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Perhaps this homely metaphor will suggest how to begin the practise of consecutive thinking, by which we mean _welding a number of separate thought-links into a chain that will hold_. Take one link at a time, see that each naturally belongs with the ones you link to it, and remember that a single missing link means _no chain_.

Thinking is the most fascinating and exhilarating of all mental exercises. Once realize that your opinion on a subject does not represent the choice you have made between what Dr. Cerebrum has written and Professor Cerebellum has said, but is the result of your own earnestly-applied brain-energy, and you will gain a confidence in your ability to speak on that subject that nothing will be able to shake. Your thought will have given you both power and reserve power.

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