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Today's podcast was edited and adapted from Secrets of Mental Supremacy by W.R. C. Latson, published in 1913.

The universe to us is but a projection of our own inner consciousness. Of all the powers of the mind, imagination is the most

picturesque, and in many respects, the most interesting. Without it, the world would be barren. Not merely

would there be no pictures, no music, no books, but there would be barren. Not merely would there be no pictures, no music, no books, but there would

be no houses, no bridges, no ocean liners, no great business enterprises. Nothing, in fact.

For everything that humanity has made was first conceived in the imagination before it was born into the world.

We cannot think of a person being without any power of imagination, for that is an impossibility.

But many, many people, I am sorry to say, are greatly deficient in

imagination, and this lack of imagination alone is enough to render them commonplace, uninteresting,

and of lesser use in the world. A man or woman may be deficient in imagination, and yet be honest, straightforward,

hard-working, conscientious, but for such a person, the higher rewards of life are hopelessly unattainable.

They may make an excellent bookkeeper, but never an accountant, a skillful typist, but never an author, a faithful bricklayer, but never a builder.

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