Let your triumphs define you. There are two broad
types of triumphs, or rather two kinds of ability displayed in the achievement
of triumph by us. There is, first, the success either in big packages or small packages
which comes to the man who has in him the innate power to do what few other can
match; and what no amount of training, no determination or will power, will
enable any run of the mill man to do unless the urge is pure and unyielding. The
quality which the man possesses may be that which enables him to run a fifty
yards in six and three-fourth seconds, or to play twenty separate games of chess
at the same time blindfolded. No amount of training of body or mind would
enable any good ordinary man to perform any one of these accomplishments.
This is the most outstanding and
distinguishing kind of success and it can be attained only by the man who has
in him the quality which separates him in kind no less than in degree from his
fellows. But much the commoner type of success in every walk of life, in small
moments and in small packages. This kind of success is open to a voux populi,
if only they seriously determine to achieve it. It is the kind of success which
is open to the average man of sound body, intact insight and fair mind, who has
no remarkable mental or physical attributes, but who gets just as much as
possible in the way of work out of the aptitudes that he does possess. As it is
said popularly ‘every man must skin his own skunk’, we are the designers &
the architects of our successes.
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