Welcome to Week Eleven of The Master Key System! Also, welcome to episode 15 of these Teleseminars. Who would have “thunk” that we’d make it to fifteen episodes?

We did. A big part of that has to do with what Haanel wrote in Week Four.

12. Unless you do this, you had better not start at all, because modern Psychology tells us that when we start something and do not complete it, or make a resolution and do not keep it, we are forming the habit of failure—absolute, ignominious failure. If you do not intend to do a thing, do not start. If you do start, see it through even if the heavens fall; if you make up your mind to do something, do it; let nothing, no one interfere; the “I” in you has determined, the thing is settled; the die is cast, there is no longer any argument.

‘Nuff said.

On to Week Eleven — “Inductive Reasoning and the Objective Mind.”

At first glance, this seems like a strange week. The ideas seem “out there.” There is no real exercise as we’ve become accustomed to them at the end of he chapter. Haanel seems to go on tangents.

That being said, there is a lot going on here this week, the main thrust of which can be summed in a story I related in The Master Key Workbook.

When President Kennedy decided in 1960 that the United States would put a man on the moon in ten years, most of the technology to accomplish the task was not yet available. The decision to set the goal—the belief in its possibility and the belief that it could be achieved—produced the necessary scientific and technological breakthroughs to make it possible, and the resulting spin-offs of these new technologies altered our lives for the better.

Or as Haanel instructed us so perfunctorily yet eloquently –

We are first to believe that our desire has already been fulfilled. Its accomplishment will then follow.

One question that I get asked a lot, both through www.masterkeycoaching.com and from my private clients, is, What is this inductive reasoning?

In the first three points, Haanel defines inductive reasoning.

* Inductive reasoning is the process of the objective mind by which we compare a number of separate instances with one another until we see the common factor that gives rise to them all.

* Induction proceeds by comparison of facts. It is this method of studying nature which has resulted in the discovery of a reign of law which has marked an epoch in human progress.

* It is the dividing line between superstition and intelligence. It has eliminated the elements of uncertainty and caprice from men’s lives and substituted law, reason, and certitude.

We all do this naturally to one degree or another. It’s what we do as human beings with our intelligence, our consciousness, our gift of reason. We look at the things around us and as we “figure them out,” we draw conclusions to tie things together, to make observations that will serve us in future endeavours.

Let’s look at the examples Haanel used.

8. It is our privilege to become conscious of the principle and act in accordance with it. Cuvier sees a tooth belonging to an extinct race of animals. This tooth wants a body for the performance of its function and it defines the peculiar body it stands in need of with such precision that Cuv...