Well I’ll tell you how it works as far as we know. Now to do this I want to tell you about a situation that parallels the human mind.  Suppose a farmer has some land. And it’s good fertile land. Now the land gives the farmer a choice. He may plant in that land whatever he chooses. The land doesn’t care. It’s up to the farmer to make the decision.  Now remember we are comparing the human mind with the land because, the mind, like the land, doesn’t care what you plant in it. It will return what you plant, but it doesn’t care what you plant.  Now let’s say that the farmer has two seeds in his hand: one is a seed of corn, the other is nightshade, a deadly poison. He digs two little holes in the earth and he plants both seeds, one corn, the other nightshade. He covers up the holes, waters, and takes care of the land.  And what will happen? Invariably, the land will return what is planted. As it’s written in the Bible, “As ye sow, so shall ye reap.”  Remember, the land doesn’t care. It will return poison in just as wonderful abundance as it will corn. So up come the two plants – one corn, one poison.Now the human mind is far more fertile, far more incredible and mysterious than the land, but it works the same way. It doesn’t care what we plant success… failure. A concrete, worthwhile goal or confusion, misunderstanding, fear, anxiety, and so on. But what we plant it will return to us.You see the human mind is the last great unexplored continent on the earth. It contains riches beyond our wildest dreams. It will return anything we want to plant.Now you might say, well if that’s true, why don’t people use their minds more?Well I think they’ve figured out an answer to that one too.Our mind comes as standard equipment at birth. It’s free. And things that are given to us for nothing, we place little value on. Things that we pay money for, we value. The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free: our mind, our soul, our body, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends. All these priceless possessions are free.But the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be replaced at any time.A good man can be completely wiped out and make another fortune. He can do that several times. Even if our home burns down, we can rebuild it. But the things we got for nothing, we can never replace.The human mind isn’t used merely because we take it for granted. “Familiarity breeds contempt”. It can do any kind of job we assign to it, but generally speaking, we use it for little jobs instead of big important ones.Universities have proved that most of us are operating on about 10% of our abilities.Decide now. What is it you want? Plant your goal in your mind. It’s the most important decision you’ll ever make in your entire life.Links:   Ep. 49 - The Strangest Secret in the WorldToday's episode is a brief snipped from an audio recording of The Strangest Secret in the World, by Earl Nightengale - and comes to you after some technical difficulties this morning upon arrival at the day job.  Please enjoy this audio clip and the link above to the past episode. Support the showBecome a Patreon of the Show! ➡️ patreon.com/allaroundgrowth