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10. But for success in our Course, there is one other qualification even more important than confidence, and that is WORK: work in the sense of effort. Reiterated effort is the price we have to pay for progress. It is not dull or disagreeable or exacting work, it is not work which will occupy your exclusive attention for long periods of time, but it is work. The payment of a fee, the possession of certain printed words and phrases and paragraphs, even the mere reading of our instructions, will not suffice to produce a perfect memory and a state of mental efficiency. The directions with which we shall furnish you, and the exercises we shall set you, will occupy but little of your time, and you will find them of genuine and increasing interest, but if you do not follow the directions and work through the exercises, you cannot reasonably complain if at the end of Lesson XII, you have not made the progress you anticipated. The Pelman System is not a speculation in which you can invest your fee and then after a lapse of time and with no effort whatsoever on your part, simply pick up a big percentage on your outlay. Rather, it is like a business. You invest your money in it to the amount of the fee for the Course, then you interest yourself in the work, and at the end you find yourself with a permanent source of income returning a regular profit of several thousand times your expenditure. Is it not worth doing? If you have even for a moment the shadow of a doubt as to the answer you ought to return to such a question, it can only be because you have not fully realised the value of mental efficiency.