One of the most common causes of defeat is despair due to temporary defeat. It is a habit of falling and giving up. Everyone makes this mistake from time to time.
RU Darby's uncle caught a 'gold craze' during the gold rush days and went west to find gold and become rich. in people's minds He had never heard that more gold was found than has been dug from the earth.
With a glowing ore after working hard for weeks had been rewarded. He needed a machine to bring the ore to the surface. He quietly closed the mine and returned to his home in Williamsburg, Maryland. He told his relatives and neighbors about the “mineral ore” he had found. all in one They got together and collected the money needed for the machine and put the machine there. they sent. Uncle and Darby are back in the mine. The first wagon extracted from the mine was sent to the mine liquidation. Conclusion, That they have one of the richest mineral deposits in Colorado. it was showing! A few wagons that were issued would pay off the debts. Big profits later would come.
Excavations have begun! Darby and his uncle's hopes are high! Then something happened. Gold her vein had disappeared! They had reached the end of the rainbow and the gold cube it wasn't there. They kept digging, desperately trying to find the vein again. they tried, but they were all empty.
In the end, they decided to give up.
They sold the machine to a scrap dealer for a few hundred dollars, got on the train and went back home. The scrap dealer called a mining engineer to look at the mine and did some calculations. made. The engineer said the project failed because the owners of the mines "misunderstood". He said they didn't know "veins". Calculations of vein darbys to dig it showed that he was a meter away from where he stopped! exactly as well found there.
The scrap dealer made millions of dollars from the ore in the mine, because without giving up he had thought of enlisting the help of an expert first.
After a long time, Darby discovers that desire can be turned into gold. Made up several times. His discovery came when he started selling life insurance. Remembering that he had lost a great fortune by standing a meter from his gold He took advantage of this experience in his chosen job. Do not stop yourself He said: “I stood a meter below him, but life insurance from people If they say 'no' when I ask them to buy it, I won't stop.”
Darby is a small group that sells over a million dollars a year in life insurance. went into it. The lesson that he learned his "determination" from his "giving up" in the gold prospecting business was in debt.
Napoleon Hill - "Think and Get Rich"
