"How To Develop Positive Thinking, Right and Wrong Thinking & Their Results..."

It is not claimed that it always appears to be easy to change the thinking in response to one's own choice without reference to external suggestions, or, as must often be the case, in direct opposition to them; nor will one acquire in a day the power to do this every time and on the instant.

An established habit of any kind is not broken by a few feeble attempts; but persistent, faithful, determined effort will overcome the most dominant habit that ever fastened itself on a human being.

The single condition necessary to success in this mental training is that one should be enough in earnest to persist in the repetition of the effort every time the excluded thought reappears.

The ability to do this is in itself alone extremely valuable even if there were no other consideration.

Professor James well says, and none too strongly: " The faculty of bringing back the wavering attention over and over again is the very root of judgment, character, and will.

No one is composed if he have it not. An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence." The ability to do this is at the basis of success in securing control of the thinking, and also at the basis of every success in life.

The method of doing it, as we have seen, is the very perfection of simplicity and of effectiveness as well, and James is correct when he says that this is preeminently the best education.