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ATKINSON - MASTER MIND: Mental Dominion for Peak Performance & Success – William Walker Atkinson
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- Mar 23, 2026
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Summary
(00:00:00) 1. The Master Mind (00:20:08) 2. The Mind Master (00:44:24) 3. The Slave Will and The Master Will (01:02:56) 4. Positive and Negative Mentality (01:20:57) 5. The Senses and Sensations (01:43:46) 6. Perception (02:12:42) 7. Attention (02:30:25) 8. The Mastery of Perception (02:55:58) 9. Exercises in Perception (03:22:47) 10. The Mastery of Emotion (03:53:17) 11. The Categories of Feeling (04:18:45) 12. The Mastery of Desire (04:51:10) 13. The Mastery of Thought (05:34:00) 14. Mastery of Reasoning (06:19:12) 15. Subconscious Mentality (07:08:43) 16. The Mastery of Will THE MASTER MIND: Mental Dominion for Peak Performance and Success – Escape the Slave Mentality and Develop Your Mental Power – William Walker Atkinson (1913). This Secrets of Success Podcast episode takes listeners on an in-depth exploration of William Walker Atkinson's influential 1913 masterpiece, The Master Mind: The Key to Mental Power Development & Efficiency . This classic bridges New Thought philosophy with practical, almost scientific psychology, offering a systematic roadmap to achieving true mental sovereignty. Atkinson firmly rejects passive mysticism or wishful thinking, instead presenting the mind as a trainable instrument whose untapped faculties—when disciplined—become the ultimate source of personal power, efficiency, and success. Central to the book's message is the stark contrast between the "mental slave"—the average person dominated by random thoughts, fleeting emotions, habitual reactions, and external circumstances—and the Master Mind, a consciously constructed state of inner harmony and directed force. Atkinson insists that everyone possesses the raw material for mastery; the difference lies in voluntary, persistent effort to cultivate control over feeling, thinking, a…