate. Read a column of the news, and then run over it in your mind, attempting to recall all the important points. You will be surprised first time to find how few you remember ? But after a few davs of this gentle brain exercise, you will begin to read thing* in a different and more compelling wav. Instead of letting the matter drift across your brain you will he keen 1 r attentive, not only to the broad idea, but also to details. Soon you will begin to believe in yourself, and once vou feel like fhat von will be getting snccess out of self.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17017, 16 April 1923, Page 10
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186ARE YOU SUCCEEDING? Star (Christchurch), Issue 17017, 16 April 1923, Page 10
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