8 Think Like a Genius Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don’t merely dream—but create! —Maxwell Maltz You are a potential genius.Your amazing brain has more than 18 bil- lion cells, each one of which is connected to and interlinked with as many as 20,000 others. This means that the number of possible thoughts you can think is greater than all the molecules in the known universe. You have the capacity to learn at incredible rates and to retain more information than you can even imagine. It is said that “when an educated person dies, it is as if a library burned down.”This potential library is contained between your ears. ■ THE ORIGINS OF WEALTH Throughout human history, value has been contained in land, la- bor, capital, furniture, fixtures, machinery, and other hard assets. Wars and revolutions have been fought over their control.The pri- mary