The Way to Will Power (1922).pdf

T HE W AY

TO W ILL -P OWER

HenryHazlitt

Authorof Thinking as a Science

“ The strength of your life is measured by the

strength of your will .” —HenryVanDyke

NewYork

E.P.Dutton&Company

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By E.P. Dutton & Company

Reprinted in 2008 by the Ludwig von Mises Institute

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Auburn, Alabama 36832

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Printed in the United States of America

C ONTENTS

Chapter

Page

I ARevelation

II TheIntellectasaValet

III ThePriceOnePays

IV OldBottlesfortheNewWine

V ResolutionsMadeandResolutionsKept 27

VI SuccessandtheCapitalS

VII TheScaleofValues

VIII ControllingOne’sThoughts

IX TheOmnipresenceofHabit

X TheAlterationofHabit

XI WillandthePsychoanalysts

XII Concentration

XIII AProgramofWork

XIV TheDailyChallenge

XV SecondandThirdWinds

XVI MoralCourage

109

A R EVELATION

Y OU have seen the advertisements. The lion and the man are

And at the bottom of the page is the triangular clipping which

you cut out and send for the book on how to acquire it.

Orperhapstheadvertisementpromisesyoua$10,000ayearpo-

sition. Nothing less than $10,000 a year seems capable of attracting

the present-day reader of twenty-cent magazines. And those posi-

tions, one learns, are reserved for the men of Will-Power (not for-

getting the capitals).

The advertisements betray bizarre ideas about the will and will-

power.Anyonewhohastheremotestnotionofpsychologymightbe

led from them to suspect the advertised course. But the advertise-

ments reflect not alone the advertiser’s ideas, but the ideas of the

plain man. They are written to catch the plain man’s eye, and they

do catch his eye, how else to account for their persistence, their en-

largement and their multiplication, notwithstanding the notorious

expensiveness of advertising?

Now I am about to reveal a profound secret about the will. The

revelation will cause a good deal of shock and disappointment and

abedlamofprotest.However,Iderivecouragetomeettheprotestbe-

cause I have an imposing body of psychologic opinion behind me. I

facing each other; the man upstanding, hands clenched, his

look defiant and terrible; the lion crouching. Who will win? The

man, without doubt. He has what the beast lacks, Will-Power.

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