YOU MUST USE YOUR THOUGHT AS DIRECTED in previous chapters and begin to do what you can do where you are, and you must do ALL that you can do where you are. You can advance only by being larger than your present place, and no one is larger than his present place that leaves undone any of the work pertaining to that place. Only those who more than fill their present places advance the world. If no one quite filled his present place, you can see that there must be a going backward in everything. Those who do not quite fill their present places are dead weight upon society, government, commerce, and industry. Others must carry them along at a great expense.  

Only those who do not fill the places they are holding slow the progress of the world. They belong to a former age and their tendency is toward degeneration. No society could advance if everyone was smaller than his place; the law of physical and mental evolution guides social evolution. In the animal world, evolution is caused by excess of life. When an organism has more life than can be expressed in the functions of its own plane, it develops the organs of a higher plane, and a new species is originated. There never would have been new species had there not been organisms that more than filled their places. The law is exactly the same for you: Your getting rich depends upon your applying this principle to your own affairs.