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Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to the inspirational living podcast.

Today's reading was edited and adapted from Success by Lord Beaverbrook, published in 1921.

Success, that is the Royal Road we all want to tread,

for it gives us the opportunity to exercise our abilities and activities to the full.

Like all human affairs, success is partly a matter of predestination, and partly of free will.

You cannot make genius, but you can improve upon it or destroy it, and most people possess the assets which can be turned into success.

But those who possess these precious gifts will have to gather and expand them.

What are the qualities which make for success?

They are three, judgment, industry, and health. And perhaps the greatest

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