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WHY ARE YOU AS YOU ARE? - part 2

Many are held back by a sense of inadequacy which they ac­quire during childhood.

"Get away from that, you'll break it. You don't know anything about tools." The child is always told about the things he can't do, but is seldom given credit for the things he can do. This is the type of boy who will grow up saying: "I'm not at all handy with tools." He is not handy with them because he was told, early in life—at a time when he was most impressionable—that he knew nothing about tools, and he believed it.

Illustration after illustration could be given showing us why we are as we are.

In most cases a pattern is fixed in our minds to the effect that we are "this way" or "that way" and from then on we reflect that condition.

You are what you think you are. If your parents were wise enough to implant in your mind that you had the makings of a successful businessman, you would continue to see yourself as such and, in later years, you would reproduce in your affairs the picture you had maintained of yourself.

Have I made myself clear? Do you now understand what is meant by the statement: "You Are What You Think You Are"? Do you now know that, no matter what you have been up to now, you can be anything you want to be?

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