Capital for a Lifetime: Personality Factors in Achieving Success and Wealth

Author: Orison Swett Marden
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Orison Swett Marden, an American author, has written numerous books filled with inspiring and motivating words for young people. His writings are incisive, precise, detailed, and never fail to engage readers. These works are known as motivational series and are widely celebrated by Americans. Boredom, negativity, pessimism, and apathy are prevalent among today's Chinese youth. Some have also argued that this condition is caused by objective living environments, so it is unlikely to improve in China's social context, and we cannot expect such conditions to disappear in the future. However, we believe that individual subjective efforts and changes in personal attitudes may still eliminate such conditions, at least reduce their prevalence. While the environment can shape our spirit, can't our spirit also shape the environment?