How to Build self Confidence

By GARDNER GREEN

Of all the goods of life, which life, moreover, parsimoniously measures out to us, the most precious is certainly health. It is also the one we neglect the most. We waste our strength, we abuse our stomachs, we lavish our energy with guilty recklessness.

What do a regularly beating heart, a lucid brain, vigorous and powerful lungs matter? We have only one goal: wealth.

All our faculties, all our acts, all our hopes are concentrated and spent on the conquest of gold. On the road of time, we run without respite towards some fabulous land of alaska which promises our covetousness the prodigious metal. A wind of madness carries us, we cry, we crush the weak, pushing some, pushed by others, torn, violent, bumping into obstacles, we fall without breath, we stiffen, leaving a shred of flesh on the sharp stones of the ground , then raised, we resume our fiery race, our clamors, our struggles, our eyes fixed on the dazzling mirage, our arms outstretched towards the city of joy.

How few, alas, are rewarded for their efforts? How few touch the expected boundary?

The possession of gold being the supreme and primordial thought of all, i believe it useful, in order not to wear out the patience of the readers, to devote the first chapters of this book to the various methods and means employed to earn it, since he there are men who toil. The chapters on health and beauty will only come later, since both these gifts have, according to common error, only a secondary value.

In the course of the present work, i have interposed on almost every page quotations, thoughts, maxims, borrowed from eminent men of all ages. First, to show the reader that by reading my recommendations, by following my advice, it is not me, an obscure writer, that he is listening to, but the voice of those who have the right to speak.

• Language: English
• Publisher: GARDNER GREEN
• Release date: Jan 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201998653

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FOREWORD

OF ALL THE GOODS OF life, which life, moreover, parsimoniously measures out to us, the most precious is certainly health. It is also the one we neglect the most. We waste our strength, we abuse our stomachs, we lavish our energy with guilty recklessness.

What do a regularly beating heart, a lucid brain, vigorous and powerful lungs matter? We have only one goal: wealth.

All our faculties, all our acts, all our hopes are concentrated and spent on the conquest of gold. On the road of time, we run without respite towards some fabulous land of Alaska which promises our covetousness the prodigious metal. A wind of madness carries us, we cry, we crush the weak, pushing some, pushed by others, torn, violent, bumping into obstacles, we fall without breath, we stiffen, leaving a shred of flesh on the sharp stones of the ground , then raised, we resume our fiery race, our clamors, our struggles, our eyes fixed on the dazzling mirage, our arms outstretched towards the city of joy.

How few, alas, are rewarded for their efforts? How few touch the expected boundary?

The possession of gold being the supreme and primordial thought of all, I believe it useful, in order not to wear out the patience of the readers, to devote the first chapters of this book to the various methods and means employed to earn it, since he there are men who toil. The chapters on health and beauty will only come later, since both these gifts have, according to common error, only a secondary value.

In the course of the present work, I have interposed on almost every page quotations, thoughts, maxims, borrowed from eminent men of all ages. First, to show the reader that by reading my recommendations, by following my advice, it is not me, an obscure writer, that he is listening to, but the voice of those who have the right to speak.

Then, because I know that the memory, lazy by nature, does not connect well the teaching that is given to it, and that nothing helps it so much to remember what can be profitable to the mind than these concise formulas, this quintessence of wisdom and observation, expressed in a few unforgettable words.

Before and better than me, Joubert said: "Good maxims are the seeds of all good, strongly imprinted in the memory, they nourish the will. »

I remembered this word, I recognized its truth. And that is why I have tried, as best I could, to provide the reader's memory with numerous and powerful points of support, to increase his moral strength as well as his means of action. I wanted, by quoting frequently, to arm it with the experience of centuries and to bring it into communion with the great universal thought.

First part

QUALITIES REQUIRED TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS

"MAN'S HAPPINESS HAS a name: I want.

F. NIETZSCHE

SELF-CONFIDENCE

FORTUNE DOESN'T COME To You, You Have To Go To It - How To Be Well Armed - Self Confidence - Don't Be Inferior

to others - The manner of being superior - To overcome shyness - How one acquires composure - Learn to speak - Method to obtain the facility of elocution necessary for the superior man.

IF THE NUMBER OF WEALTHY people is relatively small, this is because many of those who could acquiring wealth neglect to make use of the higher means which they unconsciously possess and leave their qualities unproductive.

The book I beg them to read will initiate them into their true value.

Apart from rare exceptions, which must be considered as social miracles, fortune does not come to you, you have to go to it. It is, allow me the comparison, a fast game, which hears you and sees you coming from afar, which gets lost in the thickets, which slides along the paths, which passes near you to disappear immediately and which does not returns only after a furious hunt and a considerable expenditure of cunning, patience and perseverance.

The first hunter to come cannot therefore overcome Fortune. To go into the field, you need to be well armed, well dressed, so that the storm has no hold on you, you need a solid leg that no climbing tires, a

even-temperedness that no disappointment harms; you have to know how to keep watch, to see well, quickly and accurately, these are all conditions and qualities that are easy to possess if you put some good will into them.

In the following lines, I will try, dear reader, to indicate to you what it is necessary to do to be well armed, - morally understood, - to force the beast, and bring it back, triumphant and joyful, to your home.

If you believe in my words, in my ideas, which are not mine exclusively, but which are the echo, the summary of words and ideas gathered from all the masters and

countless works, you will be the happy hunter whose

I speak above, you will be the rich man you dreamed of being, and as you are generous and of an elevated heart, you will be able, as you wish, to sow around you joy and happiness. You will have gone through life doing good.

Self-confidence is the first quality to acquire. Believing in your star, looking to the future with serenity, because the future owes you all the satisfactions that life has in store for its chosen ones, is an essential condition for success.

If you compare yourself and judge yourself inferior to others, you are lost, you will be influenced by people who will have an interest in using you, you will obey them, you will be a passive instrument in their hands and you will vegetate in menial jobs. .

On the contrary, say to yourself every day, at all hours, mentally insisting on your affirmations: I am a man, that is to say a thinking being, capable of considering and studying all problems. I discern right from wrong, right from wrong, I understand beauty, my intelligence is as broad, as lucid, as that of the men around me, my reason is as good as theirs.

I have enough initiative and perspicacity to carry out my business, therefore I need no master, and I can fight advantageously against those who would like to subordinate my efforts and use them to their advantage.

Repeat this to yourself often, never tire of repeating it, convince yourself of your worth. The most serious obstacle to self-confidence is shyness. It is a moral infirmity that must be cured at all costs, when one has the misfortune to be afflicted by it. It paralyzes the best moves, suffocates in the egg the interesting initiatives, breaks the wing of the most beautiful impulses. We must fight with all our might against such a state of mind.

Seek, as much as possible, the society of those who ignore this weakness. Have friends who are sure of themselves, imperturbable, whom nothing dismantles, whom no presence intimidates.

Little by little, upon contact with them, by a kind of endosmosis observed many times, which we also call the contagion of example, their character will modify yours, transform it, make it the image of theirs. You will gain from their assurance, you will inherit their coolness, you will see the childishness of most of your apprehensions, the insignificance of your alarms.

You will finally be able to wait for people with a firm footing, defend your place, demand respect, claim your rights, be everywhere, neither more nor less than the others, but their equal.

"Teaching by example is the only one that leads, because the example is the life, instead of being the lesson. » EUGENE MAUDEAU.

Law of atavism, inadequacy of education, whatever the cause, almost all of us have a deplorable propensity to bow before appearances, the outward sign. We are the idolaters