CHANGE YOUR THINKING CHANGE YOUR LIFE
Many of the great fortunes being made today in the United States
and throughout the world are being created by people who started
with nothing. One day, they came up with a breakthrough idea that
revolutionized or transformed their industry.What could it be for you?
■ TWO FACTORS THAT HOLD YOU BACK
There are two major factors that stand in the way of you using more
of your natural intelligence. They are psychosclerosis and homeostasis.
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Psychosclerosis is another name for “hardening of the attitudes.”
This is experienced by a particular type of person who is rigid, in-
flexible, and unchanging. This is the kind of person who develops
fixed attitudes on a certain person or subject and then resists any at-
tempt to change his mind
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