cases, you know WHY they have failed. Now, why don't you begin
where they have left off and find out how to succeed?"

The thought struck me like a bolt from a clear sky: "BEGIN WHERE
THE OTHERS LEAVE OFF AND FIND OUT HOW TO SUCCEED!" I kept saying
it over and over to myself, "Begin where the others leave off--
begin where the others leave off!"

This thought put high hope in my heart. It seemed to ring like a
call from afar. "Begin where the others leave off and find out how
to succeed." I kept thinking about that all the way home. I
thought of it at the table that evening. I said nothing. I went to
bed--but I didn't go to sleep, for singing through my brain was
that sentence, "Begin where the others leave off and find out how
to succeed!"

Right then and there I made the resolve that resulted in my curing
myself. "I WILL do it," I said, "I will begin where the others
leave off--and I WILL SUCCEED!!" Then and there I determined to
master the principles of speech, to chart the methods that had
been used by others, to find their defects, to locate the cause of
stammering, to find out how to remove that cause and remove it
from myself, so that I, like the others whom I so envied, could
talk freely and fluently.

That resolution--that determination which first fired me that
evening never left me. It marked the turning point in my whole
life. I was no longer dependent upon others, no longer looking to
physicians or elocution teachers or hypnotists to cure me of
stammering. I was looking to myself. If I was to be cured, then I