Think and Grow Rich

Verily, a BURNING DESIRE has devious ways of transmuting itself into

its physical equivalent. Blair DESIRED normal hearing; now he has it! He was

born with a handicap which might easily have sent one with a less defined

DESIRE to the street with a bundle of pencils and a tin cup. That handicap now

promises to serve as the medium by which he will render useful service to many

millions of hard of hearing, also, to give him useful employment at adequate

financial compensation the remainder of his life.

The little "white lies" I planted in his mind when he was a child, by

leading him to BELIEVE his affliction would become a great asset, which he

could capitalize, has justified itself. Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong,

which BELIEF, plus BURNING DESIRE, cannot make real. These qualities are

free to everyone.

In all my experience in dealing with men and women who had personal

problems, I never handled a single case which more definitely demonstrates the

power of DESIRE. Authors sometimes make the mistake of writing of subjects of

which they have but superficial, or very elementary knowledge. It has been my

good fortune to have had the privilege of testing the soundness of the POWER

OF DESIRE, through the affliction of my own son. Perhaps it was providential

that the experience came as it did, for surely no one is better prepared than he, to

serve as an example of what happens when DESIRE is put to the test. If Mother

Nature bends to the will of desire, is it logical that mere men can defeat a burning desire?

Strange and imponderable is the power of the human mind! We do not

understand the method by which it uses every circumstance, every individual,

every physical thing within its reach, as a means of transmuting DESIRE into its

physical counterpart. Perhaps science will uncover this secret.

I planted in my son's mind the DESIRE to hear and to speak as any normal

person hears and speaks. That DESIRE has now become a reality. I planted in his

mind the DESIRE to convert his greatest handicap into his greatest asset. That

DESIRE has been realized. The modus operandi by which this astounding result

was achieved is not hard to describe. It consisted of three very definite facts; first,

I MIXED FAITH with the DESIRE for normal hearing, which I passed on to my

son. Second, I communicated my desire to him in every conceivable way

available, through persistent, continuous effort, over a period of years. Third, HE

BELIEVED ME!