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Today's reading was edited and adapted from Success Word by Edward W. Balk, published in 1895.

The first, the most essential, and the greatest element of success when starting out on a career,

is a correct knowledge of yourself.

You should, before you attempt anything, understand yourself.

You should study yourself.

You should be sure that, no matter whom else you may misunderstand, you have a correct

knowledge of your own nature, your own character, and your own capabilities.

It is because so few people have this knowledge of self that so many become disastrous failures

or fail in achieving what they set out for themselves at the beginning.

Every woman and man in this world is created differently.

No two are alike.

Therefore, the nature, the thoughts, the character, and the capacity of one person is utterly

unlike that of another.

But one person can understand, another cannot.

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