《The science of getting rich》Chapter 15 The Advancing Man

关注微信公众号“爱满手”获取全部文稿（荔枝电台对字数有限制，所以这里只有部分文稿） The Advancing Man What I have said in the last chapter applies to the professional and the wage earner as well as to a person who is engaged in mercantile business. No matter what your profession, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of this gift, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich. The physician who holds the vision of himself as a great and successful healer – and who works toward the complete realization of that vision with faith and purpose – will come into such close touch with the Infinite that he will be phenomenally successful. Patients will come to him in throngs. No one has a greater opportunity to carry into effect the teachings of this book than the practitioner of medicine. It does not matter which of the various schools he may belong to, because the principle of healing is common to all of them and may be reached by all. The advancing man in medicine – who holds to a clear mental image of himself as successful and who obeys the laws of faith, purpose, and gratitude – will cure every curable case he undertakes, no matter what remedies he may use. In the field of religion, the world cries out for clergy who can teach their hearers the true science of abundant life. A person who masters the details of the science of getting rich – together with the allied sciences of being well, of being great, and of winning love – and who teaches these details from the pulpit, will never lack for a congregation. This is the gospel that the world needs. It will give increase of life. People will hear it gladly and will give liberal support to the person who brings it to them. What is now needed is a demonstration of the science of life from the pulpit. We want preachers who cannot only tell us how, but who in their own persons will show us how. We need the preacher who is rich, healthy, great, and beloved, to teach us how to attain these things. And, when that person comes, he will find a numerous and loyal following. The same is true of the teacher who can inspire the children with the faith and purpose of the advancing life. That person will never be out of a job. And teachers who have this faith and purpose can give it to their pupils. They cannot help giving it to them if it is part of their own life and practice. What is true of the teacher, preacher, and physician is also true of the lawyer, dentist, real estate person, insurance agent – of everybody. The combined mental and personal action I have described is infallible. It cannot fail. Every man and woman who follows these instructions steadily, perseveringly, and to the letter will get rich. The law of the increase of life is as mathematically certain in its operation as the law of gravitation. Getting rich is an exact science. The wage earner will also find this to be true. Do not feel that you have no chance to get rich because you are working where there is no visible opportunity for advancement – where wages are small and the cost of living high. Form your clear mental vision of what you want and begin to act with faith and purpose. Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner. Put the power of success and the purpose of getting rich into everything that you do. However, do not do this merely with the idea of currying favor with your employer in the hope that he, or those above you, will see your good work and advance you. It is unlikely that they will do so. The person who is merely a good worker – filling his place to the very best of his ability and satisfied with that – is valuable to his employer. It is not in the employer’s interest to promote him. He is worth more where he is. To secure advancement, something more is necessary than to be too large for your place. The person who is certain to advance is the one who is too big for his place and who has a clear concept of what he wants to be – who knows that he can become what he wants to be and who is determined to be what he wants to be. Do not try to more than fill your present place with a view to pleasing your employer. Do it with the idea of advancing yourself. Hold the faith and purpose of increase during work hours, after work hours, and before work hours. Hold it in such a way that every person who comes in contact with you – whether foreman, fellow worker, or social acquaintance – will feel the power of purpose radiating from you. Hold the faith and purpose so that every one will get the sense of advancement and increase from you. People will be attracted to you, and if there is no possibility for advancement in your present job, you will very soon see an opportunity to take another job. There is a power which never fails to present opportunity to the advancing man who is moving in obedience to law. God cannot help helping you if you act in the certain way. He must do so in order to help himself. There is nothing in your circumstances or in the industrial situation that can keep you down. If you cannot get rich working for a conglomerate, you can get rich on a ten-acre farm. And, if you begin to move in the certain way, you will certainly escape from the clutches of the conglomerates and get on to the farm or wherever else you wish to be. If a few thousand of its employees would enter upon the certain way, a company would soon be in a bad plight. It would have to give its workers more opportunity or go out of business. Nobody has to work for inadequate pay. The company can keep people in so-called hopeless conditions only so long as there are those who are too ignorant to know of the science of getting rich – or too intellectually slothful to practice it.