The Science of Being Great
Wallace D. Wattles · 1911
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About the book
Wattles' third science, finished the year he died: greatness is not a gift but a procedure, open to anyone willing to think before acting. The same flat certainty as The Science of Getting Rich, aimed at character instead of cash.
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Part 1 · A football or a flowing spring. The first six slides, free.
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Wattles opens without warming up. There is, he says, a Principle of Power in every person, and by using it deliberately a person can grow in whatever direction she chooses. Nobody has yet found the limit.
His evidence is a strange kind of arithmetic. No one has ever become so great in any faculty that someone else could not become greater. Whatever the finest mind of an age achieved, it was never the ceiling, only the highest mark so far.
He also pulls apart two things we tend to blur. Talent can be a single faculty grown out of proportion to the rest. Genius is the person connected to a reserve of power larger than herself, which is why the great are always larger than their deeds.
Inside the course
12 parts- Any person may become great — the opening claimFree above
- Heredity and opportunity, dismissed as excuses
- The source of power, and how a person draws on it
- Consecration: deciding what you will no longer do
Questions
Is The Science of Being Great free to read in Astra Trainer?
Yes. The full book opens free in the app’s reader, in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian.
What is the short course?
12 short parts that walk through the book’s key ideas in slides, each with a quick quiz. The first six slides are free to try on this page.
Where do I get the app?
Astra Trainer is free on the App Store and Google Play. The Science of Being Great is waiting in the app’s library.
