Chapter 17 Seventeenth letter: You hold the seeds of success in your hands

Motto: I am my greatest capital! My only belief is to believe in myself! Everyone who aspires to success should realize that the seeds of success are sown around yourself. (Everybody has certain ideals which determine the direction of his endeavors and his judgments.) May 29, 1926 Dear John: Yesterday, just yesterday, I received a letter from a young man who aspires to be rich.In his letter, he begged me to answer a question: he lacks capital, how should he start a business and become rich? God, he wanted me to point his life in the right direction.But teaching people doesn't seem to be my specialty, and I can't resist his sincerity, which is painful.But I wrote back and told him that you need capital, but you need common sense more.Common sense is more important than money.

For a poor son who wants to start a business, they often worry about the lack of capital.If they fear failure again, they will hesitate, move slowly like snails, and even stop on the road to success, and never get ahead, so I reminded him in my reply letter to the young man: "The road from poverty to wealth is always smooth. The important thing is that you firmly believe that: I am my greatest capital. You have to exercise your belief and keep exploring the reasons for hesitation until belief replaces doubt. You know, You can't achieve what you don't believe in yourself; belief is what carries you forward."

Everyone who aspires to success should realize that the seeds of success are sown around himself.As long as he realizes this, he can get what he wants.In it I told the young man a story of an Arab, which I believe will benefit others, and all. The man who told me the story told me this: Once upon a time there was a Persian named Al Hafid who lived not far from the Indus River. He owned a large orchid garden, hundreds of acres of fertile land and lush gardens.He is a contented man, and very rich—and because he is rich, he is very content.One day, an old monk came to visit him, sat by his fire and said to him, "You are rich and you live comfortably, but if you have a hand full of diamonds, you can buy the land of the whole country." .If you can own a diamond mine, you can use the influence of this great wealth to put your children on the throne."

When Hafid went to bed that night after listening to the old monk's seductive words, he was a poor man—not because he had lost everything, but because he was becoming dissatisfied, so he felt is poor; and because he thinks he is poor, he is not satisfied.He thought: "I want a diamond mine." So, he couldn't sleep all night.Early the next morning he ran to find the monk. The old monk was very upset when he was woken up early in the morning.But Hafid didn't care about this at all. He shook the old monk out of his sleep nonchalantly and said to him, "Can you tell me where I can find diamonds?"

"Diamonds? What do you want diamonds for?" "I want to have a lot of money," Haffield said, "but I don't know where to find diamonds." "Oh," the old monk understood, and he said, "As long as you find a river flowing on the white sand in the mountain, you can find diamonds in the sand." "Do you really think in such a river?" "There are many, many! You just have to go out and look for it, and you will find it." "I will," Harfield said. So he sold the farm, recovered the loan, put the house in the care of his neighbors, and set out to find diamonds.

Hafid first went to the Moonlight Mountains to search, then to Palestine, then to Europe, and finally spent all his money and became worthless.He stood like a beggar on the seaside of Barcelona, ​​Spain, and saw a huge wave rushing over the Hercules Pillar. Into the sea, the end of life. Not long after Haffield's death, the heir to his property took the camel to the garden to drink water. When the camel put its nose into the clear stream in the garden, the heir found that the light was shining in the shallow white sand at the bottom of the stream. With a strange light, he reached down and touched a black stone. There was a shiny spot on the stone, emitting rainbow-like colors.He took the strange stone into the house, put it on the mantelpiece, and went on with his work, quite forgetting about it.

A few days later, the old monk who had told Hafid where to find the diamond came to visit Hafid's heir.Seeing the light from the stone on the shelf, he ran over immediately, and exclaimed in surprise, "This is a diamond! This is a diamond! Did Harfield come back?" "No, he hasn't come back, and it's not a diamond, it's just a rock, I found it in my back garden." "Young man, you're rich! I know diamonds, and it's really a diamond!" So they ran to the garden together, picked up the white sand at the bottom of the stream with their hands, and found many diamonds that were more beautiful and valuable than the first one.

This is how the Golconda diamond mine in India was discovered.That is the largest diamond mine in human history, and its value far exceeds South Africa's Kimberly.The large Kuinur diamond inlaid in the crown of the British king and the world's largest diamond inlaid in the crown of the Russian emperor were all mined from that diamond mine. John, whenever I remember this story, I can't help but sigh for Al Hafid, who would not have become a Beggars, poor, starving, even jumping into the sea to die.He already had diamonds everywhere. Not every story has meaning, but this Arabian story taught me a valuable life lesson: your diamonds are not somewhere between mountains and seas, if you are determined to dig them, they are in your backyard.The important thing is to genuinely believe in yourself.

Every man has certain ideals which determine the direction of his endeavors and judgments.In this sense, I think that a person who does not believe in himself is like a thief, because anyone who does not believe in himself and does not use his abilities to the full is a person who steals from himself, so to speak; With low creativity, he is also stealing from society.Since no one steals all from himself willfully, those who steal from themselves obviously steal unintentionally.However, this crime is still very serious, because the loss caused by it is as great as willful theft. Only by quitting this behavior of stealing from ourselves can we climb to the top.I hope that young man who is eager to get rich can reflect on the teachings contained in it.

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