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financial success in my newly minted career.
    Like Housebreaking a Puppy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    —L EO T OLSTOY , R USSIAN NOVELIST
    If your brain is anything like mine (prone to procrastination, easily confused, and distractible), changing your mind can be downright challenging. I like to think of it like housebreaking a puppy.
    You just keep taking it back outside and showing it a different reality until finally it realizes, Wow, there’s a whole big world out there. And it’s a lot more fun to pee on trees and bushes and fire hydrants than on Pam’s ratty old house slippers. Your mind will be astonished by the beauty that’s available when you put it on the spot. Deep peace will appear. Great ideas will materialize and expand. Joy will rise up.
    The only thing you need do is devote your mind only to things you want. If you want peace, think of peace. If you want love, think of love. If you want Jimmy Choo pumps, think of Jimmy Choo pumps. Do not think about how peace looks impossible or that love seems fleeting or that there’s no money in your bank account for Jimmy Choo pumps. Keep your mind focused only on what you want. And anytime that puppy starts heading toward those slippers, pick it up and take it back outside.
    In the movie Man on Fire, Denzel Washington plays an ex-Special Forces operative who becomes a bodyguard to the young daughter of a wealthy Mexican businessman. Despite Denzel’s attempts to stay neutral and uninvolved, he ends up becoming a father figure to Pita, tutoring her with her homework and helping her gain a place on the swim team, an activity she loves more than the piano lessons her father insists upon. Over and over in their swim training, Denzel shouts out the same question: “Trained or untrained?” And Pita shouts back exuberantly, “Trained!”
    So I’ll repeat the question. Is your mind trained or untrained?
    And I hope you’ll soon be able to shout back, “Trained!”

“The greatest discovery and development of the coming years will be along spiritual lines. Here is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest power in the development of man and history, and yet we have been merely playing with it and have never seriously studied it as we have physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness and are of little use in making men and women creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of the spiritual forces. When this day comes, the world will see more advancement in one generation than it has in the past four.”
    —C HARLES P ROTEUS S TEINMETZ ,
INVENTOR OF THE ALTERNATING-CURRENT MOTOR

THE PRELIMINARIES
    “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
    —R ALPH W ALDO E MERSON , A MERICAN ESSAYIST
    You don’t need a white lab coat, carbon nanotubes, or even those unsightly protective goggles to conduct the following experiments. All you need is an open mind and the ability to observe, record your findings, and be willing to frame things in a new light.
    For those of you who flunked chemistry, let’s start with a refresher course.
    Science Basics
    “Nothing shocks me. I’m a scientist.”
    —O N A T- SHIRT BY DESIGNER J. B ERTRAND
    1. What exactly is science? According to Webster’s, science is “knowledge attained through study or practice.” It usually starts with a theory.
    2. Okay, so what’s a theory? To most of us, a theory is a vague and fuzzy fact. But when you talk about scientific theory, you’re talking about a conceptual framework that explains existing observations and predicts new ones. A theory is accepted, not based on the prestige or convincing powers of its proponent, but on the results obtained through observations and/or experiments that anyone can reproduce. For example, the theory of gravity can be proved by anyone, from a toddler jumping out