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11. You must then avoid nebulous notions as to your future. Get a clear and distinct idea of what you want: then work for its attainment in the best way possible. Such a life is conducted on scientific lines. Note what happens: your mental faculties begin to develop and your character changes accordingly. This is one reason why we have had so much to say about the need of interest-power. Once obtain it, and your memory, for instance, begins to improve because concentration is easier, and it is easier because you are interested in your work; you have an end in view towards which you strive daily, and the striving brings into play the whole of the mental powers necessary to the desired achievement, thus acting as a splendid gymnastic system of training. We have found that large numbers of students with poor concentration and recollection begin to benefit at once: so soon as life for them has a destiny and an aim, their faculties are awakened into an activity that is surprising to themselves and to others. Here, indeed, you have the key to the development of your intellectual gifts—those of which you are conscious, and those of which you may be ignorant. As you make an effort to reach your goal, you bring into action your imagination and your power of judgment; responsibility creates self-confidence and step by step you realise the best that is in you.

There is a vast difference between the quality of mind which says: “There’s my work—and I simply love to do it”; and that which says: “There’s my work—I’ve got to do it—no shirking—I simply must—that’s all.”

The latter is almost pure will—a “teeth set” kind of resolution that is certainly commendable; but the former is an energy of higher grade altogether; it is will reinforced by strong desire; it carries its own fuel and oils its own wheels.