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"I will now hunt for details and responsibilities in order to steadily take over my chosen mini-company. Before now, the ghostly word 'success', when it came right down to it, left me wondering 'what the heck do I do?' But now, I know exactly what to do."
I previously did not master and absorb responsibilities (i.e., opportunities) that went my way. So all growth had stopped, and all hope had ended as nothing positive happened. As a young man, stagnation had already mercilessly engulfed me. But all that now changed; opportunities kept flowing to me. More importantly, no longer a follower but now an initiator, I now created my own opportunities.
The next day my brother stopped by. As we sat down in the living room, I could not wait to talk: "Eric, I can now become anyone's 'fortune teller'. Let me tell you your future. It's easy. I just need to observe whether or not you leave behind leaders and discover self. I'll start off by telling you a story:
"Walter Chrysler, founder of Chrysler Corporation, first worked for a railroad line adjusting locomotive valves. An old veteran was training the young Walter Chrysler the highly complicated art of adjusting locomotive valves. But the old man liked drinking too much. One evening, the old man wanted to go drinking in town. In the middle of the job, he turned to Walter and said good-night and left for town. Surprised and confused, Walter was on his own with a pressing deadline. Adjusting locomotive valves was very complex, even for a veteran. But young Walter Chrysler did not panic. He dug into the nitty-gritty details like never before. He mastered and absorbed the giant responsibility that night. The young Chrysler's decision that night to dig into the details like never before and to master the responsibility of adjusting valves had planted the seeds of integrated thinking and self-leadership, which years later blossomed into Chrysler Corporation."
"Integrated thinking and the road to success now seems so readily attainable and so down-to-earth simple," my brother said. "Success actually requires nothing elusive. Success really all comes down to just the most simple thing: master the details and suck up responsibilities -- especially those responsibilities of my targeted mini-company."
"Precisely," I said, my hand dropping to my lap with a slap of finality. "And, you don't even have to leave your security. I know you have a family to feed. You don't have to do anything risky like start your own business. At work, just dig into the details and, as you say, 'suck up' the responsibilities. To show you how this process works at any level, let's say you're a construction worker. Well, you may ask skeptically, 'What big-time success could I possibly get as a physical laborer?' Easy to answer you: Just take over whatever responsibility falls in front of you; take over responsibilities and make them run on your own integrations. You'll become a Charlie Bannon before you know it. Charlie Bannon, by the way, is the main character in a book called Calumet K. By mastering and taking over nitty-gritty details and responsibilities, he quickly took control of large construction sites -- wealth-building jobs -- for the company that hired him. And once you become a Charlie Bannon, you'll eventually take charge of more. You could eventually become the president, or possibly start your own construction company. As you get hooked on integrated thinking, you'll never stop absorbing integrated knowledge and may someday become a real-estate magnate. Start off as a construction worker and end up as a Donald Trump! But the key is: whatever detail or responsibility falls in front of you, master it! And keep in mind a clear plan -- a clear target -- to take over the basic responsibilities that jell into exciting wealth-building jobs, like taking over construction sites. The sooner you take control of those basic responsibilities integrated by their wealth-building purpose, the sooner you build wealth and release the creativity now buried somewhere deep in your mind.
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