The Power of Concentration

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We all know that in order to accomplish a certain thing we must concentrate. It is of the utmost value to learn how to concentrate. To make a success of anything you must be able to concentrate your entire thought upon the idea you are working out.

Do not become discouraged, if you are unable to hold your thought on the subject very long at first. There are very few that can. It seems a peculiar fact that it is easier to concentrate on something that is not good for us, than on something that is beneficial. This tendency is overcome when we learn to concentrate consciously.

If you will just practice a few concentration exercises each day you will find you will soon develop this wonderful power.

Success is assured when you are able to concentrate for you are then able to utilize for your good all constructive thoughts and shut out all the destructive ones. It is of the greatest value to be able to think only that which will be beneficial.

To make a success of anything you must be able to concentrate your entire thought upon the idea you are working out.

Did you ever stop to think what an important part your thoughts, concentrated thoughts, play in your life? This book shows their far-reaching and all-abiding effects.

These lessons you will find very practical. The exercises I have thoroughly tested. They are arranged so that you will notice an improvement from the very start, and this will give you encouragement. They point out ways in which you can help yourself.

Man is a wonderful creature, but he must be trained and developed to be useful. A great work can be accomplished by every man if he can be awakened to do his very best. But the greatest man would not accomplish much if he lacked concentration and effort. Dwarfs can often do the work of giants when they are transformed by the almost magic power of great mental concentration. But giants will only do the work of dwarfs when they lack this power.

We accomplish more by concentration than by fitness; the man that is apparently best suited for a place does not always fill it best. It is the man that concentrates on its every possibility that makes an art of both his work and his life.

All your real advancement must come from your individual effort.

This course of lessons will stimulate and inspire you to achieve success; it will bring you into perfect harmony with the laws of success. It will give you a firmer hold on your duties and responsibilities.

The methods of thought concentration given in this work if put into practice will open up interior avenues that will connect you with the everlasting laws of Being and their exhaustless foundation of unchangeable truth.

As most people are very different it is impossible to give instructions that will be of the same value to all. The author has endeavored in these lessons to awaken that within the soul which perhaps the book does not express. So study these lessons as a means of awakening and training that which is within yourself. Let all your acts and thoughts have the intensity and power of concentration.

To really get the full benefit of these lessons you should read a page, then close the book and thoughtfully recall its ideas. If you will do this you will soon cultivate a concentrated mental habit, which will enable you to read with ordinary rapidity and remember all that you read.

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Concentration is the ground of every accomplishment. Holding the whole thought on the idea being worked out lets a person use every constructive thought and shut out the destructive ones, and that is why success follows. Dumont tells the beginner not to lose heart when attention wanders at first. Few can hold a thought for long, and the mind turns more easily to what harms it than to what helps it, but conscious practice overcomes this. Concentration counts for more than natural fitness: dwarfs do the work of giants when they have it, and giants do only the work of dwarfs when they lack it. All real advancement comes from individual effort. Dumont offers tested exercises that bring improvement from the very start, and he holds that practiced concentration opens interior avenues to the everlasting laws of Being. The lessons are meant to awaken what already lies within the reader, not to be read passively. For this reason Dumont closes with a method of study: read a page, close the book, and recall its ideas until concentrated attention becomes a habit.

Key ideas

  • Success comes from holding your entire thought on the idea you are working out.
  • Early difficulty in holding attention is normal, and daily practice with simple exercises soon builds the power.
  • Concentration lets you use constructive thoughts and shut out destructive ones.
  • Concentration accomplishes more than natural fitness, so the less gifted can outdo the more gifted.
  • Dumont holds that all real advancement comes from your own effort, and the lessons serve to awaken what is already within you.
  • Read a page, close the book, and recall its ideas. This builds a concentrated mental habit and a lasting memory of what you read.

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