CHAPTER ONEYou Are Remarkable

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.

GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS, COLUMNIST, AUTHOR, AND PUBLISHER

YOU ARE A REMARKABLE PERSON who has extraordinary qualities. You have more talent and abilities than you could use in 100 lifetimes. What you can do with your life from this day forward is limited only by your own imagination.

Your brain contains about 100 billion neurons, each of which is connected to as many as twenty thousand other cells in a complex network of ganglia and dendrites. This means that the possible thoughts and combinations of thoughts that you could think would be equal to the number one followed by eight pages of zeros; this number is greater than all the molecules ...

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