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Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill,
nineteen thirty eight, Chapter four, Drifting

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with the Devil. Tell me first
about your most clever trick, the one

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you use to ensnare the greatest number
of people. If you force me to

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give away this secret, it will
mean my loss of millions of people now

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living in still greater numbers of millions
as yet unborn. I beg of you

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permit me to pass this one question
unanswered. So, his majesty the Devil

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fears a mere, humble earth bound
creature? Is that right? It is

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not right, but it is true. You have no right to rob me

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of my most necessary tool of trade. For millions of years, I have

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dominated earth bound creatures through fear and
ignorance. Now you come along and would

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destroy my use of these weapons by
forcing me to tell how I use them?

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Do you not realize that you will
break my grip on every person who

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heeds this confession you are forcing from
me? Have you no mercy? Have

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you no sense of humor? Have
you no sportsmanship? Stop stalling and start

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confessing. Who are you to ask
mercy of one whom you would destroy if

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you could? Who are you to
talk of sportsmanship and a sense of humor,

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you who, by your own confession, have set up a living hell

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on earth where you punish innocent people
through their fears and ignorance. As for

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minding my own business, that is
just what I am doing when I force

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you to tell how you control people
through their own minds. My business,

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if it can be called a business, is helping to unlock the doors of

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the self made prisons in which men
and women are confined because of the fears

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you have planted in their minds.
My greatest weapon over human beings consists of

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two secret principles by which I gain
control of their minds. I will speak

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first of the principle of habit,
through which I silently enter the minds of

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people. By operating through this principle, I establish I wish I could avoid

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using this word, the habit of
drifting. When a person begins to drift

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on any subject, he is headed
straight toward the gates of what you earth

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bound call hell. Describe all the
ways in which you induce people to drift,

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Define the word, and tell us
exactly what you mean by it.

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I can best define the word drift
by saying that people who think for themselves

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never drift, while those who do
little or no thinking for themselves are drifters.

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A drifter is one who permits himself
to be influenced and controlled by circumstances

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outside of his own mind. He
would rather let me occupy his mind and

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do his thinking than go to the
trouble of thinking for himself. A drifter

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is one who accepts whatever life throws
in his way without making a protest or

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putting up a fight. He doesn't
know what he wants from life and spends

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all of his time getting just that. A drifter has lots of opinions,

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but they are not his own.
Most of them are supplied by me.

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A drifter is one who is too
lazy mentally to use his own brain.

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That is the reason I can take
control of people's thinking and plant my own

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ideas in their minds. I think
I understand what a drifter is. Tell

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me the exact habits of people by
which you induce them to drift through life.

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Start by telling me when and how
you first gain control of a person's

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mind. My control over the mind
of a human being is obtained while the

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person is young. Sometimes I lay
the foundation for my control of a mind

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before the owner of it is born, by manipulating the minds of that person's

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parents. Sometimes I go further back
than this and prepare people for my control

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through what you earth bound call physical
heredity. You see, therefore, I

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have two approaches to the mind of
a person. Yes, go on and

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describe these two doors by which you
enter and control the minds of human beings.

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As I have stated, I help
to bring people into your world with

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weak brains by giving to them before
birth as many as possible of the weaknesses

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of their ancestors. You call this
principle physical heredity. After people are born,

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I make use of what you earth
bound call environment as a means of

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controlling them. This is where the
principle of habit enters. The mind is

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nothing more than the sum total of
one's habits. I won by one.

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I enter the mind and establish habits
which lead finally to my absolute domination of

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the mind. Tell me of the
most common habits by which you control the

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minds of people. That is one
of my cleverest tricks. I enter the

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minds of people through thoughts which they
believe to be their own. Those most

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useful to me are fear superstition,
avarice, greed, lust, revenge,

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anger, vanity, and plain laziness. Through one or more of these,

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I can enter any mind at any
age. But I get my best results

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when I take charge of a mind
while it is young, before its owner

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has learned how to close any of
these nine doors. Then I can set

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up habits which keep the door's ajar
forever. I am catching on to your

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methods. Now, let us go
back to the habit of drifting. Tell

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us all about that habit, since
you say it is your cleverest trick in

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controlling the minds of people. As
I said before, I start people drifting

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during their youth, I induce them
to drift through school without knowing what occupation

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they wish to follow in life.
Here I catch the majority of people.

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Habits are related drift in one direction, and soon you will be drifting in

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all directions. I also use environmental
habits to give me a definite grip on

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my victims. I see you make
it your business to train children in the

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habit of drifting by inducing them to
go through school without aim or purpose.

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Now tell me of some of your
other tricks with which you cause people to

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become drifters. Well, my second
best trick in developing the habit of drifting

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is one that I put into operation
with the aid of parents and public school

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teachers and religious instructors. I warn
you not to force me to mention this

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trick. Do not disclose this trick. If you do so, you will

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be hated by my co workers who
help me use this trick. If you

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publish this confession in book form,
your book will be barred from the public

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schools. It will be blacklisted by
most of the religious leaders. It will

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be hidden from children by many parents. The newspapers will not dare to give

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reviews of your book. Millions of
people will hate you for writing the book.

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In fact, no one will like
you or your book except those who

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think, and you know how very
few there are of this sort. My

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advice to you is to let me
skip the description of my second best trick.

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So for my own good, you
wish to withhold the description of your

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second best trick. No one will
like my book except those who think,

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Eh, very well, go ahead
and answer. You'll regret this, mister

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Earthbound, But the joke is on
you. By this mistake of yours,

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you will divert attention from me to
yourself. My coworkers, of whom there

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are millions, will forget about me
and hate you for uncovering my methods.

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Never mind about me, tell me
all about this second best trick of yours

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with which you induce people to drift
with you to hell. My second best

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trick is not second at all.
It is first. It is first because

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without it I never could gain control
of the minds of the youths. Parents,

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school teachers, religious instructors, and
many other adults unknowingly serve my purpose

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by helping me to destroy in children
the habit of thinking for themselves. They

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go about their work in various ways, never suspecting what they are doing to

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the minds of children or the real
cause of the children's mistakes. I can

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hardly believe you, your majesty.
I have always believed that children's best friends

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were those closest to them, their
parents, their school teachers, and their

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religious inns instructors. Where would children
go for dependable guidance if not to those

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who have charge of them. That
is where my cleverness comes in. There

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is the exact explanation of how I
control ninety eight percent of the people of

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the world. I take possession of
people during their youth, before they come

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into possession of their own minds,
by using those who are in charge of

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them. I especially need the help
of those who give children their religious instruction,

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because it is here that I break
down independent thought and start people on

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the habit of drifting by confusing their
minds with unprovable ideas concerning a world of

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which they know nothing. It is
here also that I plant in the minds

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of children the greatest of all fears, the fear of hell. I understand

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that it is easy for you to
frighten children with threats of hell, But

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how do you continue to make them
fear you and your hell after they grow

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up and learn to think for themselves. Children grow up, but they do

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not always learn to think for themselves. Once I capture the mind of a

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child through fear, I weaken that
child's ability to reason and to think for

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himself, and that weakness goes with
the child all through life. Is that

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not taking unfair advantage of a human
being by contaminating his mind before he comes

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into full possession of it. Everything
is fair that I can use to further

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my ends. I have no foolish
limitations of right and wrong. Might is

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right with me. I use every
known human weakness to gain and keep control

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of the human mind. I understand
your devilish nature. Now let us get

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back to further discussion of your methods
of inducing people to drift to hell here

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on earth. From your confession,
I see that you take charge of children

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while their minds are young and pliable. Tell me more of how you use

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parents, teachers, and religious leaders
to ensnare people into drifting. One of

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my favorite tricks is to coordinate the
efforts of parents and religious instructors so they

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work together in helping me to destroy
the children's power to think for themselves.

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I use many religious instructors to undermine
the courage and power of independent thought of

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children by teaching them to fear me. But I use parents to aid the

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religious leaders in this great work of
mine. How do parents help religious leaders

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destroy their children's power to think for
themselves? I never heard of such a

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monstrosity. I accomplish this through a
very clever trick. I cause the parents

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to teach their children to believe as
the parents do in connection with religion,

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politics, marriage, and other important
subjects. In this way, as you

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can see. When I gain control
of the mind of a person, I

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can easily perpetuate the control by causing
that person to help me fasten it upon

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the minds of his offspring. In
what other ways do you use parents to

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convert children into drifters. I cause
children to become drifters by following the example

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of their parents, most of whom
I have already taken over and bound eternally

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to my cause. In some parts
of the world, I gain mastery over

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children's minds and subdue there will power
in exactly the same way that men break

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and subdue animals of lower intelligence.
It makes no difference to me how a

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child's will is subdued. As long
as it fears something, I will enter

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its mind through that fear and limit
the child's power to think independently. It

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seems that you go out of your
way to keep people from thinking. Yes,

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accurate thought is death to me.
I cannot exist in the minds of

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those who think accurately. I do
not mind people thinking as long as they

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think in terms of fear, discouragement, hopelessness, and destructiveness. When they

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begin to think in constructive terms of
faith, courage, hope, and definiteness

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of purpose, they immediately become allies
of my opposition, and are therefore lost

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to me. I am beginning to
understand how you gain control of the minds

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of children through the help of their
parents and religious instructors. But I do

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not see how the school teachers help
you in this damnable work. School teachers

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help me gain control of the minds
of children, not so much by what

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they teach the children as because of
what they do not teach them. The

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entire public school system is so administered
that it helps my cause by teaching children

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almost everything except how to use their
own minds and think independently. I live

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in fear that some day some courageous
person will reverse the present system of school

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teaching and deal my cause a death
blow by allowing the students to become the

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instructors, using those who now serve
as teachers only as guides to help the

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children establish ways and means of developing
their own minds from within. When that

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time comes, the school teachers will
no longer belong to my staff. I

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was under the impression that the purpose
of all schooling was to help children to

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think. That may be the purpose
of schooling, but the system in most

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of the schools of the world does
not carry out the purpose. School Children

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are taught not to develop and use
their own minds, but to adopt and

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use the thoughts of others. This
sort of schooling destroys the capacity for independent

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thought, except in a few rare
cases where children rely so definitely upon their

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own will power that they refuse to
allow others to do their thinking. Accurate

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thought is the business of my opposition, not mine What relationship, if any,

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has your opposition with the homes,
the churches, and the schools.

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Your reply to this question should be
interesting. Here is where I make use

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of some more of my clever tricks. I cause it to appear that everything

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done by the parents, the school
teachers, and the religious instructors is being

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done by my opposition. This diverts
attention from me while I manipulate the minds

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of the young. When religious instructors
try to teach children the virtues of my

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opposition, they generally do so by
frightening them with my name. That is

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all I ask of them. I
kindle the flame of fear into proportions which

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destroy the child's power to think accurately. In the public schools, The teachers

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further my cause by keeping the children
so busy cramming non essential information into their

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minds, they have no opportunity to
think accurately or to analyze correctly the things

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their instructors teach them. Do you
claim for your cause all those who are

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bound by the habit of drifting?
No, drifting is only one of my

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tricks through which I take over the
power of independent thought. Before a drifter

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becomes my permanent property, I must
lead him on and ensnare him with another

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trick. I will tell you about
this other trick after I finish describing my

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methods of converting people into drifters.
Do you mean you have a method by

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which you can cause people to drift
so far away from self determination that they

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can never save themselves. Yes,
a definite method, and it is so

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effective it never fails. Do I
understand you to claim your method is so

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powerful your opposition cannot reclaim those whom
you have permanently ensnared through drifting. I

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claim just that. Do you think
I would control so many people if my

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opposition could prevent me. Nothing can
stop me from controlling people except people themselves.

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Nothing can stop me except the power
of accurate thought. People who think

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accurately do not drift on any subject. They recognize the power of their own

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minds. Moreover, they take over
that power and yield it to no person

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or influence. Go ahead and tell
me more of the methods by which you

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cause people to drift. To hell
with you. I cause people to drift

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on every subject through which I can
control independent thought and action. Take the

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subject of health, for example,
I cause most people to eat too much

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food and the wrong sort of food. This leads to indigestion and destroys the

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power of accurate thought. If the
public schools and the churches taught children more

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about proper eating, they would do
my cause irreparable damage. Marriage. I

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cause men and women to drift into
marriage without plan or purpose, designed to

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convert the relationship into harmony. Here
is one of my most effective methods of

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converting people into the habit of drifting. I cause married people to bicker and

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nag one another over money matters.
I cause them to quarrel over the bringing

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up of their children. I engage
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and in disagreements over friends and social
activities. I keep them so busy

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finding fault with one another that they
never have time to do anything else long

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enough to break the habit of drifting
occupation. I teach people to become drifters

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by causing them to drift out of
school into the first job they can find,

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with no definite aim or purpose except
to make a living. Through this

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trick, I keep millions of people
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Through this fear, I lead them
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point beyond which no individual ever has
broken. The drifting habit savings. I

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cause people to spend freely and to
save sparingly or not at all until I

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take complete control of them. Through
their fear of poverty environment, I cause

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people to drift into inharmonious and unpleasant
environments in the home, in their places

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of occupation, in their relationship with
relatives and acquaintances, and to remain there

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until I claim them. Through the
habit of drifting dominating thoughts, I cause

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people to drift into the habit of
thinking negative thoughts. This leads to negative

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acts and involves people in controversies and
fills their minds with fears, thus paving

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the way for me to enter and
control their minds. When I move in,

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I do so by appealing to people
through negative thoughts, which they believe

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to be their own. I plant
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of people through the pulpit, the
newspapers, the moving pictures, the radio,

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and all other popular methods of appeal
to the mind. I cause people

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to allow me to do their thinking
for them, because they are too lazy

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and too indifferent to think for themselves. I conclude from what you say that

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drifting and procrastination are the same.
Is that true? Yes, that is

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correct. Any habit which causes one
to procrastinate, to put off reaching a

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definite decision leads to the habit of
drifting. Is man the only creature who

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drifts? Yes? All other creatures
move in response to definite laws of nature.

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Man alone defies nature's laws and drifts
when he wills. Everything outside the

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minds of men is controlled by my
opposition, by laws so definite that drifting

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is impossible. I control the minds
of men solely because of their habit of

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drifting, which is only another way
of saying that I control the minds of

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men only because they neglect or refuse
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This is getting to be pretty deep
stuff for a mere human being. Let

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us get back to the discussion of
something less abstract. Please tell me how

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this drifting habit affects people in the
everyday walks of life, and tell me

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in terms of the average person can
understand. I would prefer to keep this

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interview up among the stars, no
doubt you would. That would save you

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from being exposed. But let us
come back to earth. Tell me now

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what drifting is doing to us as
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Frankly, I may as well tell
you that I hate the United States as

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only the devil can hate. That
is interesting. What is the cause of

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this hatred? The cause was born
on July fourth, seventeen seventy six,

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when fifty six men signed a document
which destroyed my chances of controlling the nation.

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You know that document as the Declaration
of Independence. Had it not been

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for the influence of that damnable document, I would now have a dictator running

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the country, and I would stop
this rite to free speech and independent thought

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that is threatening my rule on earth. Am I to understand from what you

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say that nations controlled by self appointed
dictators belong in your camp. There are

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no self appointed dictators. I appoint
them all. Moreover, I manipulate them

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and direct them in their work.
Nations run by my dictators know what they

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want and take it by force.
Look what I have done through Mussolini in

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Italy. Look what I am doing
through Hyder in Germany. Look what I

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am doing through Stalin in Russia.
My dictators run those nations for me because

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the people have been subdued through the
habit of drifting. My dictators do no

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drifting. That is why they rule
for me. The millions of people under

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their control. What would happen if
Mussolini, Stalin, and Hitler turn traitors

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and disavowed you and your rule.
That will not happen because I have them

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too well bribed. I am paying
each of them with the soop of his

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own vanity, by making him believe
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That is another trick of mine.
Let us come back to the United States

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and learn something of what you are
doing to convert people into the habit of

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drifting. Right now, I am
paving the way for a dictatorship by sowing

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the seeds of fear and uncertainty in
the minds of the people. Through whom

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are you carrying on your work?
Mainly through the President. I am destroying

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his influence with the people by causing
him to drift on the question of a

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working agreement between employers and their employees. If I can induce him to drift

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for another year, he will be
so thoroughly discredited. I can hand over

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the country to a dictator. If
the President continues to drift, I will

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paralyze personal freedom in the United States, just as I destroyed it in Spain,

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Italy, Germany and England. What
you say leads me to the conclusion

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that drifting is a weakness which inevitably
ends in failure, whether among individuals or

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nations. Is that your claim drifting
is the most common cause of failure in

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every walk of life. I can
control anyone whom I can induce to form

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the habit of drifting on any subject. The reason for this is twofold.

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First, the drifter is just so
much putty in my hands to be molded

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into whatever pattern I choose, because
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Second, the drifter cannot get help
from my opposition, because the opposition is

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not attracted to anything so soft and
useless. Is that why a few people

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are wealthy while the majority of people
are poor. That is exactly the reason.

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Poverty, like physical illness, is
a contagious disease. You find it

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always among the drifters, never among
those who know what they want and are

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determined to get just that. Ellet
may mean something to you when I call

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your attention to the fact that the
non drifters, whom I do not control,

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and those who possess most of the
wealth of the world, happen to

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be the same people. I have
always understood that money was the root of

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all evil, that the poor and
the meek would inherit heaven, while the

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wealthy would pass into your hands.
What have you to say of that claim?

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Men who know how to get the
material things of life generally know how

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to keep out of the hands of
the devil as well. The ability to

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acquire things is contagious. Drifters acquire
nothing except that which no one else wants.

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If more people had definite aims and
stronger desires for material and spiritual riches,

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I would of fewer victims. I
assume from what you say that you

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do not claim fellowship with the industrial
leaders. Evidently they are not friends of

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yours friends of mine. I'll tell
you what sort of friends of mine they

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are. They have belted the entire
country with good roads, thus bringing into

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close communion the people of both city
and country. They have converted ores into

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steel, with which they have built
the skeletons of great skyscrapers. They have

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harnessed electrical power and converted it into
a thousand uses, all designed to give

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man time to think. They have
provied, through the automobile, personal transportation

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to the humbler citizen, thus giving
to everyone the freedom of travel. They

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have provided every home with instantaneous news
of what is happening in all parts of

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the world through the aid of the
radio. They have reared libraries in every

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city, town, and hamlet,
and have filled them with books, giving

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to all who read a complete outline
of the most useful knowledge mankind has gathered

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from his experiences. They have given
the humblest citizen the right to express his

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own opinion on any subject, any
time, anywhere, without fear of molestation.

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And they have seen to it that
every citizen may help make his own

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laws. Levy his own taxes and
manage his own country through the ballot.

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These are but some of the things
the industrial leaders have done to give every

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citizen the privilege of becoming a non
drifter. Do you think these men have

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helped my cause? Who are some
of the present day non drifters over whom

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you have no control? I have
control over no non drifter present or past.

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I control the week, not those
who think for themselves. Go ahead

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and describe a typical drifter. Give
your description point by points, so I

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can recognize a drifter when I see
him. The first thing you will notice

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about a drifter is his total lack
of a major purpose in life. He

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will be conspicuous by his lack of
self confidence. He will never accomplish anything

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requiring thought and effort. He spends
all he earns and more too if he

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can get credit. He will be
sick or ailing from some real or imaginary

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cause and calling to high heaven.
If he suffers the least physical pain,

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he will have little or no imagination. He will lack enthusiasm and initiative to

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begin anything he is not forced to
undertake, and he will plainly express his

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weakness by taking the line of least
resistance whenever he can do so. He

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will be ill tempered and lacking in
control over his emotions. His personality will

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be without magnetism, and it will
not attract other people. He will have

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a pain onions on everything, but
accurate knowledge of nothing. He may be

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jack of all trades, but good
at none. He will neglect to co

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operate with those around him, even
those on whom he must depend for food

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and shelter. He will make the
same mistake over and over again, never

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profiting by failure. He will be
narrow minded and intolerant on all subjects,

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ready to crucify those who may disagree
with him. He will expect everything of

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others, but be willing to give
little or nothing in return. He may

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begin many things, but he will
complete nothing. He will be loud in

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his condemnation of his government, but
he will never tell you definitely how it

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can be improved. He will never
reach decisions on anything if he can avoid

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it, and if he is forced
to decide, he will reverse himself at

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the first opportunity. He will eat
too much and exercise too little. He

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will take a drink of liquor if
some one else will pay for it.

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He will gamble if he can do
it on the cuff. He will criticize

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others who are succeeding in their chosen
calling. In brief, the drifter will

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work harder to get out of thinking
than most others work in earning a good

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living. He will tell a lie
rather than admit his ignorance on any subject.

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If he works for others, he
will criticize them to their backs and

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flatter them to their faces. You
have given, please now describe him on

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sight me a graphic description of the
drifter the non drifter, so that I

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may recognize. The first sign of
a non drifter is this. He is

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always engaged in doing something definite through
some well organized plan which is definite.

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He has a major goal in life
toward which he is always working, and

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many minor goals, all of which
lead toward his central scheme. The tone

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of his voice, the quickness of
his step, the sparkle in his eyes,

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the quickness of his decisions clearly mark
him as a person who knows exactly

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what he wants and is determined to
get it, no matter how long it

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may take or what price he must
pay. If you ask him questions,

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he gives you direct answers and never
falls back on evasions or resorts to subterfuge.

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He extends many favors to others,
but accepts favors sparingly or not at

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all. He will be found up
front, whether he is playing a game

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or fighting a war. If he
does not know the answers, he will

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say so frankly. He has a
good memory, never offers an alibi for

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his shortcomings. He never blames others
for his mistakes, no matter if they

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deserve the blame. He used to
be known as a go getter, but

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in modem times he is called a
go giver. You will find him running

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the biggest business in town, living
on the best street, driving the best

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automobile, and making his presence felt
wherever he happens to be. He is

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an inspiration to all who come into
contact with his mind. The major distinguishing

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feature of the non drifter is this
he has a mind of his own and

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uses it for all purposes. Is
the non drifter born with some mental,

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physical, or spiritual advantage not available
to the drifter. No, The major

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difference between the drifter and the non
drifter is something equally available to both.

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It is simply the prerogative right of
each to use his own mind and think

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for himself. Pound what brief message
would you send to the typical drifter if

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you wish to cure him of this
evil habit? I would admonish him to

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wake up and give give what some
form of service useful to as many people

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as possible. So the non drifter
is supposed to give, is he yes,

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ife expects to get, and he
must give before he gets. Some

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people doubt that you exist. I
wouldn't worry about that if I were you.

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Those who are ready to be converted
from the habit of drifting will recognize

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the authenticity of this interview by its
soundness of counsel. The others are not

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worth the trouble it would take to
convert them. Why do you not try

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to stop me from publishing this confession? I am ringing from you because that

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would be the surest of all ways
to guarantee you will publish it. I

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have a better plan than trying to
suppress publication of my confession. I will

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urge you to go ahead with the
publication. Then sit back and watch you

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suffer when some of my faithful drifters
begin to make things hot for you,

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I will not need to deny your
story. My followers will do that for

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me. See if they don't