Moods

A man on a country road asks a stranger how far it is to Chicago. Keep walking that way, he is told, and it is twenty-five thousand miles. Turn around, and it is a mile and a half. That is Elsie Lincoln Benedict's first move in How to Get Anything You Want, and it lands because you have been the man on the road. You set a goal. You made a plan. You worked the plan. And somehow you ended up further from the thing than when you started. ...

Most personal-development books tell you to think better. This one tells you something older and stranger: you do not think your life into being — you feel it into being. Elsie Lincoln Benedict wrote How to Get Anything You Want a hundred years ago, before Napoleon Hill, before Dale Carnegie, before the whole shelf you already own. Russell Brunson dug it back up. It is for the builder who keeps doing the right things, keeps getting the wrong results, and cannot work out why. ...