Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

THE GREAT MYSTERY
I thought I had come late to the party, that everyone knew that
learning was the key to the future. I was amazed and perplexed to
find, when I looked around me, that very few other people were do-
ing what I was doing. Most people, by their own admission, were
“living lives of quiet desperation,” in Thoreau’s words. They were
working at jobs they didn’t like, earning salaries far below their po-
tentials, staying in relationships they didn’t enjoy, and living lives
that gave them no satisfaction.
I tried to tell them that the way out was 
up
. I told anyone who
would listen that they could learn anything they needed to learn to
achieve any goal they could set for themselves. There were no limits.
But few people seemed to be listening.
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