Here are a few words of advice, which if taken into account
will spare you many difficulties and much suffering in life. Soon after you
have put them into practice you will realize that they contain precise norms
for the exercise and benefit of your noble purposes.
In order to create time and accelerate results, you will
permanently need the help of the words I put forth with full awareness of their
efficacy. Consider them advanced payments of
valuable mental capital which you will surely accumulate through your own
effort.
Devote as much time as possible to study. Study with faith and
enthusiasm, thereby increasing your knowledge
day after day and predisposing yourself at the
same time to conserve this knowledge. This will require the attention and dedication that we
must always give to things that will be useful to us.
You should study earnestly and predispose your feelings so that studying fascinates you to the point where you gladly surrender to it. Do not interpret my words to mean that you should occupy yourself only with books. No, your study must undergo a process of permanent intellectual activity derived from the faculty of observation, which you may exercise at every moment and in all the environments that you frequent. Your life will then be a constant object of study. You will realize that no other study could be more beautiful than this.
The observations that you
make of your fellow man as well as of everything
around you will enable you to greatly improve yourself, correcting your
deficiencies and exalting your qualities. Thus, for instance, the good and
beautiful features that you detect in other people will be useful to help you
reproduce them in yourself. If, on the contrary, what you observe in them such as
their manners and conduct seems disagreeable to you, you can make good use of
this to ascertain the impression that you would have on others if you had the
same manners and conduct. Therefore, endeavor in every possible way and with
strong determination not to reproduce in yourself what may have had a bad
effect on you.
Your observations must be generous so that the fruit they
bear will be motivation that will help you and
your fellow man.
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*Excerpt from the book "Bases for Your Conduct"originally published in Spanish. Free Translation
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