Chapter IX

Specialization means narrowing the mind; Diffusion

means mental shallowness: How Multiple Mentalism

Broadens and Deepens the Intelligence

The specialist has been defined as “a man who learns more and more about less and less, until he ends up by knowing everything about nothing at all!” By that same token, an all-around man --- jack of all trades --- general practitioner --- is “a man who learns less and less about more and more until he knows nothing whatsoever about everything there is”!

Multiple Mentalism enables you to avoid pitfalls. By developing your brain so that it becomes really observant, it broadens your knowledge of many varied subjects. By giving you the ability to see familiar things in brand new settings, it deepens your understanding of men, objects and occurrences. By arousing your latent power to think of many things simultaneously, it gives your mind versatility, poise and a firmer grasp of situations and problems. And by putting you in complete control of your brain, for the first time in your life, it makes it possible for you to remain, at will, oblivious to that in your environment which is worthless to you, and to become more fully appreciative of that around you which can be of help to you in your business, social or personal life.

To put it another way: You are rapidly becoming a well-rounded personality with a more competent, well-rounded intellect. You are well on your way to becoming truly outstanding among your associates; to attaining a prominence, because of your new-found mental capability, that will bring your speedy advancement in whatever you undertake. You are almost “over the hump” now, in the training contained in this course. A final spurt or two will carry you to the very zenith of mental ability! So, with the goal in sight, let’s go!

Exercise IX:

Once more, your exercise becomes more intricate than those which came before it. And, as before, you will find it easy, despite its greater intricacy, if you have been honest with yourself in practicing the preceding drill (No. VIII)

To begin Exercise IX, think of two sentences, each containing three or four short words. DON’T WRITE THEM IN THE NORMAL WAY. The very first time you touch the paper with your pencil, in this exercise, write you two sentences with their letters intermingled, thus:

G S I E R M L A S G L Y I A K L E P D S O Y L O L B S

which combines GIRLS LIKE DOLLS (spelled forward) with BOYS PLAY GAMES (spelled backwards)

This may stump you a bit at first, but it will soon become easy if you have practiced the first eight exercises faithfully. In about three-quarters of an hour, of your first hour’s drill, you will be writing short sentences this way almost without hesitation.

Tomorrow, take on four-word sentences, but keep the thoughts and words very short and simple at first. As short and simple as:

M T E A N E W O O T R S K T T N O A L W I O V H E W

which is merely MEN WORK TO LIVE (spelled forwards) combined with WHO WANTS TO EAT (spelled backwards).

Naturally, you cannot space the letters according to words --- but, as that would be unnecessary for a mind trained as yours now is, it is unimportant. You can readily understand what you are doing, without that.

Give at least an hour every day to this drill. Make your sentences longer and your words more difficult as you progress. You will find this one of the hardest drills in my training, but I assure you that it is also one of the most valuable. For the first time, you are making practically all of your brain cells work --- except, obviously, those which control your various physical activities.

In concluding this drill, I am going to make a new suggestion. I suggest that you take the mental processes involved in this exercise and deliberately apply them to some specific problem in your business or your home. Do not content yourself with merely calling the problem to mind, and hoping that the mental processes will take place automatically! Call them into play, consciously and deliberately. Turn the problem over and over in your mind. Twist it. Look at its various component parts forwards and backwards. Fit one into another and see how the new relationship affects them.

Do this --- and you will see, beyond all question or argument, how thoroughly practical this training is in fitting you to cope more advantageously with everyday affairs! You will find that the most stubborn problems do yield easily to this form of solution --- that the answer often pops into your head so quickly and easily that you are ashamed of not having thought of it long ago!

Multiple Mentalism is a $uccess course indeed. I no longer need tell you that. You must have realized it, yourself, several chapters back. You know now that it actually and literally means, “MORE POWER TO YOU”!

Multiple Mentalism Brain Stimulator: Acceleration Drill

Drill A

For this drill, use your daily newspaper. Read and study for a few moments a headline in your newspaper (a sentence containing 8 or 9 words) Now take a pencil and jumble the letters in each word as you write the sentence. try not to miss any of the letters. Then check back to see if you have made any mistakes. Do this, using new headlines each time, until it becomes easy for you. Example:

MORE RAIN NEEDED IN THE MIDWEST TO SAVE CROPS

Write:

REOM ANIR EDENED IN HTE DEWSIMT OT VASE OSPRC

You need not follow any set rule in jumbling the letters in the words. Write them so each word has no meaning in the manner that you spell it.

Continue on this drill --- you will find it fascinating and interesting.

Chapter X