How Does One Conquer Life? | Success Podcasts

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

3.8 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Listen to episode 955 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How Does One Conquer Life? Edited and adapted from Gaining the Round Above by Gustavus S. Kimball.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A more modern definition says that the ideal life, the life of success, is the well-rounded life with broad views, broad culture, broad sympathies, and broad purposes for good. True success by this measure means putting our best muscle, brain, and heart into our work — though the returns may not come tomorrow, next month, or next year. However, rest assured ....

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0:45.7	Today's reading was edited and adapted from Gaining the Round Above,
0:51.4	a guide to personal efficiency by Gustavus S. Kimball, published in 1918.
1:09.8	During a conversation with a learned and distinguished professor, the question was asked,
1:16.6	What would you do if you had your life to live over?
1:21.6	His reply was, first I would be a better man.
1:26.6	Second, I would know more and study more carefully to know my own capabilities.
1:33.8	And third, I would cultivate public speaking.
1:38.8	Without underestimating the force of the first or third answers,
1:43.8	the second one should be uppermost in the mind of every
1:47.0	person who is busy making a career for themselves.
1:52.0	It is a great day in our lives when we begin to discover our capabilities and what it is possible for us to achieve.
2:02.6	It is often true that we have latent capacities, greater than we suspect, and which often
2:09.6	lie dormant until some sudden awakening reveals them to us.
2:15.6	Therefore every person should study to know themselves and what they are
2:21.4	best adapted for in life. You should take stock of yourself, as it were, for a knowledge of your
2:29.7	limitations and possibilities is worth much to you.
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