You are an unusual person if you never came to what seemed to be a stone wall that stood between you and achievement.
Lately I have been studying the lives of Lincoln, Socrates, Plato, Napoleon and some of the more modern men of achievement, and it encourages me to discover that every one of these men found not one, but many such stone walls between him and his goal.
In my own somewhat commonplace career I have encountered many of these stone walls. When I see one of them in front of me I walk up to it and test it was a hammer to make sure that it is not made of mere clay. If I find it to be real stone I then bring up a step-ladder and proceed to climb over it. If I find a spiked fence on top I climb down again and proceed to the right, believing that the wall cannot possibly extend around the earth. If I find the way blocked I turn to the left, hoping to find a passage-way in that direction. If I find the road blocked in that direction I then begin to dig a tunnel under the wall, for it blocks my pathway to achievement and I have to pass!
If I find the wall built on solid rock and no tunnel is possible I then resort to the last means of disposing of the wall, by applying a strong charge of TNT and blowing the thing out of the way. The TNT is also known under another name--Persistence, the twelfth rung of the Magic Ladder to Success.
Source: Napoleon Hill's Magazine. May-June, 1923. Pg. 12.
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