7.  Your Evolution

When will improvement become noticeable?

To others, almost immediately. To yourself, not quite as quickly.

There is a trap here. You might become impatient and dissatisfied with the speed of your development. I did at several stages. What you will notice is that friends and relatives will begin looking at you differently and that strangers will show you a new respect and tend to willingly do what you ask.

Don't push it in this area. Stay humble unless you have immediate ambitions that require you to have followers. At three stages the calling to become a religious leader will be almost irresistible. Avoid that calling until you have developed enough to understand what religion really is and why it has existed since caveman days. Think about it and learn much, much more before acting.

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