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Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Psychology of Success by Newton N. Riddle, published in 1909.

There are elements of genius in every man and woman that if awakened trained, will enable them to do something worthwhile.

There are stores of energy and ambition in every brain that if unlocked and given expression

in action will supply the force necessary to bring things to pass.

There are germs of goodness and divinity in every soul

that if quickened by love and wrought into character

will enable them to live a clean and self-respecting moral life.

Awaken the genius, unlock the energies, self-respecting moral life.

Awaken the genius.

Unlock the energies.

Quicken the divinity in a person.

Change them from negative to positive.

Combine their intellect, energy, and conscience in harmonious expression.

And you have given to that person the positive psychology of success. What is success? What constitutes success? If we are to see things alike, we must have the same viewpoint.

Briefly, success is the accomplishment of anything attempted,

but we must get a larger view of the subject. We must measure success first from the

viewpoint of the individual, and second from their relation to society.

We must measure success in the individual not wholly by their objective achievements

in the few years that belong to the earth life, but in the light of the fact that the influence

of their life extends far into the future.

We must measure the success of the individual as related to humanity,

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