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Secret #4
Develop The Mind of a Winner

After you use secret #3 to clean your mind, you are ready to develop the mind of a winner. By removing all false ideas and repressed emotions from your mind, you are poised to enter the realm of wide-open thinking. To do that kind of thinking, you need to develop the honest integrating mind. This secret shows you how to develop the honest integrating mind, which is the mind of a winner.

Human beings use conceptual thinking to survive. Most people are not aware of their thought processes and the crucial need to be honest in every thought and action. People who are not explicitly aware of their thought processes often rationalize the use of dishonesty to gain unearned advantages. Some people purposely integrate dishonesty to gain unbeatable advantages over those who are not aware of the techniques of false power. Yet, once you become explicitly aware of your thought processes and evolve into the honest integrating mind, you clearly see the impotence of dishonesty. Suddenly, you grasp that false power is uncompetitive, ridiculous, and moribund. At the same time, you harness the power of the universe: mystic-free conceptual consciousness.

Having the mind of a winner consists of being conscious of your own thought processes. It means that you consciously integrate knowledge. By being explicitly aware of your own thinking, you grasp the crucial need to be honest in every thought. Why? Because you understand that dishonesty is the attempt to fake reality. You know that to live successfully, you have to correspond to reality, not fake it or invent another reality. In addition, you grasp that honest integrated thinking delivers an avalanche of competitive advantages over mystical or dishonest thinking. Yes, the honest integrating mind easily outcompetes all other minds, ranging from mystical minds to specialized minds to criminal minds. The honest integrating mind rules everything in the universe.

When you develop the mind of a winner, regardless of your age, you will experience an unending cascade of advantages over the competition. For example, you will dramatically improve your problem-solving skills. By thinking in principles, you will have the ability to solve not just one problem at a time, but an entire cluster of problems at once. You will also control the future. That's right. With the honest integrating mind, you think in entirely new ways. Time concerns fall away, which enable you to predict the future with certainty. Thus, you see things before the competition. This puts you in control of the future. Then you use your advanced knowledge to create the future. Imagine what creating the future would be like. You sit in the cat-bird seat; you control the marketplace. Equally important, you control reality.

Can you really control reality, or is this just another false notion conjured up by the mystical mind? Once you develop the mind of a winner, will you actually dominate life? Yes, the mind of a winner can and does control reality and dominate life. Consider that the criminal and mystical minds control the upside-down world. No one in the upside-down world can compete with those dishonest/disintegrating minds. They rule everything within the tiny boundaries of the upside-down world. Beginning with Plato, the dishonest/disintegrating mind has destroyed an enormous amount of values and killed every person on Earth. That corroded mind, which arises from the hallucinating mind of prehistoric man, is detached from reality.

But the mind of a winner, which is a man-made mind, is fully integrated with reality. Moreover, the mind of a winner is driven by effort and honesty. That combination of being integrated with reality, honesty, and effort will annihilate the corroded mind. The corroded mind simply cannot compete for survival against the mind of a winner. The mind of a winner moves in and genuinely controls all competitive situations while the corroded mind stumbles in its own incompetence. Then the entire upside-down world will collapse like the Berlin Wall. In its place will arise a right-side up world controlled by honest integrating minds.

What is The Mind of a Winner?

The animal mind, the hallucinating mind, and the corroded mind are all mind circuits of the past. The mind of a winner obsoletes these mind circuits. So what exactly is the mind of a winner? The mind of a winner is the honest integrating mind. It is the mode of consciousness that controls existence. The honest integrating mind is the source of all values throughout the universe. By developing the honest integrating mind now, you will produce a stunning array of values for self and others. Additionally, you benefit tremendously from the values that flow from other honest integrating minds.

Before the discovery of the honest integrating mind, everyone was stuck with the corroded mind. Today, however, that old mystical/disintegrating mind is yielding to the new mystic-free/integrating mind. You will be among the first on Earth to develop the mystic-free/integrating mind. As individuals develop this new mind and begin prospering from it, everyone else will scramble to develop this mind to compete for survival and prosperity. Others will look up to you as you radiate competitive strength never before seen on planet Earth.

People such as Isaac Newton and John Stuart Mill were highly intelligent people. Yet, those who develop the honest integrating mind can make discoveries beyond even these great minds. For, mindpower is a function of effort and honesty, not native intelligence. And the mind of a winner is driven by effort and honesty. Children under the age of six unknowingly use the mind of a winner, but adults do not. Thus, evolving into and using the mind of a winner will feel strange at first. However, once you use it for a while, it feels natural, healthy, and awesome.

How does the honest integrating mind work? It uses the process of visualization to picture a major project or goal. The honest integrating mind sees that goal clearly, vividly, as if it was already completed. This mind imagines what the completed goal would look like, sound like, smell like, taste like, and feel like. In other words, the honest integrating mind peers into the future and sees the big picture along with the details. This mind then determines the specific tasks that need to be completed in order to achieve the goal. How does this mind determine these specific tasks? It uses creative or lateral thinking to discover tasks that will lead to the achievement of the goal. Then it uses logical or vertical thinking to determine which of these tasks are the most effective.

Next, the honest integrating mind schedules these tasks into specific time slots during the day so they can be completed. As each new day arrives, the person simply follows his schedule and completes each task. Then one morning this person wakes up and realizes that his major goal is achieved. But that is not all he achieves. He envisions several major goals and works to complete all of them simultaneously. The result is that he achieves more in a few months than the corroded mind achieves in a few years. This is how he moves beyond the competition. And this is how he generates multimillion dollar fortunes.

To break away from the competition and break into the good money, a person needs to envision brand new goals--goals that no one before him has known. How does he do this? He uses new knowledge to formulate his goals. He needs an unending array of new knowledge to continue setting and achieving new goals. By doing this, he consistently grows into prosperity and fulfillment.

What is the mechanism that delivers new knowledge without limits? The mind of a winner is the mechanism that delivers limitless new knowledge.

Yes, new knowledge comes from integrated thinking. A person gains sensations from his environment through his five senses--sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. The person's brain automatically integrates these sensations into percepts. Then the person consciously integrates these percepts into concepts. Next, the person consciously integrates his concepts into thoughts. He then integrates his thoughts into principles. Once he has formed principles, he uses them to form new concepts, thoughts, and principles without limits. In other words, his principled thinking enables him to generate knowledge without limits.

For example, a girl sees a piece of food. She picks it up and smells it. Her brain automatically integrates her sensations of sight, smell, and touch into the percept "cheese". Now she is aware that this piece of food is cheese. Then she sees butter, cream, and milk. She mentally integrates these items with the piece of cheese to form the concept "dairy products". Next, she integrates this concept with other concepts to form the thought: vegetables, fruits, meats, poultry, and dairy products comprise a healthy diet for human beings. Later, while cooking, she learns that butter melts and milk spoils when left out of the refrigerator for a while. This leads her to form the principle: dairy products need to be refrigerated to stay fresh. As this girl grows in knowledge, she identifies a wide variety of foods and how to store them properly. She learns which foods can remain at room temperature, which foods need to be refrigerated, and which foods need to be put in the freezer.

The person with the mind of a winner integrates knowledge continuously. He or she forms new concepts, thoughts, and principles--new knowledge--without limits. The above process of integration is called reason, which is man's basic means of survival. Reason enables man to integrate his percepts into concepts and concepts into thoughts for unlimited knowledge. And since reason employs logic to keep one's thoughts attached to reality, logic underpins the honest integrating mind--the mind of a winner.

The process of integration applies to all areas of life. The mind of a winner integrates knowledge of science, astronomy, history, art, business, and so on. Integration also applies to the personal realm. For example, the mind of a winner integrates knowledge in the areas of love relationships, family, friends, and money. By using honest integrated thinking one hundred percent of the time, a person easily out-thinks and outcompetes all corroded minds.

How to Develop The Mind of a Winner

Survival pressures guarantee that everyone will develop the mind of a winner. Once a tiny fraction of Earth's population captures the prosperity and happiness that is available from the mind of a winner, everyone else will scramble to develop this mind to compete for survival. A tiny fraction of people have already developed the mind of a winner. They will trigger the conversion of minds in everyone else. As that momentous event unfolds, people everywhere--from Asia to Europe to America--will race to exchange their corroded minds for the mind of the winner. This conversion will occur rapidly, regardless of what happens in the upside-down world. Cyberspace guarantees this conversion. Why? Because vital information is now flowing throughout Cyberspace and it cannot be blocked, no matter what anyone says or does.

Yes, survival pressures will force everyone to develop the honest integrating mind. However, some people will develop this omnipotent mind before the heat of survival pressures builds up. Why? To gain prosperity and happiness now and forever into the future. These first few individuals will develop the mind of a winner to capture limitless success. By cleansing their mind and evolving into the honest integrating mind, these first few people will leave the upside-down world behind forever. They will see through the grand illusions that comprise that insane world. Using their supra-powerful minds, they will bring a rational world to Earth. And they will dominate the competition far into the future.

You do not need to wait for intense survival pressures to develop the mind of a winner. You can develop that mind starting today. Then you, too, will grow into ever increasing power, wealth, romantic love, and happiness--long before everybody else. Thus, you will hold ground-floor advantages over the competition. You will prosper tremendously, rapidly--in every area of your life--while the competition is still crippled by Plato's 2300 year-old matrix of dishonesty and illusions.

What do you need to do to develop the mind of a winner? You have already cleansed your mind; you have removed the impurities. What, then, are the live-action steps you can take to develop the mind of a winner today?

You can develop the mind of a winner by going on a mind-integrating journey through a book and audiotape program. Which book and audiotape program? The book and audiotape program by the mega value producer and premier philosopher Leonard Peikoff.

The title of the book is Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Leonard Peikoff (512 pages, NAL-Dutton, 1993). The title of the audiotape program is The Art of Thinking by Leonard Peikoff (15 tapes, Second Renaissance Books, 1994). These two products deliver the knowledge you need to develop the mind of a winner. There are no better products available to develop the mind of a winner. Furthermore, carefully studying these two products will transpose you from a world of illusions into a world of reality. Say good-bye to endless losses. Say good-bye to chronic emotional pain. And say hello to limitless prosperity and happiness.

With those two products, you will emerge with awesome mindpower. You will posses the honest integrating mind, which is the mind of a winner.

You might hunger for a more extensive understanding of the honest integrating mind. If so, you will want to read the following two books and listen to the following two audiotape programs. The books are The Neo-Tech Discovery by Frank R. Wallace (800 pages, Neo-Tech Pub., 1994) and The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes (480 pages, Houghton Mifflin, 1990). The audiotape programs are Introduction to Logic by Leonard Peikoff (20 tapes, Second Renaissance Books, 1993) and Psycho-Epistemology by Harry Binswanger (2 tapes, Second Renaissance Books, 1995).

Other authors you can read and listen to in order to enhance your understanding and use of the honest integrating mind are: Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, and Mark Hamilton. Now let's focus on the books and tapes listed above.

Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

This masterpiece by Leonard Peikoff reveals the honest integrating mind in brilliant clarity. Dr. Peikoff takes you on an awesome intellectual tour. That tour covers everything: reality, consciousness, human beings, morality, government, economics, art, and history. Leonard Peikoff reveals the step-by-step functioning of the honest integrating mind in a down-to-earth manner that essentially anyone can follow. The four chapters titled "Sense Perception and Volition", "Concept- Formation", "Reason", and "Objectivity" bring the honest integrating mind into existence. The rest of the book describes the consequences that follow from that omnipotent mind.

The Art of Thinking

Listen to Leonard Peikoff explain how to think in principles in what may be the most valuable audiotape program available. Dr. Peikoff covers the following subjects: hierarchy, thinking in essentials, thinking in principles, certainty, and more. Once you grasp and apply the material in this program, you will outcompete all other minds--mystical minds, criminal minds, and specialized minds--for money, power, and romantic love. You will move ahead of the competition while others flounder in the upside-down world.

The Neo-Tech Discovery

See the honest integrating mind spring to life in this masterpiece by Frank R. Wallace. Not only does he provide tools to cleanse the mind, but Dr. Wallace demonstrates the wide-scope power of the honest integrating mind. Building upon the pioneering works of Aristotle, Rand, Branden, Peikoff, and others, Dr. Wallace takes you on a mystic-bubble-breaking journey, which culminates in limitless prosperity. Once you grasp and apply the techniques in this book, you will soar with a new-world power.

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Let Julian Jaynes take you on a fascinating journey through the history of the human mind. Dr. Jaynes shows you what consciousness is and how it arose. He discusses the transformation of the human mind from the past to the present. Then he discusses the future of human consciousness. This masterpiece provides you with the background knowledge to understand this one-of-a-kind transition in human history.

Introduction to Logic

Reason and logic are man's basic means of survival. If you have not taken a course in logic, this one is for you. Leonard Peikoff covers informal fallacies, deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, definitions, and more. Logic is the foundation of the honest integrating mind, and Dr. Peikoff explains this subject in a clear and engaging manner. Once you master the material in this program, you will see logical fallacies everywhere in the upside-down world. You will see that the entire upside-down world is rooted in logical fallacies. More important, you can form non-contradictory thoughts and ideas without limits. Combine this program with The Art of Thinking and you, too, can generate new knowledge for limitless success and prosperity.

Psycho-Epistemology

Once you develop the honest integrating mind, you will be generating knowledge without limits. But how do you manage all that knowledge? And how do you manage your new, super powerful mind? Harry Binswanger shows you how to do this and more in his important, easy- to-understand program. Dr. Binswanger explains how to manage your subconscious, what a moral character is, and how to improve it. Not only will you have a super powerful conscious mind, but, by studying this program, you will have a well-organized, super-efficient subconscious. In other words, you will have the mind of a winner.

These three books and three audiotape programs bring the honest integrating mind into existence. Carefully study these first two products or all six products and you will develop the mind of a winner. You will have the ability to step outside the upside-down world and step into the right-side up world. Then you can enjoy the unlimited wealth available from the right-side up world.

Think Like a Winner

After you go through this one-of-a-kind transformation, you will look at everything in a new way. Ever since man became conscious, he has developed ideas about things using his corroded mind. His ideas about love, money, power, happiness, art, morality, and society have been contaminated with mind impurities. Thus, many popular ideas are woven with good-sounding but false notions. These contaminated ideas give you an unending array of advantages. Why?

Using your new, omnipotent mind, you pull away from the crowd. Your integrating mind enables you to rise above the Olympian giants and see what no one else has seen. Within a few months or so, you break into new vistas of knowledge. You become like an all-knowing being who soars above the crowd. And with your omnipotent eye, you focus on all the good-sounding ideas of the past three thousand years. Under the focused heat of the honest integrating mind, good-sounding but false ideas disintegrate into the nothingness from which they arose. You exercise your new power by ripping out mystical errors from ideas. With your clean, super-efficient mind, you pin down ideas, remove the errors from them, and then integrate them into a valid context. This gives you supra-power: power to advance in knowledge, prosperity, and well-being, no matter how distorted a picture you initially receive.

For example, while peers are blocked by the good-sounding but erroneous ideas such as "external authorities are valid" or "work is a necessary evil", you soar past all such misinformation. With the honest integrating mind, you leave those errors behind--permanently. You see that the only valid authority arises from the rational use of one's own conscious mind. External authorities can only survive through initiatory force, threat of force, and fraud. But you, with the mind of a winner, obsolete initiatory force, fraud, and coercion. You also see that work is necessary, but it is not evil. Productive work is the dynamic that ensures one's own physical and psychological survival. The competitive production and marketing of values is the most moral and heroic act in which an individual can engage. For, it is what maintains and advances human life, everyone's life--including those who do not produce anything.

That deeply penetrating, wide-scope mind digs in and uproots the impurities from all ideas, which leaves only valid, competitive knowledge. And that never-ending array of competitive knowledge is what advances you into limitless prosperity.

Those who have not yet evolved into the honest integrating mind remain stupefied by the mystical ideas that circulate throughout the upside-down world. You, with the honest integrating mind, burn off the mysticism from ideas. Then you generate new knowledge without limits. Suddenly, you realize that the competition is no competition at all. They are all befuddled by Plato's 2300 year-old matrix of dishonesty and illusions.

Today, nearly everyone uses the corroded mind. You, however, will use the honest integrating mind. You discard the hallucinating-based corroded mind as unnecessary and ridiculous. You rip the Platonic elements out of your soul to boom into genuine power. Then you are able to think in all directions of human knowledge. You take your concepts and either subdivide them or integrate them into new, wider concepts. Next, with your open-ended array of concepts, you form new thoughts and ideas without limits. You think in both new, creative directions and conventional, logical directions. Finally, you verify your new knowledge through reduction. You integrate your new knowledge with the facts of reality and with everything else you know. Using logic as your guide, you achieve certainty about your knowledge. This results in successful action, which culminates in prosperity and happiness.

With the mind of a winner, your life becomes much easier. You know exactly what is going on around you because you know how to perceive and integrate reality. By becoming conscious of your own thought processes, you also grasp the vital need to be honest in your thinking. The process of thinking and acting with fully integrated honesty guarantees your long-range success, prosperity, and happiness. Using dishonesty or deception to gain values inevitably destroys your long-range success, prosperity, and happiness. With the mind of a winner, you quickly grasp how impotent and uncompetitive dishonesty is. You grasp that dishonest, unprincipled people are rooted in the schizophrenic mind of a bygone era. You easily outcompete them for whatever you want. They have no idea what is happening. As a result, they are left in your dust. Eventually, they, too, will have to exchange their corroded minds for the mind of a winner--or face extinction.

Have you ever heard of a paradigm shift? That is where an established method or system is replaced by an entirely new method or system. Paradigm shifts are rarely foreseen by people and they typically affect everyone over time. In many cases, individuals do not intentionally set out to produce paradigm shifts. Such shifts are usually unintended consequences of some person's or organization's actions. For example, look at the printing press and the Internet.

Until the fifteenth century, the reproduction of books was done by hand. Scribes would painstakingly copy books by hand, one at a time. This resulted in the production and distribution of relatively few books. That, in turn, culminated in a culture that was primarily illiterate. As a result, the illiterate society enabled an elite few to have a monopoly on "the truth". For example, popes were empowered, because of their ties with sacred texts, to imprison and burn human beings. Sacred scriptures and dogma gave popes the "authority" to destroy the lives of men and women.

Then along came a man named Johannes Gutenberg. He invented movable type and the printing press, which he introduced to the western world. This resulted in a gigantic increase in the number of books that were produced and distributed. People all over the western world learned to read and, as a result, grew in knowledge. This was the death knell for those who had a monopoly on "the truth". An elite few could no longer imprison and murder without accountability for their actions. Dogma became obsolete. People everywhere began to move away from ignorance and slavery. They began to move toward knowledge and freedom as exemplified during the Enlightenment.

Then some people threatened to use physical force in order to prevent free speech and freedom of the press. Dictators and communist party leaders could not stop people from reading, so they established laws that curtailed the publication of certain kinds of knowledge. This cleared the way for totalitarian control over citizens. Leaders who blocked free speech ruled with little opposition. Corruption flourished. The standard of living for citizens deteriorated.

Then along came the Internet. Originally designed as a communications medium for the Department of Defense, the Internet spread into the academic and commercial spheres. Today, the Internet is evolving into the eternal protector of free speech. Dishonesty, subjective laws, guns, and prisons are powerless in Cyberspace. Anyone can access essentially any information, regardless of what others say or do. Cyberspace is the death knell for everyone who survives by forcibly preventing the free flow of information. The Internet is causing a paradigm shift that will result in educated, informed, and free people everywhere on Earth.

Yes, the printing press and the Internet have produced paradigm shifts. Yet, these paradigm shifts are minor compared to the two that are about to occur. What are these two epochal paradigm shifts? They are the honest integrating mind and the forthcoming right-side up world.

Shortly after man evolved into consciousness, his mind became infected by the Plato disease of irrationality. Man built entire civilizations using his corroded mind. Thus, irrationality was built into every sector of man's civilization. Those who identified and attempted to eliminate irrationality were persecuted, jailed or even killed. Socrates, Jesus, Boethius, Copernicus, Giordano Bruno, Galileo, Algernon Sidney, Baruch Spinoza, John Milton and others suffered incalculable losses as a result of their exposing irrationality.

The honest integrating mind, which is the mind of a winner, is free of irrationality. It integrates all knowledge. This mind out-thinks and outcompetes all other minds. Thus, nothing can stop the honest integrating mind from eliminating irrationality from this world. The corroded mind will be left in the dust. Once a tiny percentage of people develop the honest integrating mind, everyone else will race to exchange their corroded minds for the mind of a winner to survive. The result will be a world filled with honest integrating minds, not corroded minds. This paradigm shift will eliminate irrationality from planet Earth. The result? Individuals everywhere will have mystic-free minds that are capable of integrating and benefiting from the limitless information in Cyberspace.

The exchanging of the corroded mind for the mind of a winner will cause another monumental paradigm shift. That shift is the conversion from the upside-down world to the right-side up world. As people everywhere begin to evolve into the honest integrating mind, they will increasingly reject the insanities of the upside-down world. Ignorance, poverty, sickness, and death will become ridiculous. Destroying wealth, values, and human life will become uncompetitive. Essentially everyone will survive through the competitive production and voluntary exchange of values. The result? A rational, free, and open-ended world based on objective law will allow conscious life to flourish.

This is not a utopian fantasy. This is a real world that is coming to Earth. Cyberspace will deliver it. The right-side up world will materialize first in America, then around the world. When that happens, individual rights will reign supreme. That irresistible world will arise no matter what anyone says or does. And it will profoundly affect every aspect of human life--the personal, professional, business, legal, and entertainment spheres of life.

You can develop the mind of a winner now and move beyond the competition for power, wealth, and romantic love. Or you can scramble to develop that mind with everyone else later. The choice is yours. But each individual will eventually develop the mind of a winner. That development is a personal matter; nobody can or will do it for you. Once you develop the honest integrating mind, however, you will discover that the rewards are out of all proportion to the effort expended. What are those rewards? Limitless prosperity and happiness--now and forever.

Plan to Win For The Rest of Your Life

You have removed the impurities from your mind. You have developed the honest integrating mind. Now what? What do you do now that you have the mind of a winner? You plan to win for the rest of your life.

The right-side up world consists of goal-directed action. That is good because the honest integrating mind is a goal-directed mind. The two are a perfect match; they are made for each other. Goals can be set and achieved by everyone, and, when approached rationally, they are highly effective. But with the honest integrating mind, you take goals to the next level.

You use the mind of a winner to set goals in both the personal and professional realms. You take control over the mental, physical, emotional, financial, and material areas of your life. Productive work--value production--enables you to achieve all your other goals, and the honest integrating mind is unsurpassed at value production.

Using the mind of a winner, you set specific, realistic goals for value production. Perhaps you want to develop a new product or service. Or you may want to produce new artwork or novels. Whatever you choose, the mind of a winner will make it happen quicker and more efficiently.

The competitive production of values requires the integration of many things. For example, the production of values requires planning, research, production, marketing, distribution, accounting, managerial, and customer service functions. An individual might have to deal with all these functions in a single day. With the corroded mind, this becomes overwhelming. The corroded mind breaks down. Now add in the rapid expansion of a business, and the corroded mind loses control. It cannot keep up with the increasing demands of business. The business person either has to restrict the growth of the business or delegate responsibilities to others to handle the increasing complexity. How does this compare to the honest integrating mind?

The honest integrating mind operates in an entirely different way than the corroded mind. To begin with, the honest integrating mind is fully integrated with reality and honesty. Thus, illusions, deceptions, pragmatism, and dishonesty do not exist in the mind of a winner. From this solid base of reality and honesty springs business, but not traditional business. The mind of a winner integrates percepts into concepts, concepts into thoughts, and thoughts into principles. The honest integrating mind generates knowledge without limits--infinitely beyond the narrow limits of the corroded mind. With its principled thinking, the honest integrating mind takes a systematic approach to business. This mind develops business in radically new ways that parallel the operation of this mind.

From its principled thinking, the honest integrating mind makes vast integrations of knowledge. It integrates the past, present, and future. Seeing things from Olympian perspectives, it becomes conscious of its actions far in advance of taking those actions. This foresight enables the man or woman with the mind of a winner to flourish in business.

Business is divided into segments and each segment is built to its maximum capacity of conscious thought. Then these segments are integrated by the subconscious to yield a new, super-wide perspective of business. This new knowledge is subdivided and then integrated in the same way to produce finer distinctions and wider integrations. Using this process of subdivision and integration, the mind of a winner soars into genuine power and earned wealth. No problem is insurmountable. In fact, the larger the problem, the more new knowledge will result. This means that, in business and in the personal realm, the mind of a winner is unstoppable. No one can stop the mind of a winner from competitively producing and exchanging values. Value destruction becomes uncompetitive. Value destroyers--from small-time con artists to mega murderers--cannot stop the honest integrating mind from generating limitless wealth. Equally important, professional value destroyers cannot drain values or wealth from the integrated value producers. Thus, to survive, all value destroyers will have to develop the mind of a winner--or commit suicide.

Consider how many people attempt to achieve their dreams and fail. They give up and die unfulfilled. Some become cynical. Others become apathetic. A few turn to crime. But what about the handful of people who succeed on a large scale? What makes this handful of people different from everyone else? Do they have more money, luck, or intelligence? Studies reveal that none of these things are the sufficient cause for great success. People from all different backgrounds have achieved startling success. People who were poor, who had average intelligence, and who did not experience good luck achieved wonderful success. Others who had money, intelligence, and good luck also achieved great success. So what is the cause of great success? What is the difference between those that succeed and those that fail?

Everyone who succeeded on a grand scale learned something that those who fail never learned. Those who experienced great success implicitly learned how to do integrated thinking. Those who failed did not learn how to do integrated thinking.

Essentially everyone who succeeded on a grand scale did not learn how to do integrated thinking from books or classrooms. No. People such as Baron de Rothschild, Benjamin Franklin, Cornelius Vanderbuilt, Jay Gould, Henry Ford, and other genuine millionaires learned how to integrate knowledge through their own experiences. These people did not read their way to million dollar fortunes. They learned, from in-the-trenches experiences and survival pressures, how to integrate knowledge. In fact, valid methods of how to integrate knowledge did not even exist in books until recently.

Integrated thinking is the mechanism that generates unlimited values and prosperity. But, while the great wealth producers implicitly learned how to do integrated thinking, they did not know how to do this explicitly. Thus, they could not use integrated thinking to its fullest extent. Now, today, you can use integrated thinking and be explicitly aware of integrating knowledge. By being conscious of the process of integrating knowledge, you will out-think all those who use the corroded mind. Moreover, you do not have to make errors in your thinking. If you are unsure about coming to a conclusion, you can refrain from making it. Furthermore, you know how to validate your knowledge to achieve certainty. Yes, becoming conscious of the process of integrated thinking is super power. This advances you beyond your peers. You can use integrated thinking to achieve whatever you want. Integrated thinking provides such a flood of advantages over the corroded mind that soon everyone will use integrated thinking.

Once you develop the mind of a winner, you can divide each part of your life into segments and build each to its maximum capacity of conscious thought. Those maximum-capacity segments are suddenly integrated into brand new knowledge. With this new knowledge you can construct compelling plans for your life. The mind of a winner enables you to create realistic plans that lead you to fulfillment. That fulfillment, in turn, leads to your own abiding happiness. And abiding happiness is the most important thing you can achieve.

Turn Your Thoughts Into Things

Does the idea of turning your thoughts into things sound mystical? Everyone has heard of mystical notions such as "the mind creates reality" or "mind over matter". In reality, the mind does not create reality, nor does the mind have primacy over matter. The mind does, however, play a crucial role in the conversion of thoughts to things. While the old corroded mind is inefficient in the conversion of thoughts to things, the new integrating mind is super-efficient in converting thoughts into things.

The idea of turning your thoughts into things is not a mystical, good-sounding idea that leads to failure. This idea is valid. People throughout history have implicitly used it to create businesses, buildings, art, and more. In fact, every man-made thing that exists was an idea before it was brought into reality. This fact applies to things as small as paper clips to things as large as civilizations. You gain real power when you explicitly know how to turn thoughts into things.

Turning thoughts into things does not require machinations, deception, or dishonesty. All such dishonesty only leads to long-term failure. Why is this so? Because dishonesty contradicts reality and the nature of conscious beings. The inescapable result of contradicting reality is the failure to turn thoughts into things.

When you use the mind of a winner to turn thoughts into things, you will amaze yourself and others. You will knowingly turn your thoughts into things. You gain real power when you become aware of this process.

Look at a young person for example. He wants a career and a family life, but he does not have these things. So he goes to college and earns a degree. Afterward, he gets a job in the field he chose. Then he enters into a love relationship with a girl he admires. They get married. Together they buy a house, cars, furniture, appliances, and so on. During the course of this young man's life, he wants certain things and he gets them. The same is true for his wife. There is a system they are implicitly following, but they, like most people, are not explicitly aware of this system. They simply have a desire and then fulfill it. You, with the mind of a winner, take the next step toward turning your thoughts into things. You become conscious of your thought processes and how to convert them into things.

The young people described above want a house and they get it. They want two cars and they get them. They want a vacation and they get it. But all the while they do not grasp that there is a system at work here. If they grasped this system, they can use it to get whatever they want. Unfortunately, they do not grasp this system. Thus, they never experience the boundless prosperity available from life. You can overcome this limitation. By grasping this system, you can tap into the unlimited prosperity available to all conscious beings. You can have whatever you want.

The key to the system of turning thoughts into things is having non-contradictory goals. Yet, goals by themselves are not enough. You need to combine goals with the honest integrating mind. Using this powerful integrating mind, you look at things from a larger-than-life perspective. You see the big picture. In your mind you picture what you want. You imagine the details of your desired goal as if it already existed. In your mind you can see, hear, smell, taste, and touch your goal. Your imagination produces a vivid scene of your goal as if it were completed. Such a goal is not a small one like a new coat or new shoes, although these can be used to practice the art of turning thoughts into things. With the honest integrating mind, you combine vast ranges of concepts. Thus, you visualize larger-than-life goals. Then, after you see how everything comes together, you break these goals down into sub-goals. You end up with multiple goals, each being small enough to actualize or give form to in reality.

Next, you assign a time limit on each of these sub-goals. Since the sub-goals are interrelated to your main goal, your main goal will determine the time limits for each sub-goal. Then you think about what you need to do to achieve each sub-goal. That is, you break each sub-goal down into workable steps. As stated earlier, you then put these steps in appropriate time slots in your schedule. In essence, what you are doing is working backwards; you are beginning with the end in mind. You lay out the specific, concrete action steps in your schedule. Then as each day arrives, you simply accomplish each task that is listed for that day. If you do this every day, there is no way you can fail to turn your thoughts into things. This is a timeless principle that works for all people at all times. The best way to use this system is to start with small goals. Doing so enables you to become familiar with this system and not become overwhelmed by it. Once you feel comfortable with this system, you can advance to larger, more complex goals.

This system of turning thoughts into things works with anything. You can use this system to build a business empire or develop yourself or produce a series of paintings or whatever you want, as long as it does not contradict reality. This system, once mastered, is so efficacious that you will never want to leave it. As you get better at using this system, it becomes easier and more enjoyable to use. You can then turn your thoughts into things in less time and with greater efficiency.

For example, suppose you want to change your life completely. Perhaps you no longer experience happiness in your current lifestyle. You know that achieving abiding happiness is very important to you, but your life is arranged so that you rarely, if ever, experience it. You just go through the motions of living. Enthusiasm, joy, and pleasure are almost gone. You feel as if there is nothing worth living for--nothing you can get really excited about. Sadly, many people feel like this.

So you decide to change your life. This is a monumental task with huge risks inherent in it. What can you do? How can you bring this thought into reality?

You find a quiet place where you can think without interruption. After relaxing your mind and body for a few minutes, you look at the big picture of your life. You determine where you have been and where you are now in life. Reflection will provide you with this information. Next, you list your assets and liabilities, your strengths and weaknesses, and your likes and dislikes. This information is the basis for determining where you want to go in life. As you increase your self-knowledge, your level of self-confidence goes up.

Later, you can use this knowledge to direct your imagination. You allow your subconscious to run freely for a while and you remain aware of its images. Perhaps you see yourself living and working in a different part of the world. You may even see yourself in a new career. Temporarily suspending judgment, you allow your subconscious to generate new images. Say you were an artist, but now you want to become a businessperson. You picture yourself, in clear detail, in your new lifestyle as an international business tycoon. You see what you are wearing and driving, where you are living and working, the type of work you are doing, and who you interact with. Remember, this is the creative stage. It is okay not to know how you will achieve these things.

After you have some ideas about what you would like your future to be, it is time to evaluate these ideas and make them workable. On a piece of paper you list the type of work you want to do, where you want to work and live, the type of people you want to be around, and so on. Here you need to do some research to find out if you really can do these things. For example, you check references books about business trends, occupations, places to live, etc. You compare this factual data with the visions of your future and modify your plans accordingly.

Now you have a general idea about how you are going to change your life. Since your plans are backed by facts, you feel confident about your future. The next step is to break each major action into tasks and attach deadlines to each one. For example, you set a deadline for when you will seek out new business opportunities. Then you put these tasks into your schedule according to their assigned deadlines. Again, as each day comes, you mechanically complete each task. Over time, you cannot help achieving your goals. Within a few years you will have brought the thought of changing your life into reality.

You really can develop the mind of a winner. By reading and listening to Leonard Peikoff's masterworks, you, too, can and will develop the mind of a winner. Those two products allow every conscious being to develop and use the mind of a winner. They are your fast-track ticket to the right-side up world that is now dawning on planet Earth.

In the mid 1980s, Anthony Robbins wrote his bestselling book Unlimited Power. A million people were exposed to the technique of "modeling" from his book. Modeling, Anthony Robbins explains in his book and audiotape program, is a technique that comes from neuro- linguistic programming. He explains that you can "model" the way a person thinks or acts to achieve similar results. Thus, if you find a successful person and you think and act as they do, you can duplicate their success.

So who in history had the mind of a winner? One person did; her name is Ayn Rand. She developed the mind of a winner and she revealed the functioning of this mind in her works. Now you can model the mind of a winner to capture limitless success.

In summary, you can develop the mind of a winner by removing the impurities from your mind and learning how the honest integrating mind functions. You advance into genuine power when you do these two things. You move beyond the competition as your peers and competitors remain crippled with their corroded minds. You leave that corroded mind behind forever when you develop the honest integrating mind. This enables you to outcompete all other minds: all mystical minds, criminal minds, and specialized minds. Eventually, everyone will have to dump the dishonest/disintegrating Plato mind and develop the honest/integrating Rand mind. Survival pressures will eventually drive everyone into developing the honest integrating mind--the mind of a winner. You will be among the first in history to develop the mind of a winner. You will command life on Earth.

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