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I don't believe there's a human being on00:00:02
Earth who doesn't experience periods of00:00:04
depression times when as far as he's00:00:06
concerned the whole world can close up00:00:09
shop and go fishing00:00:10
the experts say these periods of feeling00:00:12
low unhappy and depressed or00:00:15
normal part of living00:00:16
provided we don't go too low and we're00:00:18
depressed or too high at the happy end00:00:20
of the cycle if your periods of00:00:22
depression are too deep or last too long00:00:24
you could probably use some professional00:00:26
help00:00:27
but we all experience these highs and00:00:30
lows and I've been in a real beauty of a00:00:32
low for the past day or so incidentally00:00:34
these periods of depression almost00:00:35
always follow an illness even a slight00:00:38
cold00:00:39
well last Sunday morning I was awakened00:00:41
by the telephone at five o'clock in the00:00:43
morning it was a man I'd known years00:00:45
before who happened to be passing00:00:47
through town and just wanted to call and00:00:49
say hello00:00:50
at five on a Sunday morning he wanted to00:00:52
call and say hello but once I'm up I'm00:00:55
up for good so I went to the kitchen to00:00:56
make a pot of coffee the moment that00:00:58
telephone rang I was aware that I was00:01:01
depressed in fact the telephone had also00:01:03
awakened my wife who took one look at me00:01:05
and asked me what was wrong I told her I00:01:07
was feeling a little depressed and she00:01:10
gave me a very cheering message00:01:12
if I remember correctly she said dad oh00:01:15
really she always has one of those great morale00:01:18
boosters right at the tip of her tongue00:01:19
but as I was making the coffee I thought00:01:22
that even though I felt low enough to00:01:23
crawl under the door I couldn't think of00:01:25
a single human being on Earth with whom00:01:28
I'd trade places00:01:30
and this seemed to have a good effect00:01:32
and I began to wonder if this is true of00:01:33
everyone00:01:35
would anyone agree to physically change00:01:37
places with another person to forget00:01:39
completely his own life and past family00:01:42
and friends to lose completely his own00:01:44
personality his own mind and abilities00:01:46
and take on those of another human being00:01:49
a stranger00:01:51
would an old man sitting in the park00:01:53
willingly change places with the child00:01:55
being pushed by in a stroller would any00:01:58
woman regardless of her present life00:02:00
change places with any other woman on00:02:01
Earth what do you think would you can00:02:04
you think of a person alive today with00:02:06
whom you'd willingly trade places00:02:08
I mentioned this to my wife I asked her00:02:10
the same question and she said certainly00:02:12
not00:02:13
she said no one would because it would00:02:15
mean losing one's identity00:02:18
and that a person's identity is his most00:02:21
important possession00:02:23
now to me this was all very interesting00:02:25
and I must admit that it went away a00:02:29
long way toward restoring my attitude00:02:31
toward myself and the world00:02:32
and the psychologists agree with my wife00:02:34
they say that the most important thing00:02:36
to a human being is00:02:39
his identity as a person and that's the00:02:41
thing he wouldn't trade00:02:43
and now a moment for this message00:02:46
bring the subject of trading places with00:02:48
someone else up the next time the family00:02:50
sits down at a meal and give it some00:02:52
thought on your own it has a way of00:02:54
getting us back on course how about it00:02:56
is there anyone you'd trade with00:03:00
thank you Harvey mindis a practicing00:03:03
psychologist and a professor at UCLA is00:03:06
the author of this marvelous book00:03:07
laughter and Liberation in which he00:03:10
points out that everyone seems to00:03:12
realize the importance of a sense of00:03:13
humor and agrees that it's one of our00:03:15
most valuable faculties thinkers simple00:03:18
and profound declare that the ability to00:03:20
see the funny side of things and to00:03:21
laugh at ourselves and our troubles is00:03:24
an asset of the greatest magnitude it00:03:26
can help us contend with adversity00:03:27
derive Greater Joy from living and00:03:30
maintain our sanity yet no one seems to00:03:32
know how to cultivate it00:03:34
the kind of humor that deserves to be00:03:36
called a therapeutic is not the kind00:03:39
that enjoys jokes and comic routines for00:03:42
delightful as they may be they're00:03:43
contrived and superficial bearing about00:03:46
the same relation to therapeutic humor00:03:48
is pretty pictures due to art the kind00:03:51
of sense of humor that can help us00:03:53
maintain our sanity moves Beyond jokes00:03:55
Beyond wit Beyond laughter itself00:03:57
it must constitute a frame of mind a00:04:00
point of view a deep00:04:01
reaching attitude toward life a cluster00:04:05
of qualities characterizes this peculiar00:04:07
frame of mind flexibility in this case a00:04:10
person's willingness to examine every00:04:11
side of every issue and every side of00:04:13
every side spontaneity its ability to00:04:15
LEAP from one mood or mode of thought to00:04:17
another unconventionality is freedom00:04:20
from the values of his time his place00:04:22
and his profession00:04:23
shrewdness his refusal to believe that00:04:25
anyone least of all himself is what he00:04:28
seems to be playfulness his grasp of00:04:30
life is a game a tragic comic game that00:04:33
nobody wins but that does not have to be00:04:35
one to be enjoyed and humility that00:04:37
elusive quality exemplified by the rabbi00:04:41
in this traditional story and why is all00:04:43
Rabbi laid dying so his disciples lined00:04:46
up next to his deathbed to catch his00:04:47
final words they arrange themselves in00:04:50
order for the most brilliant pupil to00:04:51
the most obtuse the brilliant one bent00:04:54
over the prostrate form and whispered00:04:56
Rabbi what are your final words00:04:58
my final words murmured the ancient00:05:01
Rabbi are life is a river00:05:03
or the disciple passed it on to the00:05:05
person next to him and the phrase00:05:07
traveled like wildfire down the line00:05:08
when it reached the oath at the end00:05:10
however he scratched his head in00:05:12
perplexity what does the rabbi mean life00:05:14
is a river he asked well that question00:05:16
of course traveled back up the line what00:05:18
does the rabbi meme life is a river when00:05:20
the star pupil heard it he leaned over00:05:21
again Rabbi he employed for the old man00:05:23
was breathing his last what do you mean00:05:25
life is a river and the rabbi shrugging00:05:28
croaked so it's not a river00:05:31
a man who can shrug off the00:05:32
insufficiency of his ultimate wisdom the00:05:34
meaninglessness of his profoundest00:05:36
thoughts is a man in touch with the very00:05:39
soul of humor and each of the six00:05:41
qualities contributing to it00:05:43
and now00:05:45
just a moment for this message00:05:48
the six qualities are the kind of sense00:05:50
of humor each of his needs flexibility00:05:52
willingness to see every side of every00:05:54
side of an issue spontaneity00:05:57
unconventionality shrewdness playfulness00:05:59
and humility how's your sense of humor00:06:02
these days maybe you saw the news item00:06:04
sometime back about a Canadian farmer00:06:06
who sold his Strat of various violins00:06:09
for I think it was in the neighborhood00:06:10
of sixty thousand dollars he sold it to00:06:13
the same New York City dealer he had00:06:15
bought it from many years before the00:06:17
dealer paid him more for it than he had00:06:19
paid and that's because of course the00:06:21
violin had appreciated in value over the00:06:24
years and because of the shrinking00:06:25
buying power of the dollar but the00:06:26
farmer sold his precious violin by the00:06:29
world's most famous violent Craftsman00:06:30
because as he put it I'm getting old and00:06:32
I have no children to leave it to and by00:06:35
getting it back in the hand to the00:06:36
dealer he knew that it would wind up00:06:38
with someone who would treasure it as he00:06:39
had00:06:40
Antonio stradivari the Italian violin00:06:43
maker lived from 1644 to 1737 that's 9300:06:48
years at a time when the average life00:06:51
span was about 30. he worked alone00:06:54
although later in his life his sons00:06:55
helped him no committee advised him no00:06:58
one made decisions for him his tools00:07:00
were primitive but that was not00:07:01
important he put himself into his work00:07:03
all the world's tools couldn't make up00:07:05
for that when he was finished with an00:07:07
instrument when he was sure that his00:07:08
work measured up to his own personal00:07:10
standards he signed his name to it and00:07:12
today more than 200 years later his name00:07:14
is a household word all over the world00:07:17
everybody's heard of Stradivarius the00:07:19
Latin form of the name that he inscribed00:07:21
on his violins throughout history there00:07:23
have always been men with similar00:07:25
standards of excellence authors such as00:07:27
William Shakespeare00:07:30
artists like Leonardo da Vinci00:07:33
Craftsman Nike Furniture maker Thomas00:07:36
Chippendale00:07:37
silversmith Paul Revere everything they00:07:40
did was done well not because it had to00:07:42
be but because they wanted it to be they00:07:44
had only to please themselves yet the00:07:47
products of their fertile minds and00:07:49
skillful hands are still collected and00:07:50
admired today00:07:52
what is it that causes one person to00:07:54
take pride in what he does well others00:07:56
give little or no thought to the quality00:07:58
of their work at all you know00:07:59
of course we talk about stradivario Da00:08:02
Vinci we're talking about Greek Geniuses00:08:04
towering talents who found their media00:08:06
and became great in them00:08:08
have been many other fine violin makers00:08:10
and artists who took just as much pride00:08:12
and Care in their work but lacked the00:08:14
same quality of talent there are even00:08:16
today many thousands of craftsmen who00:08:18
will not turn out shoddy work and who00:08:20
are proud to sign their names to their00:08:21
Creations they're in the minority00:08:23
perhaps they've always been in the00:08:24
minority but the respect for Quality00:08:27
never changes it still commands the00:08:29
highest price it's still revered00:08:31
wherever we find it and the person00:08:32
creating it has gained for himself two00:08:35
precious assets first he's brought the00:08:37
kind of security that lasts a lifetime00:08:39
and he'd never worry about his income00:08:41
and second his work is a source of00:08:43
satisfaction and joy to him he derives00:08:46
deep satisfaction from being an uncommon00:08:48
person00:08:49
and now a moment for this message00:08:51
people who set their own high standards00:08:54
to which they make themselves measure up00:08:57
lead enjoyable exciting lives each task00:09:00
they began is a fascinating contest to00:09:02
achieve their own standards of00:09:04
excellence00:09:05
thank you a father sat down for a chat00:09:07
with his 16 year old son the father is a00:09:09
good friend of mine and an excellent00:09:11
salesman so he had a pad of paper and a00:09:13
pen with him because it's always better00:09:15
if you can illustrate your point while00:09:16
you're making it and while his son00:09:18
watched with interest Jim drew a fairly00:09:21
good likeness of a goose00:09:23
and behind the goose00:09:27
he drew three eggs00:09:30
they said to his son Jimmy00:09:33
those are golden eggs and that's the00:09:36
goose that lays the golden eggs now if00:09:37
you had your choice of buying one or the00:09:39
other which would you buy Nissan said00:09:41
why buy the goose of course00:09:43
of course you'd buy the goose his father00:09:44
said you invest your money in the goose00:09:46
because it could go on laying those00:09:48
golden eggs for years sure his son has00:09:51
said anyone would yes Jim went on anyone00:09:53
would if they were presented it in this00:09:56
way but the fact of the matter is son00:09:58
that most people have the exact00:09:59
opportunity and yet they invest in eggs00:10:01
instead of the goose now the boy was00:10:03
quite interested and he asked his father00:10:05
what he meant his father said in this00:10:06
little quiz I've given you the goose and00:10:09
the golden eggs are of course symbolic00:10:11
the golden eggs people invest in are00:10:13
represented by their homes cars00:10:15
television sets Furniture refrigerators00:10:17
stoves boats vacations all the good00:10:19
things they can buy all the good things00:10:22
everyone wants to have and should have00:10:23
well what's wrong with that the boy00:10:25
asked well there's nothing wrong with00:10:27
that Jimmy it's just that most of them00:10:29
invest in golden eggs exclusively and00:10:31
don't invest enough in the goose that00:10:33
provides all these golden eggs00:10:35
you see the goose that lays the golden00:10:38
eggs is the breadwinner the more money00:10:40
invested in him the more golden eggs he00:10:44
can provide00:10:45
I think you for example Jimmy he said00:10:47
you're 16 and like most boys your age00:10:50
you don't know what you want to do with00:10:52
your life yet you're confused you00:10:54
haven't really been giving your best to00:10:56
your schoolwork because you're not sure00:10:59
you'll need a lot of the subjects you're00:11:00
studying after you get out of school and00:11:02
not knowing what to do after you're an00:11:04
adult you don't know what you'd want to00:11:06
major in at college00:11:07
now what I want you to understand is00:11:09
that as long as you're getting an00:11:11
education you're investing we're both00:11:13
investing in this Goose The More We00:11:15
invest here the more golden eggs you'll00:11:18
be able to provide for yourself and your00:11:19
family someday and if you're really00:11:21
smart you'll never stop investing in the00:11:24
goose even after college each year00:11:26
you'll invest a percentage of your00:11:28
income and your continuing education and00:11:30
each year you'll find well that you're00:11:32
becoming more valuable as a person able00:11:35
to provide still more and more of these00:11:37
golden eggs you and your family will00:11:39
want do you understand that Jimmy00:11:42
the boy was out of a long time and he00:11:44
said yes I think I do Dad I think I do00:11:48
now just a moment for this message00:11:51
after my friend had his little00:11:53
Illustrated talk with his son as he told00:11:55
me later the boy looked at the00:11:57
illustration a long time and he picked00:11:59
it up folded it put it in his pocket and00:12:01
went off to do his homework00:12:04
I've got some advice here for you today00:12:06
on how to become heated how you can stir00:12:09
up resentments and ill will that will00:12:11
simmer and hang on for years all you00:12:13
have to do is criticize00:12:16
no matter what a person has done or how00:12:18
he lives his life he doesn't want nor00:12:20
does he feel he needs criticism this is00:12:22
why a criminal can fly into a rage00:12:24
against Witnesses Prosecuting attorneys00:12:26
and judges although he may have00:12:28
committed the most serious crime and00:12:29
knows full well that he's committed he00:12:31
deeply resents those who by their00:12:33
actions are critical of him00:12:35
the Unfaithful husband a wife will as00:12:38
often as not fly into wounded00:12:39
self-pitying rage when confronted with00:12:41
evidence of his or her infidelity now00:12:44
I'm not saying that people should not be00:12:45
criticized for criminal or moral00:12:47
misconduct but I am saying that00:12:48
criticism makes a person try to justify00:12:51
himself it wounds his precious Pride00:12:53
hurts his sense of importance and00:12:55
thoroughly abuses and arouses his00:12:57
resentment against the person who or00:13:00
persons during the criticizing when we00:13:02
criticize another person we set00:13:04
ourselves above him we become the figure00:13:05
of authority and place the other person00:13:07
in an inferior position he automatically00:13:10
well he doesn't like us we put the other00:13:12
person on the defensive and even if he00:13:14
doesn't say anything and accepts the00:13:15
criticism meekly it rankles when the00:13:18
husband at the bridge table says to his00:13:20
wife well my dear you bid that hand like00:13:22
a certified she might not say00:13:24
anything she might not say anything at00:13:26
the moment that is but she'll secretly00:13:29
pray for a miracle that would deliver a00:13:31
sawed-off shotgun into her hand the00:13:33
other players squirm an embarrassment00:13:35
and what does it accomplish as Junius00:13:37
wrote it behooves the minor critic who00:13:40
hunts for blemishes to be a little00:13:42
distrustful of his own sagacity00:13:44
the best rule to use when criticism00:13:46
Springs to your mind is to wait wait a00:13:49
while and try to look for the reasons00:13:51
behind the ACT you would criticize it's00:13:53
also a good time to ask oneself who am I00:13:55
to be criticizing others am I really all00:13:57
that great and pure and all-knowing and00:13:59
Perfect by all means wait until the heat00:14:02
of anger is dissipated this is one of00:14:04
the world's most difficult things to do00:14:05
and it takes a very mature person to00:14:07
master their wisdom and self-control to00:14:09
withhold criticism but it's their way to00:14:11
Greatness and one of the best known ways00:14:13
to earn the respect and or love of00:14:15
others people know when they've done00:14:17
something wrong or foolish and they00:14:18
usually know that you know it too and00:14:20
when you refrain from being critical00:14:22
they're grateful they respect you often00:14:24
does not they'll be much tougher on00:14:26
themselves and make a concerted effort00:14:28
to avoid making the same mistake again00:14:30
it's been said that the legitimate aim00:14:32
of criticism is to direct attention to00:14:34
the excellent the bad will dig its own00:14:36
grave and the imperfect May safely be00:14:39
left to that final neglect from which no00:14:41
amount of present undeserved popularity00:14:44
can Rescue It00:14:46
it's a good line to remember00:14:48
and now just a moment for this message00:14:52
as old Epictetus put it do not give00:14:55
sentence in another's tribunal until you00:14:58
have been yourself judged in the00:15:00
tribunal of Justice the key to00:15:02
overcoming the urge to criticize others00:15:05
is to wait wait a minute or an hour or a00:15:08
day or forever as though the American00:15:10
people have won themselves another first00:15:13
it's believed that the United States is00:15:15
now the blubber capital of the world00:15:17
someone has said that if through some00:15:19
magic all the excess weight of all our00:15:21
citizens were removed from their bodies00:15:23
and piled in one place it would reveal00:15:26
itself as a great glistening quaking00:15:28
Mountain about the size of San Gorgonio00:15:30
Mountain which Rises 1100:15:33
485 feet above the Mojave Desert in00:15:36
Southern California00:15:37
this mountain of ever would represent00:15:40
the millions of tons of food that we've00:15:43
put away beyond what we need for good00:15:45
health and good looking figures00:15:47
I spent a long weekend at a resort hotel00:15:49
near Miami Florida not long ago and00:15:52
sitting at the pool I looked around and00:15:54
marveled it looked for all the world00:15:56
like the sea lion house at an oceanarium00:15:58
it's amazing that human skin can stretch00:16:01
that far there are of course two great00:16:03
contributors to this sad condition one00:16:05
are high standard of living and our00:16:07
abundance of good food and two00:16:09
mechanization we don't walk anymore we00:16:11
drive even kids don't walk much anymore00:16:13
and adults are getting to the point00:16:15
where their legs are threatened with00:16:16
Extinction weak flabby almost vestigial00:16:20
things barely able to totter short00:16:22
distances under the abnormal weight00:16:24
pressing down upon them from above just00:16:27
as the man's life is automated so is the00:16:29
woman's much of her work is being done00:16:31
by pressing buttons or flicking switches00:16:33
she doesn't mix cake batter by hand or00:16:36
beat rugs or use a washboard or a broom00:16:38
or ring out and hang up clothes to dry00:16:40
and all of this is good and can add00:16:42
years to a life and keep her looking00:16:43
much younger and healthier if she00:16:45
doesn't00:16:46
kill herself years too soon or destroy00:16:48
her appears by becoming too fat00:16:51
a woman who is 10 pounds overweight is00:16:53
doing to herself exactly what a woman of00:16:56
normal weight would be doing if she got00:16:58
out of bed each morning and then picked00:16:59
up two five pound buckets of sand and00:17:02
then carried them with her every step00:17:03
she took until she felt exhausted into00:17:06
bed again at night and the strain on her00:17:08
heart on her poor feet and legs and00:17:10
muscles and tissues is the same too and00:17:13
10 pounds leads to 12 and then 15 and00:17:16
before you know it it's 50 if you don't00:17:18
do something about it00:17:19
and anybody man woman or child can lose00:17:21
weight any time he wants to all a person00:17:23
needs to do is to quit eating more food00:17:26
than the body needs for fuel walk more00:17:29
do more things calculated to burn up00:17:31
some of that stored blubber but of all00:17:33
above all stop eating so much00:17:35
and please don't ever pull that tired00:17:39
old line that goes I gain weight and I00:17:42
don't eat a thing00:17:43
there's still only one major cause of00:17:46
overweight and that's eating more fuel00:17:49
than our bodies burn00:17:52
and now00:17:53
just a moment for this message00:17:56
becoming overweight is not a normal part00:17:58
of the aging process and it makes no00:18:01
difference if all your ancestors were00:18:03
fat and all it does is make you age00:18:05
faster and die younger so don't do it00:18:09
thank you00:18:20
[Music]00:18:23
back in the days of Thomas Jefferson a00:18:26
person who had read 50 well-chosen books00:18:28
could consider himself well educated00:18:31
they give you an idea of how times have00:18:32
changed take the pride of the business00:18:34
executive today within the past two00:18:36
years more than one thousand books have00:18:38
been published on the subject of00:18:39
business alone to say nothing of the00:18:41
massive flow of magazines newsletters00:18:43
digests research report films tapes and00:18:47
other media one hundred years ago the00:18:49
largest College library at Harvard00:18:50
contained two hundred twelve thousand00:18:52
volumes the next largest largest at Yale00:18:55
had ninety five thousand today Harvard's00:18:58
Library contains 8 million books and00:19:00
Yale's more than 5 million it's00:19:02
estimated that some 2 000 odd pages of00:19:05
print are being produced each minute00:19:06
it's become a veritable Avalanche even00:19:09
assuming a man reads about three books a00:19:11
week during a reading lifetime of 5000:19:13
years he cannot possibly read more than00:19:16
1 25th of one percent of the world's00:19:19
books no matter how accessible they00:19:21
might be so what's the answer it's00:19:24
selectivity00:19:25
as we look at the sum of the world's00:19:26
knowledge we see that the most valuable00:19:28
thing in education can give us is Not00:19:30
Mere learning for that must always be00:19:32
severely limited but judgment which00:19:35
allows us to choose and select and00:19:36
compare and fit together the fragments00:19:38
of knowledge we're able to accumulate00:19:40
the kind of knowledge we want and need00:19:42
for whatever it is we want to learn and00:19:43
do00:19:44
part of the solution lies in improves00:19:46
storage and retrieval systems00:19:48
computerized catalogs microfilms00:19:51
electronic indices00:19:52
using modern methods a printed page can00:19:55
be reduced in size to 1 1000 so that the00:19:58
entire book can be printed on an00:20:00
ordinary catalog card and that's only00:20:02
the beginning devices now exist that can00:20:05
reduce a Pages area as much as a million00:20:07
times so that a whole sheet of data can00:20:09
be put onto a micro dot small enough to00:20:13
be pasted inconspicuously on top of an00:20:15
ordinary comma and in the near future00:20:18
using an electron microscope and Tiny00:20:20
dots of metal film we'll be able to00:20:22
store one thousand books of 500 pages00:20:25
each on an area no larger than the00:20:27
proverbial head of a pin soon micro00:20:29
libraries will become feasible all the00:20:31
world's books can then be put on a00:20:33
desktop in a single cabinet the living00:20:35
room or Den archive will become00:20:37
commonplace but the problem of time00:20:39
remains even if you had all the books in00:20:41
your living room reading in would still00:20:43
be impossible so no matter what system00:20:46
comes along it's still a matter of00:20:47
selection it's still a matter of finding00:20:49
what you're interested in and then00:20:51
getting the best books and other00:20:52
material available for your subject00:20:55
this also demands a kind of ruthlessness00:20:57
the average person finds hard to muster00:20:59
if you understand it's a problem at all00:21:01
he was forcing himself not to read any00:21:03
part of the Mountain of material that00:21:05
does not contribute to his real interest00:21:07
and that's tough00:21:08
and now a moment for this message00:21:12
I don't mean that we should no longer00:21:13
read for Pure enjoyment far from it but00:21:16
since we can read only the barest00:21:18
fraction of the material available we00:21:20
need to learn to be highly selective if00:21:22
we're interested at all in keeping00:21:24
abreast of the times thank you00:21:27
has been said that every man is the son00:21:30
of his own works00:21:31
one of my favorite poets is Edgar Allan00:21:34
Poe in his own life was as bizarre as00:21:36
his tales his own life story is the00:21:38
story of an author of fantastic00:21:40
imagination a brilliant editor and00:21:42
critic a poet tender and cruel an00:21:45
alcoholic Gambler and debt-ridden00:21:48
neurotic00:21:49
posed parents were strolling players00:21:51
both of whom died before he was two00:21:53
years old leaving three penniless00:21:55
children William Rosalie and Edgar00:21:57
William became insane and Rosalie died00:22:00
young far more fortunate Edgar was00:22:02
adopted by a wealthy Merchant John Allen00:22:05
from whom he took his second name heir00:22:08
to a fortune he was brought up in00:22:09
opulent tradition and at the age of 1700:22:12
was sent to the University of Virginia00:22:14
it was there that Poe came into his00:22:16
tragic self he drank and gambled himself00:22:19
hopelessly to debt he was withdrawn from00:22:21
school disowned by his fostered parents00:22:23
and because he now was no longer heir to00:22:26
the Allen Fortune his fiancee's parents00:22:28
persuaded their daughter Elmira to marry00:22:31
a more affluent man after a two-year00:22:34
enlistment in the Army Poe moved to00:22:35
Baltimore to live with Aunt Maria Claire00:22:38
and her daughter Virginia there he00:22:40
somehow wrangled enough money to pay a00:22:42
Boston printer to publish some of his00:22:43
poems at the same time maneuvered00:22:45
himself into an appointment at West00:22:47
Point the publishing of his polls was a00:22:49
literary and financial flop the00:22:51
appointment of disaster00:22:53
after one year he was dismissed from the00:22:55
academy for gross neglective Duty and00:22:57
disobedience00:22:58
posed marriage to his cousin Virginia00:23:00
was equally a disaster to begin with he00:23:02
was 26 and an alcoholic while she was a00:23:05
pale and sickly child of 13. the poor00:23:07
girl though she witnessed some of her00:23:09
husband's Finest Hours fell victim to00:23:11
most of his worst his Reckless living00:23:13
and squandering brought her mostly00:23:15
poverty and suffering for eight years00:23:17
and finally death do it was said to00:23:19
malnutrition00:23:20
the bright spot supposed life were his00:23:23
days as a magazine editor contributor00:23:25
and critic as editor and critic for the00:23:27
southern literary messenger he00:23:29
brilliantly tore apart many of his00:23:30
contemporaries and their insipid works00:23:32
his own crowning work The Fall of the00:23:34
House of Usher was published the bottled00:23:37
in debt cropped up again and again00:23:39
almost as hurdles between a series of00:23:41
magazine associations00:23:43
the highlight of this period was that00:23:44
publication and enthusiastic reception00:23:46
of his great poem The Raven Poe became a00:23:49
social lion but financially he received00:23:52
only about ten dollars for the work00:23:54
his tragic end started on a note of00:23:56
Happiness learning that Elmira his00:23:58
youthful sweetheart had been widowed he00:24:00
proposed to her and she accepted happily00:24:02
enroute to Richmond for the wedding he00:24:05
stopped off at Baltimore00:24:07
and just00:24:08
disappeared00:24:11
and now00:24:12
a moment for this man nobody knows what00:24:14
happened to Poe in Baltimore he simply00:24:16
disappeared and was found a few days00:24:18
later in a pitiful drug condition it was00:24:21
all over he died of a violent brain00:24:23
fever and John Dunn the great English00:24:26
poet and clergyman who lived at the turn00:24:28
of the 17th century wrote our creatures00:24:31
are our thoughts creatures that are born00:24:33
Giants my thoughts reach all comprehend00:24:36
all inexplicable mystery I their creator00:24:40
am in a close prison in a sick bed00:24:41
anywhere and any one of my creatures my00:24:44
thoughts is with the sun and Beyond the00:24:46
sun overtakes the sun and overgoes the00:24:49
sun in one pace One Step everywhere00:24:53
a few of us appreciate the great gift of00:24:55
thought in an instant you can be00:24:57
anywhere experience anything through the00:24:59
miracle of your thought a man thousands00:25:01
of miles from home can in his mind be00:25:03
with his family in a millisecond as John00:25:05
Dunn indicated we're in a close prison00:25:08
in our bodies and restricted to be in00:25:10
one place at a time physically even in a00:25:13
sick bed but any one of our thoughts can00:25:15
be with the sun and Beyond can go00:25:17
anywhere experience anything the more00:25:19
you think about it the more magical it00:25:21
becomes I think some people have a more00:25:24
highly developed imagination than others00:25:26
as children we all have the wondrous00:25:28
ability to bring interest adventure and00:25:29
a whole world of excitement into our00:25:31
lives have never stood just outside the00:25:33
door of a small child's room and00:25:34
listened to him or her at play it's00:25:36
wonderful jabbering away to his00:25:38
imaginary Playmate or teddy bear or doll00:25:40
and the sound effects of small boy can00:25:42
make as he plays with his toys tell you00:25:44
what world he's living in at the moment00:25:46
as we grow older we tend to put away the00:25:49
exciting world of imagination except for00:25:51
the highly creative person he keeps it00:25:52
alive changes but remains a vital part00:25:55
of his existence00:25:56
a vivid imagination can be a blessing to00:25:58
the sick and incapacitated they can00:26:00
travel to the ends of the Earth with00:26:01
complete enjoyment with none of the00:26:03
exasperations and lost baggage and00:26:05
language problems and waiting boredom00:26:08
that is so often a part of real travel00:26:09
people can be enjoyed without argument00:26:11
or disappointment it's reported that00:26:14
disadvantaged children often live so00:26:16
much in their imaginations that as they00:26:17
grow older they fail to take advantage00:26:19
of opportunities which exist in the real00:26:21
world they wake up and so Bleak and00:26:23
forbidding an environment that they00:26:24
immediately Escape into the world of00:26:26
fantasy and remain there during all of00:26:28
their waking hours00:26:30
man would not be man if his dreams did00:26:32
not exceed his grasp and the dream the00:26:35
imagined Better World it becomes a goal00:26:37
instead of mere fantasy and Escape can00:26:39
and does become the real world00:26:41
it's the imagined world of the future00:26:43
that keeps the student at his books the00:26:45
Workman is job the wife at her housework00:26:47
it's what makes the driver Mount the cab00:26:49
of his truck and a surgeon scrub up for00:26:52
another operation and the salesman make00:26:54
another call the imagination is man's00:26:56
most precious gift and it's with us00:26:59
every day of Our Lives00:27:01
maybe that's why00:27:03
we sort of tend to take it for granted00:27:07
now just a moment for this message00:27:10
our creatures are our thoughts creatures00:27:13
that are born Giants my thoughts reach00:27:15
all comprehend all inexplicable mystery00:27:18
and what you find yourself imagining00:27:21
most00:27:22
is the key to your future do you ever00:27:24
get mixed up with the pronouns I and me00:27:26
millions of people do you find yourself00:27:28
saying why don't you come with John and00:27:30
I when you should say why don't you come00:27:32
with John and me if you find yourself00:27:34
making this common error and others in00:27:36
English let me recommend a good book for00:27:39
you written by Bergen Evans the country00:27:41
is one of the country's best known00:27:42
Authorities on English and published by00:27:44
random house is titled comfortable words00:27:47
on this particular problem Bergen Evans00:27:49
has this to say we often hear he gave it00:27:52
to John and I the grossness of the air00:27:55
is made clear if the recipients are put00:27:57
into separate sentences he gave it to I00:28:00
would surely great on any air the00:28:02
construction which is common among the00:28:04
half-educated but is never heard among00:28:06
the educated or the uneducated seems to00:28:09
have had its origin in a fear of the00:28:11
word me in combination with another00:28:13
pronoun possibly those who use thee gave00:28:17
it to John and I construction had been00:28:19
furiously rebuked or savagely derided in00:28:21
their childhood for saying John and me00:28:23
did this or that someone shouted John00:28:25
and I at them or made them stay after00:28:28
school and write John and I on the00:28:30
Blackboard 200 times and John and I at00:28:32
thereupon became in all circumstances00:28:34
certainly many middle class Americans00:28:37
seem afraid of the word me some Panic00:28:40
stricken say he gave it to John and I00:28:42
other use the equally ghastly less00:28:44
incorrect but more affected and00:28:46
self-conscious he gave it to John and00:28:48
myself00:28:49
so then the trick is if you're troubled00:28:51
by this one to say the sentence first00:28:53
mentally and leave the other person out00:28:55
of it to yourself say he gave it to me00:28:58
then aloud say he gave it to John and me00:29:02
another common error is found in the00:29:04
misuse of the contraction don't it00:29:06
stands for the words do not and it is00:29:09
considered substandard to use it for the00:29:11
words does not if you mean does not say00:29:14
doesn't as in the sentence it doesn't00:29:16
make any difference you wouldn't say it00:29:18
do not make any difference00:29:20
and did you ever wonder why the word00:29:22
Mayday is used as the international00:29:24
distress call it comes from two French00:29:27
words May Day meaning help me00:29:29
in other words frequently misused is00:29:31
livid livid and Vivid are almost exact00:29:34
opposites yet they're frequently00:29:36
confused livid is a particularly00:29:38
gruesome shade of blue a lead and gray00:29:41
tinged with blue it's the color of00:29:43
corpses and bruises00:29:44
etymologically it's related to Lavender00:29:46
and synonyms are pale Juan Asian Vivid00:29:49
means vigorous intense brilliant bright00:29:51
colored it comes from the Latin word00:29:53
meaning to live and it's related to00:29:55
vivacious and its synonyms are clear00:29:57
Lucid bright if you like the English00:30:00
language get the book comfortable words00:30:02
by Bergen Evans make sure the kids read00:30:04
it too it can do a lot for their grades00:30:06
in school00:30:07
and now a moment for this message00:30:10
to be able to00:30:11
effectively communicate with others is a00:30:14
Priceless asset and is one any person00:30:16
can acquire do you know that goodbye is00:30:19
a slurred contraction of God be with you00:30:22
once upon a time there was a man who00:30:24
felt he'd reached the end of his rope it00:30:26
seemed that all the interest that00:30:27
suddenly vanished from his life00:30:29
his creative Wells had seemingly dried00:30:31
up he still had his work but it00:30:33
certainly seemed meaningless to him even00:30:35
his family in his home receded Darkly in00:30:37
his mind and finally nearing the point00:30:40
of desperation he went to see his old00:30:41
friend the family doctor00:30:43
the doctor listened to his story saw the00:30:45
depths of his depression and then asked00:30:47
him when you were a child what did you00:30:49
like to do best00:30:50
I'd like to visit the seashore all right00:30:53
the doctor said you must do exactly as I00:30:55
tell you I want you to spend all day00:30:57
tomorrow at the shore find a lonely00:31:00
stretch of Beach and spend the entire00:31:01
day there from nine in the morning until00:31:03
six in the evening take nothing to read00:31:05
and do nothing calculated to distract00:31:07
you in any way I'm going to give you00:31:10
four prescriptions in order00:31:12
take the first nine the second at 1200:31:15
noon the third at three o'clock and the00:31:17
last at six don't look at them now wait00:31:19
until you arrive at the shore tomorrow00:31:21
morning00:31:22
well the man promised he'd take the00:31:23
doctor's advice and the next morning a00:31:25
little before nine he parked his car on00:31:27
a lonely stretch of Beach there was a00:31:29
strong wind blowing in from the sea and00:31:31
the surf was high and pounding00:31:33
he walked to a sand dune near the00:31:35
seeding Surf and sat down he took out00:31:38
prescription number one opened it and00:31:40
read it it said listen00:31:43
that was all that was written on it the00:31:44
one word listen and so for three hours00:31:47
that's all he did he listened to the00:31:49
sound of the buffeting Wind and The00:31:51
Lonely cries of the girls he listened to00:31:53
the sound of the booming surf he sat00:31:56
quietly and he listened at noon he read00:31:59
the second prescription it said simply00:32:01
reach back00:32:02
and so for the next three hours he did00:32:04
just that he let his mind go back as far00:32:07
as it could go and he thought of all the00:32:09
incidents of his life he could remember00:32:10
the Happy Times the good times the00:32:13
struggles and the successes00:32:15
at three o'clock he tore open the third00:32:17
prescription it read re-examine your00:32:20
motives00:32:21
and this took so much intense thought00:32:23
and concentration that the remaining00:32:25
three hours slipped quickly by for three00:32:28
hours he re-examined his motives his00:32:30
reasons for living and moving closer to00:32:32
fulfillment he clarified and restated00:32:35
his goals and at six o'clock under a00:32:38
gray darkening sky and with a taste of00:32:40
salt spray on the Wind he read the00:32:43
fourth and final prescription it read00:32:45
write your worries in the sand00:32:47
there had been one thing that had been00:32:49
worrying in particularly so he walked00:32:51
through the hard sand and with a stick00:32:53
wrote this worry in the sand and stood00:32:55
looking at it for a moment then as he00:32:57
walked toward what his car was parked he00:32:59
looked back and saw that the incoming00:33:01
tide had already erased his worry00:33:05
he then got in his car and drove00:33:07
Homeward and now a moment for this00:33:10
message my old friend Norman Vincent00:33:12
Peale told me that story many years ago00:33:14
about the man the seashore and the four00:33:16
prescriptions listen reach back00:33:20
re-examine your motives and then write00:33:22
your worries in the sand00:33:25
money00:33:28
it's great stuff00:33:30
but does it make you happy00:33:32
I read an interesting story in Forbes00:33:34
Magazine about three young men all in00:33:36
their middle and late 30s who had formed00:33:38
a successful Electronics firm and sold00:33:40
out to a much larger company for several00:33:42
millions of dollars making each of the00:33:44
three quite rich00:33:45
of them was asked by the Forbes reporter00:33:47
has this wealth and the Leisure the00:33:50
opportunity to now do anything you want00:33:52
to do made you happy in each case the00:33:55
answer was00:33:56
no00:33:57
no I know that sounds ridiculous to many00:33:59
but it's true all the same the proof00:34:01
that it is true is that each of the00:34:03
three young millionaires soon went right00:34:04
back to work to start all over again one00:34:07
of them in the Strait of Thomas Edison00:34:08
sleeps in his lab on an air mattress so00:34:10
as to never be far away from his work00:34:12
they all tried the life of leisure and00:34:14
they all gave it up as an unhappy00:34:17
unfulfilling unrewarding and boring form00:34:19
of existence they found that they were00:34:21
happiest when they were working hardest00:34:23
to achieve the success and riches they00:34:25
finally won and then didn't want one of00:34:27
them said that he and his wife decorated00:34:29
their home and spent too much money00:34:30
doing it another sailed a new boat to00:34:32
Europe in the transatlantic race another00:34:34
bought an expensive sports car but soon00:34:37
they were all back at work three out of00:34:39
three a hundred percent it should tell00:34:40
us something it reminded me again of00:34:43
Irving Crystal's comment on the New York00:34:44
Times magazine he said being frustrated00:34:46
is disagreeable but the real disasters00:34:49
in life begin when you get what you want00:34:51
he was referring to something quite00:34:53
different but the same philosophy all00:34:55
too often applies to a person and his00:34:58
goals the other night at a dinner party00:35:00
I met an old friend whom I hadn't seen00:35:02
in some time00:35:03
he had recently retired and it's quite00:35:05
well to do financially I asked him how00:35:07
he likes his retirement and he said it's00:35:10
awful we've gone all over the country00:35:12
fishing the rest of the time I've been00:35:14
working in my garden and I'm going crazy00:35:16
without enough to do I want a job I'll00:35:18
even work for nothing later my wife told00:35:20
me that his wife had told her privately00:35:22
that if her husband doesn't find00:35:23
something soon that can occupy four or00:35:25
five hours a day of his time he wasn't00:35:27
the only one that was going to lose his00:35:28
mind she was going to lose hers too00:35:30
man strives all his working career for00:35:33
leisure and Financial Security and when00:35:35
he gets it he's miserable00:35:37
with the three young millionaires it00:35:38
wasn't so bad they could go right back00:35:40
to work again with my retired friend00:35:42
that isn't so easy00:35:44
the answer is to understand in advance00:35:47
that we need something interesting in00:35:49
which we can busy ourselves for a good00:35:52
part of our days time off is fine if you00:35:54
have something to come back to something00:35:56
that needs to be done and what you enjoy00:35:58
doing understanding this in advance we00:36:01
can plan in advance we can make sure we00:36:02
develop an avocation that will keep us00:36:04
in the Stream of things keep us busy as00:36:06
much as we want to be busy after we00:36:09
retire the story of the Three young00:36:11
millionaires proves we need it00:36:13
and now a moment for this message00:36:16
so what's your advocation what are you00:36:18
going to be able to lose yourself in00:36:19
when you have more time on your hands00:36:22
better start planning for it now lease00:36:24
your time and people just don't seem to00:36:26
get on well together00:36:28
thank you00:36:29
did you know that a famous agnostic00:36:31
inspired the writing of one of the most00:36:33
famous biblical novels of all time00:36:36
one evening in September 1870 two men00:36:39
riding a train across Indiana struck up00:36:42
a conversation soon they began arguing00:36:44
about the inspiration of the Bible and00:36:46
the message of Jesus Christ00:36:48
Robert G Ingersoll internationally00:36:50
famous is a challenger of scripture's00:36:52
message was trying to convince General00:36:54
Lewis Wallace that he didn't know what00:36:56
he was talking about00:36:57
General Wallace better known as Lou the00:37:00
indiana-born officer fought through the00:37:02
whole of the Civil War he participated00:37:04
many lesser engagements and then took00:37:06
part in the bloody Battle of Shadow00:37:07
later he prepared the defenses for00:37:10
Cincinnati and was made commander of the00:37:12
eighth Army Corps after hostility seized00:37:14
he resumed his legal practice but the00:37:16
lawyer and Veteran of many battles was00:37:18
unable to cope with a brilliant Robert G00:37:20
Ingersoll he felt frustrated and00:37:22
defeated when he parted company with the00:37:24
noted agnostic having failed to make any00:37:26
dent in the network of arguments with00:37:28
which Ingersoll defended himself from00:37:30
The Challenge of faith as a result Lou00:37:33
Wallace went home determined to write a00:37:36
novel that would serve as a powerful00:37:37
argument for the Divinity of Christ00:37:39
finished while he was serving as00:37:41
governor of the territory of New Mexico00:37:43
it was entitled Ben Hur a tale of the00:37:46
Christ one of the most popular books of00:37:48
this Century it presents the message of00:37:50
the New Testament within a framework of00:37:52
vigorous action that involves believable00:37:54
characters Ingersoll didn't live to00:37:56
realize it but the story his argument00:37:58
inspired became widely read even in00:38:01
regions of the United States where all00:38:03
novels had previously been frowned upon00:38:04
as immoral the book spread all over the00:38:07
world it was translated into dozens of00:38:09
languages and when Lou Waller saw the00:38:11
set for the Broadway version of his book00:38:13
in 1900 he exclaimed my god did I set00:38:16
all this in motion that Chariot race00:38:18
which was famous on the stage was also00:38:21
the high point of the two Motion00:38:23
Pictures made from the book One in 192700:38:26
and another in 1959. the latest one cost00:38:29
15 million dollars to produce and00:38:31
cleaned up at the box office within00:38:33
eight years of the time it was published00:38:35
Ben Hur sold over 500 000 copies unheard00:38:38
of in those days it later so 5 million00:38:40
copies and is still available in a00:38:42
number of Editions but it wasn't just a00:38:44
case of a general hitting it lucky with00:38:46
his first book Lou Wallace had always00:38:48
written he began his first book The Fair00:38:50
God a tale of Cortez and the conquest of00:38:53
Mexico and he was just 18 years of age00:38:54
later as ambassador to Turkey he wrote00:38:57
his last book The Prince of India at the00:39:00
age of 66. well that's quite a story00:39:03
not just been her but the way it00:39:06
happened to be written and what happened00:39:07
to it afterwards all because of a heated00:39:10
argument on a train00:39:13
now a moment for this message00:39:16
yes the story Ben Hur became one of the00:39:19
world's all-time bestsellers but it00:39:21
doesn't hold a candle to the old book00:39:23
itself from which it got its Story the00:39:26
Bible is still the number one bestseller00:39:28
of all time00:39:30
the truth is that it's happened to00:39:32
thousands of people in thousands of00:39:33
different situations00:39:35
but the man who made the story famous in00:39:36
this country at least was Dr Russell00:39:38
Herman Conwell who lived from 1843 to00:39:41
1925 and who by telling the story from00:39:43
one end of the world to the other raised00:39:45
six million dollars with which he00:39:47
founded Temple University in00:39:49
Philadelphia and thus fulfilled his00:39:51
dream of building university for poor00:39:53
but deserving young men Dr Conwell told00:39:56
the story Acres of diamonds more than00:39:57
six thousand times and attracted great00:39:59
audiences wherever he appeared I'm sure00:40:01
you're as familiar with the story as I00:40:03
am but it isn't a story that's so00:40:05
important in itself and you're probably00:40:07
wondering if I'll ever get around to00:40:08
telling it important thing is that we00:40:10
apply the principle of the story to our00:40:12
own lives the story is about a farmer00:40:14
who lived in Africa at the time diamonds00:40:16
were discovered there when a visitor to00:40:18
his farm told him of the millions being00:40:20
made by men who were discovering diamond00:40:22
mines he promptly sold his farm and left00:40:25
to search for diamonds himself he00:40:27
wandered it all over the continent found00:40:29
no diamonds and as this story has it00:40:31
finally penniles in poor health and00:40:33
despondent threw himself into a river00:40:35
and drowned00:40:36
well long before this the man who had00:40:38
bought his farm found a large unusual00:40:41
looking Stone in the creek bed which ran00:40:43
through the farm and put it on his00:40:45
mantle as a curio enter here the same00:40:47
visitor who had told the original farmer00:40:49
about the diamond discoveries he00:40:51
examined the stone and told the new00:40:53
owner that he had discovered one of the00:40:55
largest diamonds ever found00:40:58
and that it was worth a king's Ransom00:41:01
to his surprise the farmer told him the00:41:03
entire Farm was covered with stones of00:41:05
that kind and to make a long story short00:41:07
if it isn't already too late00:41:09
the farm which the first farmer had sold00:41:12
so that he could go look for diamonds00:41:13
turned out to be one of the richest00:41:15
diamond mines in the world the point Dr00:41:17
Conwell made was that the first farmer00:41:19
had owned Acres of diamonds but it made00:41:21
the mistake of not examining what he had00:41:24
before he ran off to something he hoped00:41:26
would prove to be better he would then00:41:28
point out that each of us is like that00:41:29
First Farmer no matter where we live or00:41:31
what we do we're surrounded by Acres of00:41:33
diamonds if we'll simply look for them00:41:35
like the Curious appearing Stones which00:41:38
covered the farm they might not appear00:41:40
to be diamonds at first glance but a00:41:43
little study a deeper examination and00:41:46
some polishing will usually reveal our00:41:49
opportunities and perhaps uncover our00:41:51
own hidden talents and abilities and00:41:54
genius for what they really are we just00:41:57
haven't been looking for them00:41:58
and now in just a moment I'll be back00:42:03
Acres of diamonds it's a good story to00:42:06
tell the youngsters over the dinner00:42:07
table it's the kind of story we all need00:42:10
to remember from time to time and look00:42:12
for our home00:42:13
thank you00:42:15
let me give you a little known fact00:42:16
today that will increase your00:42:17
Effectiveness in anything you do it00:42:19
applies to doing a job making more money00:42:21
playing golf cooking raising children00:42:23
teaching anything at all00:42:25
and while this has long been known by00:42:28
the most successful people of the world00:42:29
it seems to have escaped the great00:42:31
majority00:42:33
whatever it is that you would like to do00:42:35
better act as though you're a Top Flight expert00:42:38
at it and if you continue to play this00:42:39
part long enough you will become an00:42:41
expert when Arnold Palmer was 10 years00:42:43
old and on his way to becoming the00:42:45
world's greatest golfer of his time he00:42:47
used to pretend that he was playing in00:42:48
National tournaments he would even00:42:50
pretend to be the sports commentator00:42:52
announcing that the champion Arnold00:42:54
Palmer was now getting ready to tr00:42:56
you can take a great mini strokes off00:42:58
your golf game simply by pretending00:43:00
you're playing in a great tournament and00:43:01
that every time you swing a pot you're00:43:03
surrounded by a large gallery and the00:43:05
television cameras you'll find that you00:43:07
take more time line up your shots better00:43:09
and swing more like the pros and less00:43:11
like the duffers00:43:13
if you can get a mental image of the00:43:15
person you would most like to become00:43:16
begin now to act as that person would00:43:19
act in everything you do gradually00:43:21
imperceptibly you will actually become00:43:23
that person it goes back to what the00:43:25
great German poet and philosopher Gerta00:43:28
once said before you can do something00:43:30
you must first be something before you00:43:33
can do what you would most like to do00:43:35
you must first become the person who00:43:36
could do it a woman cooking dinner has00:43:39
only to act like a great chef to turn00:43:41
out a better meal the student who begins00:43:43
to act like a top student will begin to00:43:45
get better grades you can even look much00:43:47
better by simply acting like the person00:43:49
you would most like to look like and be00:43:52
like00:43:54
the secret is to get and hold fast in00:43:57
your mind the mental image of the person00:44:00
you would most like to be00:44:03
then in every situation you act and talk00:44:06
as you feel that person would you make00:44:08
the kind of decisions you think that00:44:10
person would this is the way to00:44:12
constantly grow into a better more00:44:14
effective person00:44:16
you immediately begin to act with more00:44:18
confidence and confidence is the first00:44:20
step to accomplishment00:44:22
as your accomplishments begin to grow00:44:24
which they most certainly will real00:44:26
confidence slowly takes the place of the00:44:29
part you've been playing00:44:31
now your life will not be transformed00:44:34
overnight there'll be no certain00:44:35
Miracles perhaps but steadily day by day00:44:38
you'll grow into the image you hold in00:44:41
your mind if you doubt this00:44:43
try it for 30 days and Watch What00:44:45
Happens you've got nothing to lose the00:44:48
the time is going to pass anyway00:44:50
why not put it to work becoming the00:44:53
person you most want to become it's the00:44:56
trick of the experts in every field00:44:59
and now just a moment for this message00:45:03
life is much too short to live fearfully00:45:06
to settle for less than the best that's00:45:07
in us we can become only what we expect00:45:10
of ourselves00:45:12
we must act apart before it could become00:45:15
real00:45:16
as a marriage counselor who's had a lot00:45:18
of success in Saving marriages on the00:45:20
brink of disillusion by suggesting that00:45:22
whenever one of the partners starts an00:45:24
argument00:45:25
the other partner should make him or her00:45:27
laugh00:45:28
real trouble begins when laughter goes00:45:31
out of a marriage he said00:45:32
one husband says how in the world can I00:45:34
get her to laugh she hasn't laughed in00:45:35
three years00:45:37
and so we asked him what made your last00:45:38
three years ago and the husband thought00:45:40
for a moment he said I think I fell on00:45:42
the ice in front of the house00:45:44
then you've got the answer whenever she00:45:46
starts or starts an argument fall down00:45:48
and make her laugh well it's made they00:45:50
both laugh of course and the doctor went00:45:51
on to suggest that the husband think of00:45:53
anything that might be silly enough to00:45:55
get them both laughing stick celery in00:45:57
your ears anything he said00:45:59
I remember many years ago we were00:46:01
rehearsing a dramatic radio Series in00:46:03
Chicago and the rehearsal had been going00:46:04
very badly the script wasn't the best a00:46:07
couple of the actors and actresses00:46:09
weren't happy with their parts the00:46:10
director was getting edgy and just as we00:46:12
were about to moodly try to do the dress00:46:14
rehearsal since time was slipping away00:46:16
from us one of the actors went out of00:46:18
the studio for a moment and returned00:46:19
suddenly with loud moans staggering00:46:21
crazily his eyes crossed and with the00:46:23
ends of a pencil protruding from his00:46:26
ears he'd broken a long yellow pencil in00:46:28
half and instructed broken ends into his00:46:30
ears from one ear the end where the00:46:33
Eraser stuck out and the other that00:46:34
pointed in Grizzly as the site was00:46:37
it really made it start to laugh it00:46:40
through us including the director the00:46:42
engineers the sound effects people and00:46:43
the musicians in the fits of00:46:45
uncontrolled laughter until we were00:46:46
helpless with tears running down our00:46:48
face from that point on we were all00:46:50
right and the show is one of the best we00:46:52
did that year00:46:54
laughter is wonderfully therapeutic if00:46:57
your kids get into an argument give them00:46:59
each a cloth or paper towel and put them00:47:01
on opposite sides of the same window00:47:03
with instructions to clean it no matter00:47:05
how angry they may have been just00:47:06
looking through the glass at each other00:47:08
cleaning the window we'll soon have them00:47:09
howling with laughter the argument00:47:11
forgotten there was a doctor who made it00:47:14
a practice to look for pictures in00:47:15
magazines and newspapers of people00:47:17
laughing laughing hard he cut them out00:47:19
and pasted them in a scrapbook and when00:47:22
the book was full he took it to the00:47:24
hospital and let the nurses pass it00:47:25
around the wards you can't look at other00:47:28
people laughing without laughing00:47:29
yourself and the effect on the patients00:47:31
and nurses was wonderful00:47:33
perhaps this is why good comedians are00:47:36
among the highest paid or the world's00:47:37
performers people need to laugh you00:47:40
can't feel worried or depressed when00:47:42
you're convulsed with laughter it seems00:47:44
to have a beneficial effect on the human00:47:46
mind and body where the only creatures00:47:49
on Earth who can laugh and the only ones00:47:51
with enough problems to need to laugh00:47:54
regularly00:47:56
and now just a moment for this message00:48:00
I remember reading about a husband who00:48:02
when he had a nerve-wracking day at the00:48:05
office would come home with his head on00:48:07
backwards if his wife had had a bad day00:48:09
she'd wear her apron backwards in either00:48:11
case it would start them laughing and00:48:12
clear the air thank you00:48:14
in a large Western company the Vice00:48:16
President in charge of sales retired00:48:18
everybody in the sales force assumed00:48:21
this juicy vacancy in the vice00:48:22
presidency would go to their senior00:48:24
salesman let's call him Tom who had been00:48:27
with the firm 25 years and the one man00:48:29
most certain that the job would go to00:48:31
Tom was Tom himself in fact he'd been00:48:34
counting on that job for five years00:48:36
since he had first realized his boss was00:48:38
planning on retiring and for the past00:48:40
two years Tom had been thinking about it00:48:42
he told his wife and children their00:48:44
friends and neighbors and his friends in00:48:46
the sales force the job meant a00:48:48
substantial raise in pay and Tom and his00:48:50
wife had been planning things they could00:48:51
do with the extra income for the past00:48:53
three months they'd been pouring over00:48:55
travel folders planning a trip to the00:48:57
Orient00:48:58
so when Tom was called into the00:49:00
president's office on the morning00:49:01
following the retirement party for the00:49:02
former vice president he was wearing his00:49:04
best suit and a smile to match00:49:07
what he had no way of knowing was that00:49:09
the company president was facing the00:49:11
kind of situation that makes company00:49:12
presidents worth every penny of their00:49:14
excellent incomes he had an Armageddon00:49:16
on his hands after he had winced at the00:49:18
cheerful good morning and Dapper00:49:19
appearance of his senior sales when he00:49:21
looked him straight in the eyes and said00:49:23
Tom I have to tell you that the00:49:24
executive committee has awarded the00:49:26
position of Vice President in charge of00:49:28
sales to Bill Smith00:49:31
well they followed a vast deep silence00:49:34
they could have been in a diving belt at00:49:36
the bottom of the Marianas Trench00:49:38
after two or three horse croaking starts00:49:40
Tom Vani managed to protest but Bill has00:49:43
been with the company five years I've00:49:45
been here 25. well enough of that facing00:49:47
the other men of the sales force and00:49:49
going home to face the family was a00:49:51
an Armageddon or two for Tom00:49:54
but it finally dawned on him in the00:49:56
weeks and months that followed that he00:49:59
had confused seniority with00:50:01
accomplishment00:50:02
Tom didn't really have 25 years00:50:05
experience with the company he had one00:50:07
year's experience repeated 25 times00:50:10
Bill Smith in just five years had far00:50:12
out in distance Tom and growth knowledge00:50:14
and sales00:50:16
while Tom was putting time in bill was00:50:19
putting in everything he had and now a00:50:22
young man but with his head crammed with00:50:24
detailed information on every phase of00:50:25
the company's operation with great plans00:50:28
for the future with five years of00:50:30
outstanding sales behind him Bill Smith00:50:32
found himself vice president in charge00:50:34
of sales00:50:35
the executive committee had made a wise00:50:38
decision it was interested in the growth00:50:40
of the company not Tom's planned trip to00:50:43
the Orient00:50:44
sad story00:50:46
said for whom00:50:48
Tom could have had that job00:50:50
he even had a 20-year Head Start00:50:53
he just didn't plan for it00:50:56
and now a moment for this message you00:50:59
know as Albert Einstein discovered time00:51:00
is relative it's only valued to us00:51:03
depends upon what we do while it's00:51:06
passing time means nothing at all to a00:51:08
stone or a fence post it can mean a00:51:11
great deal to a human being00:51:13
thank you once upon a time they evolved00:51:16
upon this planet an organism that was00:51:18
ill-suited for survival it could not run00:51:21
fast enough to escape its enemies if00:51:23
caught its teeth and Claws were small00:51:25
protection it was too big to hide under00:51:27
a leaf and too weak to burrow deeply00:51:29
into the ground00:51:30
to survive it took refuge in caves for a00:51:33
fire at the entrance kept Predators at00:51:35
Bay if the fire ran out of fuel this00:51:37
creature could hurl rocks unless drive00:51:40
all but the most determined enemies away00:51:42
its security was measured by the amount00:51:44
of firewood it could accumulate and the00:51:46
number of rocks it could gather and00:51:48
store in a cave against the Terrors of00:51:50
the night00:51:51
now you see this was a very important00:51:53
sort of thing all other creatures grew00:51:55
bigger teeth or learned to run faster00:51:57
alone among all the creatures on Earth00:51:59
the one we're describing turn to things00:52:01
for its survival00:52:03
this was in the end to make all the00:52:05
difference after a while this creature00:52:07
learned to cultivate some edible plants00:52:09
to supplement the food he could get by00:52:10
gathering and hunting growing food was00:52:13
at best uncertain and in any event00:52:15
depended on the seasons which could not00:52:17
be controlled so the creature began to00:52:19
store its Surplus Foods his security00:52:21
against the vagaries of nature was00:52:23
measured by how much he could grow and00:52:25
how much he could store00:52:27
his feeling for being at least partly in00:52:29
control of his Destiny was based on the00:52:31
Gathering of things well-being was00:52:33
measured quantitatively the more the00:52:35
better from the very beginning he was00:52:37
motivated by fear fear of pain fear of00:52:40
death fear that there wouldn't be enough00:52:43
time this creature's activities produced00:52:45
so much that it became more convenient00:52:47
to represent the accumulation of things00:52:49
by other things smaller and easier to00:52:51
carry or to exchange00:52:53
these symbols although intrinsically of00:52:56
no value assume the same value as things00:52:58
and Men or at least most men became00:53:01
engaged in the acquisition and00:53:02
accumulation of the symbols of things00:53:04
they did this even when they no longer00:53:07
had any need for them00:53:08
the symbols were the surrogates for the00:53:10
Rocks piled in the Cave against the00:53:12
coming of the night think of this system00:53:14
as being reinforced over and over00:53:16
through hundreds of generations and00:53:17
thousands of years through social00:53:19
approval ritualization and acculturation00:53:22
that there was something basically wrong00:53:24
with this may way of life maybe00:53:26
exemplified by the fact that those who00:53:28
refused to subscribe to the accumulation00:53:30
and storage of things Christ Muhammad00:53:33
Buddha became the founders of the00:53:35
world's great religions00:53:36
throughout all of this nature was the00:53:38
enemy the purpose of the life of this00:53:40
strange creature we've described was to00:53:42
conquer nature tame the Wilderness make00:53:44
war on pests and Vermin control the00:53:46
rivers life was a battle against the00:53:48
elements only the fittest survived whole00:53:51
species of other life forms plants00:53:52
insects reptiles fish amphibians birds00:53:55
and mammals were exterminated most00:53:57
usually because they represented00:53:59
so-called threat against the00:54:00
accumulation of things00:54:02
another moment man's feeling for being00:54:04
at least partly in control of his00:54:06
Destiny was based on the Gathering of00:54:08
things00:54:09
well-being was measured quantitatively00:54:12
the more the better from the very00:54:14
beginning he was motivated by fear00:54:17
thank you00:54:19
someone came up with an idea not long00:54:21
ago that intrigues me he said everything00:54:23
we do is either goal achieving or00:54:26
tension relieving00:54:28
that's something to think about isn't it00:54:29
everything you do is either goal00:54:31
achieving or tension relieving00:54:34
you know if a man's not too happy with00:54:36
his progress in the world he should give00:54:37
a lot of thought to this idea he should00:54:40
take a good long look at everything he00:54:41
does during his day and as he approaches00:54:43
each Act he should ask himself is this00:54:45
goal achieving or tension relieving now00:54:49
we all need to relieve our tensions but00:54:51
if we're doing too many things that are00:54:53
tension relieving instead of goal00:54:54
achieving they're they're going to hold00:54:56
us back00:54:57
and what I'm sure it couldn't be done it00:55:00
would be interesting if a survey could00:55:01
be made to discover how much time is00:55:03
devoted each day of the work week by the00:55:06
so-called average man to X which is00:55:08
strictly goal achieving00:55:10
we might all be amazed to discover what00:55:12
a small amount of time is actually spent00:55:14
in earning our livings and preparing for00:55:16
our futures this would vary widely of00:55:18
course from industry to Industry and00:55:20
from job to job the busy doctor for00:55:22
example might spend00:55:24
12 hours a day actually in the presence00:55:26
of his patients and every minute with a00:55:28
patient would have to be called goal00:55:30
achieving compare this with the time00:55:32
spent by say a Salesman how much of his00:55:35
day and again this would vary widely00:55:37
from industry to Industry is actually00:55:39
spent in goal achieving acts driving00:55:42
from one call to another even though00:55:43
he's not in the presence of a prospect00:55:45
or customer would have to be under goal00:55:48
achieving stopping for a cup of coffee00:55:50
would be under tension relieving so when00:55:52
chatting with people he can't sell or00:55:54
reading a magazine while he's waiting to00:55:57
see someone00:55:58
well this is a pretty00:56:00
kind of vital balancing act that each of00:56:04
us should give some thought to00:56:05
going overboard in the tension relieving00:56:08
Department could lead to some serious00:56:10
problems in the future00:56:12
now Samuel Johnson once said every man00:56:14
is or hopes to be an idler00:56:18
but like everything else in the world00:56:20
there is a time to be idle and a time00:56:22
not to be idle if you want to be idle00:56:24
later in Comfort it's a good idea to00:56:26
make sure you're not spending too much00:56:28
time in idleness now at any rate I think00:56:31
it can be said that the success of a00:56:33
person in any undertaking will hinge00:56:36
directly if one is making certain that00:56:39
the majority of his daily acts are goal00:56:42
achieving and that he relegates to a00:56:44
secondary position those acts which must00:56:46
be classified as tension relieving it00:56:50
might be worth how worthwhile carrying a00:56:52
little piece of paper and making a note00:56:54
as we do things during the day is this00:56:57
tension relieving or cold achieving00:56:59
now just a moment for this message00:57:03
we must certainly carve out our own00:57:06
worlds in this life and the shape and00:57:08
size of them will be determined in large00:57:10
part by the balance we achieved between00:57:13
tension relieving and goal achieving00:57:16
Acts00:57:17
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