Self Development

THE SECRET OF SUCCESS

By

William Walter Atkinson

Contents

The Secret of Success …3

The Individual …6

Spiritedness …8

Latent Powers …12

Soul-Force …16

The Power of Desire …20

The Law of Attraction …24

Personal Magnetism …30

Attractive Personality …33

An Afterword …39

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The Secret of Success

It is with some hesitation that we bring ourselves to write this little book, entitled

"The Secret of Success." Not that we are not in sympathy with the subject - not

that we do not believe that there is a "Secret of Success" - but because there has

been so much written on the subject of "Success" that is the veriest twaddle masses of platitudinous wordiness - that we hesitate to take the position of a

teacher of Success. It is so easy to fill pages of paper with good advice - it is so

much easier to say things than to do them - so much easier to formulate a code of

precepts than to get out into the field of active endeavor and put into practice the

same percepts. And, you may imagine why we hesitate to assume a role which

would lay us open to the suspicion of being one of the "do as I tell you, and not as

I do" teachers of the Art of Success.

But there is another side of the question. There is, besides the mere recital of a

List of Good Qualities Leading to Success - a list with which every schoolboy and

reader of the magazines is acquainted - a Something Else; and that Something

Else, is a suggestion that the Seeker for Success has a Something Within himself

which if expressed into activity and action will prove of great value to him - a

veritable Secret of Success, instead of a code of rules. And, so we propose to

devote this little book to unfolding our idea of what this Something Within is, and

what it will do for one who will unfold it and thus express it into action. So,

therefore, do not expect to find this book a "Complete Compendium of Rules

Conducive to Success, Approved of and Formulated by the Successful Men of the

World...