PART II, Chapter 2 Summary and Analysis

Chapter Two is the first chapter in Part II of Collier's book. Part II encompasses the Two Keys to Success; Ambition and Desire. Chapter Two in this part discusses exactly how to Arouse Strong Ambition.

Collier presents a psychological law that defines an intense mental hunger that comes to be seen as Ambition, that in order for adequate mental hunger for something to be manifested, first there must be an idea presented to the mind. He gives as an example, an ignorant man who works to till the soil with only a pointed stick. Once that ignorant man sees the steel plow and all the possibilities that the plow represents, only then does the first man develop the mental hunger for the new implement, he begins to wish for the new tool and a strange emotion comes...